It's time for sincere apologies to Bartman -- Sports, Wrigley F...

I wish Ozzie Guillen would have publicly spanked Lord Voldemort back when Voldy was whining about his safety in the Sox clubhouse. Can anyone name anyone who admits to liking that hack? And about the Bartman game, I distinctly remember a video clip of a certain Cubs fan who was ripping Bartman a new one and suggesting something akin to jail time for him. That fan? Our esteemed Governor Blagojevich. Great guy, that guv.

How about we apologize to Bartman by not mentioning him in pointless sports columns.

Bartman is hero to many others in this city. Hope he embraces his fame. Back Mr. PIPI-Hands said he was 99.98% sure he would've caught that ball. Laughable Losers!!!!!!!

Mr. Morrisey - please avoid sitting down the lines at any future Cubs' playoff games. How is it "instinctive" to reach for a pop foul ball? Bartman had a good 5 seconds to determine whether or not he was going to reach for that foul ball. Instincts had nothing to do with it. The bottom line is Bartman (and the others that were going after the foul ball) are simply not true fans and would not have put their interests over the team's if they were. I've seen the replay a hundred times as well and Alou had an excellent chance of making the play. Alou is just being a good guy at this point and trying to get some of the heat off of the guy.

stop lieing to yourself. you think they had so much time to react because the replays were in sllllooowwww motion. anyone in that situation would reach for that ball. your boy alou didnt have a chance at it. its not bartmans fault that the scrubs are having their 100th this year. maybe it was the error made after that play... any who hope the next 100 years were as fun as the first!!!

Steve Bartman is not owed an apology from Cubs fans. Alou was nice to try and get him off the hook, but Bartman still owns part of the blame for the Cubs loss in Game 6. Yes, Mark Prior should have been pulled and Gonzalez's error hurt just as much. But Bartman played a big part too. For that reason, he owes us an apology.

Chicago sports fans are used to their teams letting them down. Fans don't have the same excuse.

Bartman owes you nothing.

He wasn't the only fan reaching for that foul ball. He just jad the misfortune of being the closest one.

Anyone knows, if the ball sails into the stands, it's fair game for the fans. It's codified in the rule book.

If you want to vent, do so at Mark Prior for losing his poise, as well as the whole Cubs team, at that time. After all, it wasn't Steve Bartman who gave up all those runs.

Excuses, excuses.

Jay wrote:

I wish Ozzie Guillen would have publicly spanked Lord Voldemort back when Voldy was whining about his safety in the Sox clubhouse. Can anyone name anyone who admits to liking that hack?

People like him for the same reason people like Rush Bimbaugh or Ann Smolder - they say or write such stupid, brainless, idiotic things that it generates ratings.

Anyone watching the replay - especially 1000 times - knows that the ball was heading right for the webbing of Alou's glove during his jump. He either catches it or he's admitting that he would have botched it off of his glove. Given that he pees on his hands to soften them up, I would still put money on him making the catch.

But who cares about this anymore anyway? I'm a Cubs fan, they lost, I'm over it. 1 out does not equal 189. And I wouldn't recognize Bartman on the street unless he was wearing a Cubs hat, green turtleneck, headphones, and the same glasses. So if he fears going out into public, he's got a bit of an ego problem. I regret taking the time to read this article.

Stoney wrote:

And I wouldn't recognize Bartman on the street unless he was wearing a Cubs hat, green turtleneck, headphones, and the same glasses. So if he fears going out into public, he's got a bit of an ego problem. I regret taking the time to read this article.

Well put.

Anyone as unaware of their surroundings and engrossed in their headphones at a public event as this guy was deserves no apology. If he was at HOME listening to the game, it's not an issue.

This might be probably one of the dumbest columns I've ever read in sports!

I was at Murphy's Bleachers during game 6, when a man named Steve Bartman entered my life. Its not him personally, but the name says it all.
Obviously, if he didn't touch it, 20 other people had their hands ready. Its the principle.

My questions to this dumb columnist is why did Moises get so upset in the first place? What was Prior all upset about? Why didn't Baker have a mound visit? What about A-Gonz?
When I think of "Bartman", all of these things run through my mind.

