[ServesURight]

THAT STUPID FAN OUGHTA HANG HIS HEAD IN SHAME

CUBS DESERVE TO LOSE WITH THEIR IDIOTIC FANS WHO INTERFERE WITH THE GAME

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Make your statement.

[RWR8189]

Dust is pissed and demoralized.

Cubs loose tomarrow, see you all in 2061.

[CougarGA7]

This is really too bad. I'm not much of a baseball fan, but I do know that if the World Series is a Yankee - Marlin series the rating will be significantly lower than it will be if the Cubs or the Sox are in it. If both are in the ratings will probably be through the roof.

[Uncle Hal]

The curse of the goat.

[Chummy]

THAT FAN has been described as a "die hard Cubs fan" (and has now been identified in a local newspaper, by name and place of employment).

THAT FAN is not a "die hard Cubs fan."

He's a moron, a selfish, me-first idiot who gave no regard to anyone or anything but himself.

You don't sit in the front row of a ballpark without realizing you've a high probability of being near or part of the action.

You don't sit at Wrigley Field with headphones on, tuning out the game and the fans and the ballpark around you.

Said in the newspaper article to be a coach of an elite youth league team, apparently to underscore his knowledge of the game and presumed game awareness, this guy could only have been thinking of one thing -- a $12 souvenir on his mantle -- as he would have followed the arc of the ball in flight without paying any attention to where he was sitting, or the rapidly approaching Moises Alou. Without the headphones, THAT FAN would have heard Alou, heard others that the game was swiftly hurtling toward him.

Maybe had this diehard Cubs fan been around in '69, maybe if he had some perception of what 58 years (more than twice his age) feels like, maybe then he'd have realized more what winning last night meant to legions of Cubs fans everywhere. Maybe he ought to take a gander at the Chicago Tribune photo online of the 9-year old boy moments after the game with his Dad, the pair traveling from Kansas to see the Cubs take their first NL flag in nearly sixty years to see what his selfishness caused.

What's overlooked is his interference with the game resulted in the Marlins' Luis Castillo to remain alive, and to get on base with a walk on the next pitch. There would have been two outs in the eighth, runner in scoring position. Then it's anyone's guess what Pudge does, as the situation is different with a runner on second, two out, visitors down by three late in the game.

Feel sorry for him? Whatever happened to taking responsibility for one's actions?

[jmaroneps37]

"BAH! BAH!" billy goat, October 14, 2003.