Mischevious Angels in the Outfield

The Mets won last Thursday night 5-4 on a walk-off  bottom of the ninth Delgado single off the glove of elephan man who is now working for the Braves in the outfield. It was Chipper Jones' and the Braves last day at Shea, and that has to be a good thing. We've seen enough of Chipper and his men. But what is weird, is...well, I kept playing that video clip of Elephane's "error" over and over, and the ball never touches his glove, but seems to just change direction all my itself. I cannot get a freeze frame where the ball is actually near his glove. But its great watching him fall over as the Mets players go crazy running onto the field and hugging each other. And I'm not complaining about the victory that secured the Mets hold on first place, but what is going on out there?

Is it the ghost of recently departed Donn Clendenon moving the ball so Elephante can't catch it? Or is it real angels out there trying to help our poor Met subs win some games?  (See the movie Angels in the Outfield with Tony Danza as the washed up rag arm starter and Danny Glover as a mixture of Johnny Bench and Frank Robinson, the hot tempered manager. Its always the bench players who get heavenly help) Just think, with all the injuries on the Mets and Yankees, if they both won their leagues  and played each other in October, we'd have to call it the Substitute Series, instead of the Subway Series.

Anyway, it does seem like there are angels in the outfield at Shea,

pretty aggressive ones, pushing Elephante over like that. Donn Clendenon,The Train, a great player for the 1969 Mets, passed away late in 2006. I happen to know that he was highly interested in metaphysics and other worldly stuff. Maybe he's out there, trying to give Shea Stadium one more World Series. That would be quite a ghost story.