The Steve Bartman Incident brought the Cubs the 2016 World Series (The Butterfly Effect: VOL. 1)
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1 correction I would have made. In 2005, the Cubs traded Sosa to the Orioles not the Rangers. He went to the Rangers two years later.
i did. Very well made.
Are you secretly MatPat? I had flash backs of Avengers theories...
Go nata
Sammy Sosa was traded to the Orioles in 2005 for Jerry Hairston Jr. after that season Sosa would go on to the Rangers
When I watched how Steve bartman got treated after that play, made me feel so bad. I was really glad to hear that the Cubs gave him a ring just like the ones they gave the players
Maybe it’s just because I’m a bitter little man, but if I were Bartman I’d tell them what they could do with that ring.....
If I were him I would've thrown that into the ocean.
@@jpmnky nah man you gotta let go of that bitterness after that long. It just ruins your quality of life
I feel so bad for Steve Bartman. He looks so innocent and he was blamed for the entire cubs failure
The Cubs tried to right a wrong and gave him a 2016 WS ring.
Many of us Cubs fans have let go of that years ago. We realized it wasn't his fault and hope he forgives us for blaming him and how some treated him. It's not that we've forgiven him because he didn't do anything wrong to begin with, we hope he forgives us.
they also blamed a goat...a fucking goat.
milopop they didn’t blame a goat, we blamed the owner of the goat.
@@KMcNally117 oh wow, I didn't know they did that. Everyone was trying to catch that ball. It's a natural reaction. Most people don't keep their hands down and hope it doesn't hit them - you try to protect yourself and that means trying to catch the ball.
The birth of Bobby Bonilla Day led the Mets to winning two pennants and getting David Wright.
was wondering what other year besides 2000 almost completely forgot about the 2015 team
that 06 team was nasty
So did Beltran not swinging
@@stevenjeon8600 its funny that the 2015 mets also lost on a called 3rd strike
i was 1 when Bartman happened and 15 when they won it, i can’t imagine living 108 years and never seeing your team win it all.
good luck mariners fans.
orange224 I’m lowkey jealous of the 2016 cubs as a Yankees fan. The only playoffs I’ve experienced passionately are the 2017-19 runs. Losing to cheaters three years in a row.
@@HufflepuffBaseball42313 yankees ain't so innocent either buddy
Newt Scamander wow 27 World Series rings that so little 🤦🏻♂️Christ literally the Cleveland Indians haven’t won in over half a century so relax
Newt Scamander you also have almost half and hour of winning ws outs for the yankees
Mauricio Movilla I’m not saying were short on rings
I’m merely saying i would want to experience a drama-filled postseason like a Cubs fan did in 2016 where almost every game is neck and neck
Cubs traded Sosa to the Orioles, not the Rangers.
White Sox shoulda never traded Baines for that turd. Would the Sox have gotten as far as they did w/out Wilson Alvarez, I cant say for sure? But Harold Baines was WAY more clutch than George Bell.
Vaughn Mild no. one. asked.
The rangers were the senators and the orioles were the rangers back then
@@austinreese5553 no the Orioles have been the Orioles since 1954 lmfao. Before 1954 they were the Saint Louis Browns from 1902-1953. Been an Orioles fan my entire life.
I’m not a Cubs fan but that was the most emotional World Series I’ve ever watched
respect.
Hmmm. 2011?
Peter Parker don’t sleep on 2006
I’m a Sox fan so for me it was a cross town rival versus a division rival and it was still amazing
I am a lifelong Cubs fan. I can't tell you how many times I lost it.
You want another butterfly effect in sports? How about Moses Malone? He was the property of the New Orleans Jazz, Portland Trail Blazers, Buffalo Braves, and Houston Rockets before he played three NBA games. The transactions led, directly or indirectly, to the Lakers getting Magic Johnson, the Celtics getting Larry Bird, and the Rockets getting Hakeem Olajuwon. That’s 10 championships and one league-saving era. In fact, if the Blazers kept Malone, they may have had the first and third picks in 1983 and the first and second picks in 1984. Imagine the Blazers with Ralph Sampson, Rodney McCray, Olajuwon, and That Jordan Fellow with those picks.
