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WOW! What A Night

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Came home from a friends house last night.. sat down and within 5 minutes saw the Braves lose. So I flip over and caught the end of the Sox and Papelbon grooving belt-high fastballs. They cut to Tampa and boom, homerun. This was all in about what, 10-15 minutes real-time? Unreal.
 
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Bucklion;2001324; said:
Not disputing the stuck it to them part, obviously that happened in spades, and I know it's en vogue to hate Cubs fans, but...do you really think that Wrigley is the ONLY ballpark where Bartman would have caught hell that night as the game slipped away? I'm not talking about the stuff that happened in the days and weeks after, that's on Cubs fans, but I can't imagine that if Bartman had done that in Boston or Philly that he would have been treated any differently...and possibly worse...at the park.
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I saw that 30-on-30 show on Bartman the other night. It was Harry Caray's restaurant that blew up the ball, it was on live TV when they did that to supposedly break the curse.

The weird thing about the whole Bartman incident for me was that during the game, in about the 3rd or 4th inning, I remember thinking that there are extra seats for the playoffs and the people that buy the tickets aren't the real baseball fans, and they wouldn't be bright enough to know whether or not to try a catch a foul ball above the edge of their seats.

I said to myself "the Cubs radio announcers should tell the people at the ballpark not to go for a ball if the Cubs are in the field". I know that the radio broadcast was on a 7-second delay, and they couldn't have warned somebody when the ball was in the air, but if they had said something ahead of time it might have made people think about it and realize what they were doing. Especially a guy with headphones on listening to the game. Having had that thought earlier in the same game, that the radio announcers should tell the fans to not bother Cub fielders, made it very strange for me when Bartman interfered with Alou trying to catch the ball.

I do believe it actually was fan interference, since the ball was still above the field, and not above the wall or the stands when Bartman touched it. But getting the umps to make that call without being able to use instant replay on such a play just wasn't going to happen. Alou made the situation worse by over-reacting to not being able to make the catch. That caused the dynamics to change, and was the beginning of the shift in momentum.

As the movie pointed out, Bartman became the scapegoat just like Buckner, when guys like Alex Gonzalez (dropping the double-play ball for the Cubs), and BoSox pitchers like Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley should get just as much of the blame.
 
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