A Coors Field grounds crew member learned difficult lessons about coordination and teamwork when he was overtaken by the tarp during Tuesday night’s Rockies/Mets rain delay and his crew just kept on jogging. The most surprising thing is that it was a grounds crew guy and not one of the actual Mets. The video tells you what you need to know, but the USA Today write-up is awesome, and features an AP beat writer morphing into E.B. White and going for the Newberry Medal for Blooper Reports.
The man tripped while helping to pull the tarp over the infield and was quickly smothered as the rest of the crew continued on. Once the tarp was flush, he crawled his way out to safety and smiled.
The crowd, which was retreating to the concourse as rain and lightning arrived in the bottom of the seventh inning, cheered as the man crawled out from under the white tarp like a mouse sneaking out from under the bed sheets.
The guy who copy and pasted the story over to HuffPo did an even worse job editorializing:
