Steve Bartman’s life is apparently to be forever linked to that damn foul ball. And I don’t know who is more burdened by it: Cubs fans or Bartman, himself.
Ok, it’s probably Bartman. But it’s still pretty annoying.
ESPN announced Wednesday that it has commissioned a one-hour documentary on Bartman, the Cubs fan whose attempt to catch a foul ball late in Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship series was cast as some kind of catalyst in the long-hamstrung team’s eventual collapse that year.
The revisiting of the Bartman incident and a look at its ugly legacy by Alex Gibney, writer-director of the Oscar-nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and the Academy Award-winning “Taxi to the Dark Side,” will be part of ESPN’s “30 for 30” series.
According to ESPN, Gibney will attempt to answer the question: Can Bartman ever forgive Chicago? Tower Ticker.
I suppose that’s more appropriate (or at least novel) than asking whether Chicago can ever forgive Bartman.
I’ve forgiven him, and I’m ready to move on. I recognize that it will always be a part of Cubs history, but that’s all it is now – history.