This.
It's amazing that the PTBs are historically one of the better NBA franchises after two of the biggest player selection misses in NBA history.
Mind...blown...
Here's a couple of ideas for butterfly effect videos.
-Aaron Boone's 2003 ALCS walkoff homerun and how it gave the Red Sox a championship
-Mo Lewis hit on Drew Bledsoe and the creation of the Patriots dynasty
-The 1992 NLCS and how it impacted the Pittsburgh Pirates afterwards
-"The Decision" and how it brought a championship to Cleveland
-The Herschel Walker trade and the creation of the cowboys 90s dynasty
-Andrew Luck deciding to return to Stanford for another year and how it impacted the Colts, Panthers, and Broncos
As a cubs fan this video is gonna give some great memories and some not so great memories
You’re great at the deep diving my man
The World Series win is still the happiest moment of my life because i stayed up until 12:50 in the morning on a school day to watch the game, and my younger brother was crying because I woke him up, and I was throwing couch cushions around and splashing water in my face to see if it was a dream.
literally same here, i woke my sister up from yelling and i don’t think i got to sleep until after 3 AM
Ben Paddock - I remember wearing my Rizzo jersey to school and my 2016 Cubs ASG hat to school as well, we had uniforms so they wouldnt let wear it in class but still, November 2nd 2016 - November 4th 2016 were some of the best days of my life
so, if they had won in 2003 instead of 2016 you would never been alive to see the Cubs end the curse.
I was at a bar 2 blocks away from Wrigley when it happened. It was literally the best night of my life. I have no wife and kids, so I can say that without offending anyone...lol
@@stevencooke6451 I would've been able to enjoy it since I was 22 years old in 2003...lol
I Got a butterfly effect for you.
Torrie Hunters catch that robbed a home run against Bonds in the 2002 all star game caused the game to be stopped at 7 all in extra innings when both teams ran out of pitchers.
Because of this bud selig the commissioner decided that from then on the All-Star Game would decide home-field in the World Series.
If not for that, the Cardinals in 2011 don't have home field in game 6 and the SF Giants I 2014 might not have been able to pitch Madison Bummgardner for as long as they did in game seven because they were in the KC and didn't have to worry about pitch hitting for him in a 1 run game!🤯🤯🤯🦋🦋🦋
Well you did it lmao
@@DylanQuitoriano amazing I had no idea they would do a video on this. I just thought about I would share it because I always thought about it during the world series each and how that 02 ASG effected each one.🤔😊
With a one-run lead, there was no way MadBum was coming out of Game 7.
Love this concept. I recommend a butterfly effect video discussing how the Bobby Bonilla contract ended up landing the Mets David Wright years later. Thank you for the quality content.
If thats true, then the giants losing the 2002 WS (specifically game 6) brought them championships in 10, 12, and 14. You should do that one next
What's the TLDR version of how that brought the Giants the 3 chips?
U can make a butterfly effect for anything if u reach as much as u just did lol
It's a cool story for sure, but if the Cubs had won in 03, my grandfather would have been alive to see it. We watched the Bartman game together. Of course he wanted Dusty to take Prior out at the beginning of the 7th. He was born 7 years after the Cubs won a world series and died 6 years before they won another one.
I love that I live in a time where so many droughts/curses have been broken from individual teams to entire cities and that one of my teams was fortunate enough to win(Red Sox fan)
Very unique video topic! Great work man!
What a terrible way to treat the guy that ended up giving you a World Series win
Did you know that Bartman touching that ball created a magic spell that made the Cubs immediately forget how to play baseball and suddenly made the Marlins score 8 runs.
Brilliant. Keep them coming.
So we need one on Bobby Bonilla caused the Mets to get David Wright
in many ways that moment with Bartman was basically the beginning of the end for Prior
Yup, Baker definitely couldn’t have put the closer in for the 8th. He has to wait for the 9th. It’s only a World Series berth on the line!
Great video! The guy who replaced Pinella is pronounced Mike Ku-WAH-dee.
