Posted on 10/16/2003 5:40:19 AM PDT by Rebelbase
By all indications, nobody at Wrigley Field during Game 6 of the National League Championship Series was rooting harder for the Cubs than Steven Bartman.
As a youth league and high school second baseman, Bartman's hero was Cubs infielder Ryne Sandberg. As a 26-year-old Northbrook resident, he was so passionate about baseball that he took time off from work to coach an elite youth team.
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I agree. A perfect way to ruin an amazing baseball season. What was it -- 17 or 18 teams in contention at the beginning of September, and we might end up with a World Series between a) a team that dominates the league virtually year after year due to the owner's financial largesse, and b) a team that probably 75% of the people who live in the city which hosts it don't care about?
Yanks vs. Marlins. BFD.
Go Sox.
Good guess. I looked it up. The Tribune Co. is parent of Long Island's Newsday, as well as the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
A little more perspective: Those who operate abortuaries. They are the ones who should be public enemy #1, not some young basefall fan caught up in the moment.
He'll have to live with this the rest of his life. Anything else is piling on.
In all, I'd say it's been a sad year for baseball.
PS: Bill clinton warned Bush that this would happen.
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