What about "Buckner"? Is he allowed back into Fenway yet? Until the Cubs DO win the World Series, everyone is going to have to face it they will have to continually hear about Bartmans, black cats, goats, etc!

It will all just be that much sweeter when the Cubs finally do win the world series! The end of the biggest drought in the history of sports, will be the greatest continual party in the history of sports! That's when Wrigley will be re-built! At that time it will be the best time to ever be a Cubs fan!

I felt a little taste of it with 5 outs to go. The best game of my life, quickly turned into a "funeral procession" back to the trains.

to Not apologizing;

Bartman *did* apologize.

Hey, the past is the past. Unless, of course 100 years go by then something remarkable happens, you become enveloped in the importance of it all. Realize this, the Cubs got to the series in the 40s (when the rest of the World was at War); 1969 was the year until the kids named Seaver, Ryan, Koosman and Tim Mcgraws dad made "us believe"; the incompetence on the field that followed a foul ball down the line can only be squarely placed on a team that went cold (on that dark night in Chicago).

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Cub fans are a bunch of pathetic losers. Even if Alou could've caught the ball, he didn't. The ump did not call fan interference on Bartman. The game goes on. It was Alou's job to act like a professional and go back to left field, but instead he acted like a friggin' little leaguer. Prior had a melt down and to this day he hasn't recovered. Their lousy shortstop blew a tailor-made double play. Their terrible manager with a toothpick in his mouth at all times just sat in the dugout like a bump on a log. Worthless. And all you Cub fans just like to blame an innocent fan instead of owning up to the fact that the Cubs are the worst sports franchise in the country. I'm glad this column focused on Voldemort at the Sun-Times. Voldemort is nothing more than a brainless, loyal Cub fan, who hates the Sox and announces it every chance he gets, but refuses to face reality and instead points the finger at a Cub fan who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time instead of pointing the finger where it belongs: at Cub management which, every friggin' year, puts a crap team on the field. Yeah, the Cubs get some players with good statistics, but too many of them lack character. Moises Alou is one of those players who put up good numbers but lacks character. If he would've simply done his job and gone back to left field where he belonged, the Cubs may have gone to the World Series. That should've taught the Cubs a lesson to focus on and acquire character players, but it didn't. What did the Cubs do, they continued to pay for overpriced babies, like Soriano. Wake up Cub fans and face reality!

I'm along the same lines as Brian. I think for me and many others who were at game 6, Bartman represented years of Cubs' futility, couple with that sinking feeling everyone in Wrigley got that night when Marlin after Marlin crossed home plate in the 8th. What transpired after that foul ball was a perfect storm of Cubness as has been previously mentioned. The most important and glaring issue for me was and always will be knowing how incompetent of a manager Dusty Baker was. Did not calm his young ace after Alou's over-the-top reaction, misused his pitchers all year, and refused to use a starter out of the bullpen in the playoffs even when the season was on the line in games 6 and 7.Instead we got Dave Veres and Kyle Farnsworth when the season was on the line. A manager's job is pretty simple- manage pitchers and try and not interfere too much with the outcome via outdated standards like hit and run, sacrificing, and always bringing in your closer in the 9th no matter the game situtation. Baker was the epitome of poor Cubs management which would explain a century of failure. That poor sack in the first row was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Not apologizing wrote:

Steve Bartman is not owed an apology from Cubs fans. Alou was nice to try and get him off the hook, but Bartman still owns part of the blame for the Cubs loss in Game 6. Yes, Mark Prior should have been pulled and Gonzalez's error hurt just as much. But Bartman played a big part too. For that reason, he owes us an apology.
Chicago sports fans are used to their teams letting them down. Fans don't have the same excuse.

It seems to me that Bartman did apologize the very next day, but whining weenies like you are still dwelling on it 4 1/2 years later.

I loved Rick Morrissey's comment about Harry Caray's Restaurant Bartman Ball PUBLICITY. In regard to helping destroy Steve bartman's life, I see that Dutchie Caray is getting all bent out of shape over that idiot's impersonation of Harry
on the AT&T ads. All in good fun, RIGHT ?

I got a kick out of Careys wife being upset about the AT&T commercials, while her restaurant has been using Bartman for years.

No Bartman excuses?
You can't take them from Cub fans, that would be like taking the ivy out of Wrigley.