Keep it up vids are dope 🔥🔥🔥
Loved the video, besides a Dbacks fan I’m also a huge Cubs fan
You either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become a hero
You should do how Carson Palmer’s knee injury in the 2005 playoffs led to Cincinnati getting Joe Burrow
Your entire existence right up to now, reading this, is the product of infinite butterfly effects. Obviously it can’t be mapped out but in theory a guy named Dave in 1971 could have made a wrong turn on his way somewhere and had he not made that mistake, I would’ve never been born.
The thing to really bake your noodle is that while that small decision (Bartman's) DID have a big impact on that game, if it is true that small decisions make huge impacts, then everyyyyy small decision leading to the 2016 championship must be equally evaluated. For example, the pitch selection in the bottom of the third inning of game 2. Those decisions also have an impact on the outcome of the inning/game/series and arguably MORE of an impact than Bartman's ever could simply due to the proximity of those decisions with the result of the championship.
The opening shot made me double check if i was on the BBC Earth Channel
I'm calling shenanigans on the SEC bit
I lik these old baseball videos reminds me of wen the game was great
Great vid
Here’s a real Butterfly Effect you.
In 1964, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed an amateur free agent named Al Oliver. He helped contribute to the 1971 World Series championship Pirates team. After the 1977 season, he was traded to the Rangers for Bert Blyleven and John Milner. They helped the 1979 Pirates win their 5th World Series. However, Blyleven didn’t get along with manager Chuck Tanner and after the 1980 season, he was traded to the Indians for a grab bag of nothing. Blyleven continues to have success with the Indians for the next four and a half season until August of 1985 when he’s traded to the Twins, going to Cleveland is a shortstop prospect named Jay Bell. But by 1989, the Indians had decided to trade him to the Pirates for Felix Fermin. Bell finally lived up to his ability in Pittsburgh and was the centerpiece shortstop on three straight division winners for the Pirates in 1990-92. The next four seasons he’s the star on a bunch of bad Pirates teams, after the departure of some bigger names, Jay Bell along with Jeff King are traded to the Royals for Joe Randa. Randa has a good 1997 season as the starting 3B in Pittsburgh and he looks like the guy for the Pirates at 3B until Aramis Ramirez is ready. However, the Pirates leave Randa unprotected in the expansion draft and they lose him. Now with no real 3B, the Pirates rush Aramis Ramirez to the big league club. The 19 year old clearly isn’t the player they expect him to be someday, but they are now using up his pre-free agent years. He finally figures it all out in 2001 and his first year of arbitration is 2003. But at the same time, the Pirates waste a lot of money on bad contracts and ownership forces the GM to dump salary. So Ramirez is traded to the Cubs along with Kenny Lofton. They provide the Cubs with enough help to get them to beat the Astros in the division race by one game and they go to the playoffs where Bartman happens. Also on the 2003 Cubs team? Moises Alou, who the Pirates had traded in 1990 for Zane Smith who helped shore up their rotation for a playoff push. Alou ends up in Chicago after spending time with the Expos, Marlins and Astros.
That 03’ Marlins team was no joke..... Just saying food for thought
When I saw Shawn Camps name as a winning pitcher I was like "OMG my pitching coach is in this video!"
Ok, you say several times "while its unknown whether the bartman play led directly to....." kind of throws your entire premise out the window.
All the little connections leading to a Cubs WS win that can't be ruled out as having been connected to the Bartman incident is still pretty interesting.
@8:20 So Andy Mcfail failed? Go figure...
buckner suffered the same fate:
there was still another game to be won and the TEAM lost it
ummm not the same fate. They were both hated and made out to be villains but Buckner got a city wide apology (not that that negates anything) and the Red Sox went on to win 3 more WS in relatively short amount of time. But Chicago was just terribly nasty Bartman. Sure they offered him a ring in 2016 but how tf does a ring make up for ruining your life. Especially considering her was one of nearly a dozen people all trying to catch the ball. He had to move and his life was changed forever. Buckner, even though also had to move, was a professional baseball player with a decent career under his belt. He had a little bit more money and he was used to fans giving him shit. When we look back on Buckner's life there are many aspects to talk about and remember that happened before his infamous moment in '86. Bartman on the other hand was just a fan and the whole baseball world came down on him hard and it's the only event people can attach to his name. Quite frankly, these two incidents are why I'll never root for either team. As far as I'm concerned both guys didn't deserve the backlash and both cities should still feel like shit for how they treated him. It's just a f***ing game.
