The Los Angeles Angels are no strangers to the movie business. Owned by the Walt Disney Company until 2003, they were immortalized as the team with heaven on its side in 1994’s “Angels in the Outfield.” With its transparently preposterous premise and over-the-top winged interlopers, it was a family friendly flick that came with a tagline, “It could happen.”
That has, unfortunately, been about as much as you could say about the real-life Angels’ playoff hopes in recent years despite employing Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani.
But this year, finally, it seems the Angels have absorbed a useful lesson that might put them back in the playoffs, one that was emanating from “Angels in the Outfield” this whole time.