This is exactly why I don’t root for the Cubs. He broke the rules, and now gets a reward. One of the firmest rules of baseball is: goats are forever. Ask Buckner who forgave him. Ask Fred Merkle. Ask Ralph Terry. Ask Mickey Owen. Ask Roger Peckinpaugh. Neftali Feliz. Lonnie Smith. Curt Flood. There’s no forgiveness, as it should be.
The real goats were the Cub’s players.
They’re the ones that folded and lost the game, not Bartman.
There’s a difference. Every one of the players you mentioned were just that... players. Bartman wasn’t a player. He was a spectator, and he broken no rule. He did what every other fan would have done. He was going for a foul ball.
Players have public forums to defend themselves. Bartman didn’t. He had to put up with the media onslaught alone. He couldn’t let his play speak for him.
Oh, and Buckner? No forgiveness in baseball?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8LGeZhR6c0
Leave it alone....it’s been years...that hate is going to burn you up.
Go Marlins! 2003 World Series Champions! They beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in Game 6 to win it all, but they had to dismiss the Cubs first in the NLCS...
The Red Sox,and fans,forgave Buckner in 2008.
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what rule did he break ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq8G81oOHhY
Alou didn’t jump into the stands like the article said.
I think Alou could have caught the ball.
The guy in gray was just as much a PITA as Bartman.
Bartman just happened to touch the ball.
He broke a “rule” you see broken CONSTANTLY. Fans get in the moment and grab at balls they shouldn’t. Today 3 or 4 people will do exactly what he did and nobody will care because it’s the regular season. The guy’s been hounded for over a decade, he’s had death threats, he had to move away. Meanwhile the Cubs played like crap that game and lost because of what they did, not what he did. It’s way past time for the world to move on, for him and the rest of your list.