WhiteTylerPerry ok boomer
José Hunter's EW&F Remixes my momma’s my daddy
This is like SB Nation’s Collapse series but in reverse haha
Sosa was sent to Baltimore not Texas. However, I feel that this whole thing while interesting is a bit of a stretch.
#1 pick and shortened career be damned, Mark Prior doesn't get enough love.
This was wild.
So Steve Bartman caused Joe Burrow? Cuz Burrow played for LSU, and the Steve Bartman caused the SEC dominance as stated at the end of the video.
Dude, the pronunciation of some of these names is rough.
Uh-rahm-iss Ramirez
Mike Qua-DEE
etc.
I’m glad I wasn’t alone in my thoughts lol
11:43 its not like longoria wouldnt have had a chance to hit his homer, its that there was a chance he wouldnt have had a chance to hit the homer
Plus fuld was not a good hitter at all (although I admired him for his stellar diving plays). This video takes a huge leaps and hypotheticals. It makes sense given the first example of this video with Nagasaki isn’t even butterfly effect.
This guy is basically sports MatPat
It took 13 years. I don't see any real connection.
One more, the Holy Roller not only led to a rule change, it arguably led to Tommy Prothro resigning as Chargers coach, where he was replaced by Don Coryell. And thus was (re-)born Air Coryell. And while Coryell never won a Super Bowl some of his disciples (direct and otherwise) did as coaches. Joe Gibbs won three as head coach, Norv Turner won two and Mike Martz won one as offensive coordinators.
Do a video about breaking down how the Boston Red Sox won 3 World Series in the 2000s
Or how about Freeman Williams? The Celtics took him with the eighth pick in the 1978 NBA Draft. Before then the pick was involved in a trade that saw the Jazz relinquish the rights to Moses Malone and trade the pick the Lakers would use to take Magic in 1979. The Lakers then traded that pick to the Celtics along with Kermit Washington after his infamous punch of Rudy Tomjanovich. By getting that pick the Celtics arguably had more flexibility to draft Larry Bird at 6 even though he wouldn’t play for the Celtics for another year since he had college eligibility left.
After drafting Williams the Celtics then traded him to the San Diego Clippers in a deal in which both owners swapped franchises. Williams was then traded in 1981-82 from the Clippers to the Hawks for Al Wood. That was a relatively boring trade, but it set the stage for the Hawks trading Williams and John Drew to the Jazz (feel like we’ve gone full circle here) for the rights to the Jazz first round pick in 1982 (#3 overall), which was...wait for it...Dominique Wilkins.
I don't see how the Steve Bartman incident lead to the Cubs winning 13 years later; there is no direct connection.
Do a butterfly effect on Dale Jr winning the Pepsi 400 at Daytona just months after Dale Sr passed away at the same track
Narrator sounds like the comic Tony Hintchcliff
There's an argument that 1994 led to the Yankees dynasty, if there's a validity to it can you make a video one day?
I always wondered why Baker didn't pull Prior sooner. He did have options though. He could have brought in Zambrano to pitch. You have to put it all on the line when you are that close to a title. These days, managers wouldn't hesitate to use every pitcher available.
Yea except managers also get shit when they pull the starting pitcher for the bullpen as well. Just look at Jim Leyland’s pull of Max Scherzer in game 2 of the 2013 ALCS,
Same thing happened with the Nationals last year. If Yelich wasn’t injured he would have made the catch in the Wildcard game so it means that they might have not won
MY WIFE RUINED MY LIFE, I don't usually attend church, how ever my mother was visiting me and she enjoys church. We were leave church, my mother suggested we turn left and go out the front door to the car. I suggested we go in for coffee. I met my wife who ended up ruining my life. All I had to do was make a left turn or go to another church.
You are reaching hard on this one....
That ball wasn't going to be caught anyway.
