Now? He can't do it until they win.
Can you imagine if he threw out first pitch of the NLCS and the Cubs go on to get swept? Opens the wound right back up.
But once the Cubs win all is forgiven by EVERYONE and he could safely resume his life, as a celebrity. Of course, any reasonable fan, myself included, never blamed him to begin with. Alou's fault for inciting, and fuck Alex Gonzalez for booting that DP ball.
Better Ideal would be if The Cubs can get to a deciding game in The World Series and be up by preferably just one run in the 9th for Theo & Joe to trot Bartman out the dugout to Pitch in relief. On absolutely no warmup. At all. To Close out the victory. If The Cubs would do that we'd be able to be Witness to the greatest sports moment ever.
No way you don't fully know that if someone would let you and I Manage Operations for a Baseball Team, at least be in Charge of Marketing/Promotions/Clenching Game in World Series Relief Pitching Decisions that the whole thing would turn out very well.
Very First thing I'd do, personally, is re-do that blowing up Disco Records deal, see if we could pull that off better, this time. Except I'd Blow Up something other than Disco Records cuz I actually really really like Classical Disco music, from the 70's.
Who doesn't?
Good points Alou definitely made it worse, a very high percentage(80-90%) of people would have tried to catch the ball thus interfering with the play and there's no guarantee Alou catches the ball anyway. What about all the BS, Cubs blew the game many times, the ground ball through Gonzalez legs at SS was one of the worst through the game.
Alou was featured on ESPN the other night in a seemingly waaaaay too long of a segment considering that the entire subject matter was how 80% of his life, his "Identity" is having been involved in that mashup with Steve Bartman.
Alou is made to autograph pictures of the play on a very very frequent basis, forced to answer the same question, about the play, just about constantly. Alou gets barraged with phone calls from guys writing articles about the play or just random guys asking "Hey are you the same guy that was involved in that play?" most of these calls in the middle of the night while he is sleeping cuz he lives in some other time zone than USA.Alou's life is, apparently, something of a Nightmare and its all Steve Bartman's fault.
The ESPN Report on this featured really sad background music, depressing camera angles, like, shot from below pointing upwards and subdued lighting of course. I only stayed watching it to see how long it would go on and it went on a really really long time.
