Rod Carew made it clear there is no love lost between himself and Arte Moreno, calling Tuesday's announcement that the Angels owner is exploring the possibility of selling the franchise "happy news," on Twitter, a development that gave him "renewed hope that my relationship with the Angels can be fully restored."
But Carew's animus toward the organization he played the final seven years of his 19-year Hall of Fame career with and spent eight years (1992-99) as the hitting coach for actually predates Moreno, who purchased the team from the Walt Disney Co. in 2003.
When Mike Scioscia took over as Angels manager in 2000 and brought in a new coaching staff, Carew arranged to spend part of spring training that season in Florida with the Minnesota Twins, the team he spent the first 12 years of his playing career with, and part of it in Tempe, Ariz., with the Angels.