When I was 4, I went to my first baseball game - AAA team Fresno Grizzlies. There was a foul ball hit RIGHT at me and I caught it! Right after I caught it, this complete asshole adult straight up ripped the ball out of my hands and never gave it back. I was disheartened and, 22 years later, I have yet to even come close to catching a foul ball at any baseball game. I’m so stoked to see the Butterfly Effect video made about that.
My birthday was the next day and I thought I was getting the best present ever. I did but it came 13 years later
As a cub fan, I forgive him after 2016
It's such a large gap between 2003 and 2016, it's not bartman it's time and luck
Who do you think will win the world series this year?
Montreal
Did Fox Sports, or the announcers ever apologize to him for constantly flashing back to Bartman as things started collapsing?
Butterfly Effect Video Idea
9/11 made Tom Brady the GOAT.
If 9/11 doesn't happen, the following week doesn't get postponed by the tragedy.
The week 17 games don't get rescheduled for the following week.
The following week Drew Bledsoe is tackled by Mo Lewis out of bounds injuring him.
Tom Brady steps in and leads the team to the playoffs, their first Super Bowl title, and everything that comes after it...
all because of 9/11.
I blame baker 100% for that collapse. He left Prior in for way to to long. Never went out and calmed him down or anything. He took a world championship caliber team and turned them into a 100 loss team in 2 years. How he ever got another job in baseball is mind boggling.
The 1994 MLB lockout led to the Chicago Bulls second three-peat. (The reason MJ quit baseball was because he didn't want to be a replacement player.)
I’m pretty sure a butterfly cannot cause a tornado...can we use a better analogy?
The Cubs actually traded Sammy Sosa to the Orioles. Sammy Sosa went to the rangers later. and interfering with a foul ball sounds much easier said than done during a game considering that you actually have to sit in the right spot to do so. Lol
Steve Bartman had to go in hiding I'm really surprised he got out of there without getting hurt thank God social media was nowhere near as relevant as it is now
Murda on the beat so it's not nice
For this life, I cannot change
Hidden Hills, deep off in the main
M&M's, sweet like candy cane
Drop the top, pop it, let it bang (pop it, pop it)
For this life, I cannot change
Hidden Hills, deep off in the main
M&M's, sweet like candy cane
Drop the top, pop it, let it bang (pop it, pop it)
Drop the top, play hide and seek
Jump inside, jump straight to the lake
Take a sip, feel just how I be (it's lit!)
On freeway, but no, ain't nothin' free (straight up)
Bend laws, bend lanes
Been bustin' bills, but still ain't nothin' change
You in the mob soon as you rock the chain
She caught the waves just thumbin' through my braids (alright)
Heatin' up, baby, I'm just heatin' up (it's lit)
Need ya love, not a need it is a must (yeah!)
Feelin' stuck, you know how to keep me up (yeah, yeah!)
Icy love, icy like a hockey puck
For this life, I cannot change
Hidden Hills, deep off in the main
M&M's, sweet like candy cane
Drop the top, pop it, let it bang (Pop it, pop it)
For this life, I cannot change
Hidden Hills, deep off in the main
M&M's, sweet like candy cane
Drop the top, pop it, let it bang
All the ones, all the chains piled on the mantle
All the dogs, all the dogs low creep right behind me in the Phantom
Never go, never go dip on the set, stayed Santana
Yeah, run it back, turn the lights on when I hit up Green Lantern
Yeah, fly the broads, fly the dogs down to Atlanta
Yeah, in the cut in Medusa, lay low I might be
Yeah, roll up, help me calm down when I move in high speed
Yeah, If I send one, need the text back 'cause you know what I need
Oh, please (oh please)
Oh me (oh me)
Oh my (oh my)
We been movin', we been movin' for some time (Alright!)
Flexin', flexin' try to exercise
(Exercise, exercise, exercise, exercise)
For this life, I cannot change
Hidden Hills, deep off in the main
M&M's, sweet like candy cane
Drop the top, pop it, let it bang (Pop it, pop it)
For this life, I cannot change
Hidden Hills, deep off in the main
M&M's, sweet like candy cane
Drop the top, pop it, let it bang
Some real tinfoil hat level shit right here.
