It's 2008, the Cubs are the top team in baseball, and after 5 years people are starting to forget about Steve Bartman. And that was even before
Moises Alou's comments (just a few months ago) saying that even if Bartman didn't interfere with the ball he wouldn't have caught that infamous foul ball in the 2003 NLCS. Bartman was even planning on applying for a job this summer and moving out of his grandmother's basement this off season! All's well that ends well, right? Wrong.
"Everywhere I play, even now, people still yell, 'Bartman! Bartman!' I feel really bad," Litke (AP Columnist) quoted Alou as saying in March. "You know what the funny thing is? I wouldn't have caught it anyway."
Litke wrote that Alou, now with the
New York Mets, told him this when he ran into him last summer at a department store. But Alou said last week that he did not recall telling Litke that.
"I don't remember that,'' he said, according to the Post. "If I said that, I was probably joking to make [Bartman] feel better. But I don't remember saying that.''
Poor Steve Bartman. Moises won't let this story die. He really has it out for the guy, eh? Perhaps one fine day The Cubs will win the World Series and Bartman will be let off the hook. Maybe he can even through out the first pitch, like Bill Buckner in Boston? No? Ok, maybe not that much redemption but the guy deserves to see the light of day again.