With all due respect to one of our most beloved national holidays, for the Los Angeles Angels and their long-suffering fans, it’s Independence Day.Independence from owner Arte Moreno, who, in no particular order, wrecked the franchise in the following ways:• Presiding over 11 straight losing seasons.• Conceding Los Angeles to the Dodgers, transforming a club in one of the game’s largest markets into an industry punchline.• Failing to win with Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, ultimately losing Ohtani in free agency and never even winning a postseason game with Trout.Tuesday’s shocking announcement – Moreno’s sale of the club for a record $4 billion to Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke, pending Major League Baseball approval – was a watershed moment not only for the Angels and their fans, but also the entire sport.Kroenke, 79, is considered in the upper echelon of NFL owners, spending the necessary money, hiring top executives and coaches, granting them autonomy. But really, almost any billionaire would have been an upgrade.Why Angels fans should be rejoicing after the team is soldAndy McCulloughMoreno, 80, bought the Angels in 2003, the year after the team won their only World Series title. The Angels reached the postseason in five of his first six full seasons, but since 2010 have made only one playoff appearance – in Trout’s third year, 2014.When Moreno spent big (Josh Hamilton, Anthony Rendon, Albert Pujols for the second half of his career), it often went badly. He ran through six heads of baseball operations, almost all of whom functioned largely at his whim. The team also is on its fifth manager since Mike Scioscia’s retirement after the 2018 season.The Angels continually failed to face the reality of their place in the baseball universe under Moreno, both declining to rebuild and declining to take the necessary steps to win. Under Kroenke, they presumably will operate more coherently. How could they not?Here’s a quick look at what the sale figures to mean, for interim general manager John Mozeliak, free agency and Trout, for the upcoming labor battle, franchise values and Angels fans.MozeliakKroenke will have the right to hire his own man, but Mozeliak looms as an obvious choice to remain in his present role, if not an expanded one as president of baseball operations.Moreno hired Mozeliak only last June, and for only six months. The difference with Mozeliak was that, unlike his four predecessors, he was not a first-timer in the job. He previously ran the St. Louis Cardinals for 19 years, and Moreno allowed him to operate with more latitude than his previous top baseball execs.