Don’t Drop The Ball: Be There For Steve Bartman Night

Society loves to keep reminding you of pathetic failures. It’s why Daniel Tosh has so much success with Web Redemptions, why Bill Buckner gets to make fun of himself 25 years later on an episode of “Curb” and why the Kardashians are on every magazine cover. Hell, we’d still be celebrating Merkle’s Boner with Minor League Baseball promotions if “boner” hadn’t turned into something sinister over the last hundred years. The Dayton Gems are members of the Central Hockey League and good citizens, so they’re holding “Salute to Steve Bartman Night”, a come-as-you’re-glad-you-aren’t event on Oct. 14 at the Cassano’s Italian Ice at Hara Arena to celebrate the poor Cubs fan who jinxed and ruined the team forever by catching a ball meant for the glove of Moises Alou, giving the Cubs a great reason to explain their failures outside of “we’re the Cubs and we always f**k up at baseball”. The details, by way of ...