October 16, 2003
One baseball post.
After reading this great profile of unfortunate Cubs fan Steven Bartman, I've decided that he's getting a raw deal. This is what he had to say about his life-changing moment:
"I had my eyes glued on the approaching ball the entire time and was so caught up in the moment that I did not even see Moises Alou, much less that he may have had a play.... I am so truly sorry from the bottom of this Cub fan's broken heart."
How about instead of playing that gut-wrenching tape of him knocking the ball away from Alou, the major networks start playing tape of the fans who called for Bartman's "lynching" shortly afterwards? Because it's plainly in the public interest to identify these murderous fans and not the mild-mannered man who kept his eye on the ball.