Foul Ball
10/15/2003 3:19 PM
I hate the Cubs...Check that I hate Cubs fans. Drunken, disposable cash spendin', corporate seat sittin' moron baseball fans. Everyone is talking about "the" play when some poor sap makes the "unforgivable" mistake of putting up his hands to catch a foul ball. I watched the game last night, which is surprising since baseball has really lost its appeal since 1989 for me. But the Cubs had a chance to make the series and it was a history-making event. I wanted to see it. I could really care less if the Yankees or the Marlins make it. It was an exciting game I really thought the Cubs would win it. Foul ball. Alou reaches in for a grab (which looked like and easy grab but then a BUNCH of hands reach up. BOINK! The ball drops and the inevitable scramble for the ball. It takes me a second to register all that’s happened then I say out loud "You dumb bastard...” Then the "friendly" confines of Wrigley Field explode. They rerun the replay over and over on TV and with every showing I feel worse and worse for the guy. They cut back to him...he stands with a shell-shocked expression as the debris floats around him. You see the foam from tossed beers in the air and you see them escort him out.
Certainly takes the glare off a 74-year-old man rumbling out of the dugout only to be jowl tossed by Martinez.

Welcome him to the Buckner wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A life that will be defined by one baseball play. I can't believe they've printed his name in the Chicago papers even Fox wised up and stopped running the replay. That ball 6 inches forward or backward and this guys life is different. I really feel for the guy...His only hope is that the Cubs win the World Series. Anything less and he's going to have to endure a lifetime of getting punched off barstools. Bud Selig should kiss him for it because all of America will be watching tonight.

What it really shows is the drunken idiocy of most Chicago Cubs fans. You want to blame someone blame Gonzalez for the error or the meat balls your pitcher gave the Marlins line up. Some call it the curse. I call it karma for the years you've dragged your obnoxious selves over the border and rail on Milwaukee fans in their own stadium.