I feel bad for bartman, he was the one who caught it amongst a sea of hands, and they had a game 7
No wonder Prior’s career went downhill Dusty baker killed his throwing arm. All respect to Dusty but Prior was looking amazing before all the pitches towards the end of the 03 season
Didn't they trade Sosa to Baltimore not Texas?
The cubs gave him a ring because he didn’t sue anybody and didn’t make any noise....me,I would’ve hung around till I got some kind of minor injury,then got me a cool million..
It's funny everyone blames just steve for that loss when there was clearly 4 other people right there reaching for the ball that were trying to catch the ball aswell
I don't even blame batman that much. I blame mostly Alex Gonzalez.
I don't think all of that caused the Cubs to win in 2016 because it could have happened anyway
you missed a perfect opportunity to start the video with travis scott!
I quite literally was playing that song in my head during the intro
Ah you’re right. Maybe I can use the instrumental in a recurring intro
And all it took was the ruination of Mr. Bartman's life.
Bartman got a large amount of borderline credible death threats for a solid year after this. That shows what kind of goons Cub fans are. This whole inning was a laugh riot. They had Prior and Wood at home, needing a lone W, and got smoked in both games. It's one thing to lose or to choke, but the full aesthetic significance of this meltdown reaffirmed why I never stuck with this team when I was young, quickly turning to the White Sox at age 10 or so. There are those who detest failure, and those who write poems about it.
There's always been an aura of underachievement about this team, but the fans act as if their team's historical quirks and aesthetics are elemental aspects of the game. To them it's not merely good, but 'good for baseball' if they should win a pennant. Who thinks like this? Who but a solipsistic man-child considers his sports anxiety in terms of some broader cultural horizon?
So you're saying Cleveland fans should hate Bartman
Go Cardinals
Superstitious fans would say that the championship drought that began in 1908 was due to the "Merkle's boner" play, specifically Evers orchestrating the charge for Cubs players to beat up a Giants fan in the Polo Grounds outfield and wrestle the ball from his hands, then throw the ball to Evers and tag Merkle out for not touching second base.
That was a bad vibe dick move (Evers was a notoriously sour man) that won them a tiebreaker replay Game 155, by all accounts incredibly rowdy and vulgar and bubbling with potential violence from the 1st inning onward, which the Cubs won and would go on to defeat the Tigers in the World Series.
The baseball gods did not approve of this behavior, so they punished the team for 108 years for this unseemly behavior.
Superstitious fans would say.
Yes, it helped them realize that they needed to use WAR and not the opinions of smoky backroom good old boys..
Dude they almost blew 2016 lol
Let's get real, even if the Cubs won game 6 they would have been stopped by the Yankees anyway so if anything Steve bartman is the true hero for the Cubs
It’s turtles all the way down
They’re lineup was insanely good, and some of the greats have left including:
Dexter Fowler: he went to the cardinals
Ben Zobrist: retired after 2019 season
Addison Russell: was cut from the team after 2019 season and is now playing for a Korean baseball team
Miguel Montero: was cut from team after he criticized jake arrietas pitching
Aroldis Chapman: was mad that he didn’t get enough pitching time in the World Series, signed with Yankees
David Ross: retired after World Series win and is now the cubs general manager
A handful of pitchers signed with a different team such as: Pedro strop, Travis wood, jake Arietta, Carl Edwards jr, and a few others
A few bench players also signed with other teams: Chris denorfia, Chris coghlan, Jorge soler, tommy la stella and others
If the young players on this list never left the cubs, the cubs would be so good this season, especially since Baez has been working on hitting and now has so much power and strikes out a lot less and all of the hitters in the lineup are hitting well this season so far
Imagine if Addison Russell was on the cubs this season, the second base/shortstop combo was insane with him and javy baez
And the versatility of Chris coghlan is like no other, he could play any position that he needed to, except pitcher of course
And the hitting accuracy of tommy la Stella makes him the perfect pinch hitter late in the game
All of the cubs pitchers that year were so good, even the bullpen that struggled in the beginning of the season, they had pitchers that could hit so good, that they played left field once
There are no words to describe how good this team was, and they were so good in every category of the game
Honetly, you could make a butterfly effect video about every single thing in the world. Thats how life works. Cause and effect, there's nothing novel about it. Choices and actions cause effects. Are you now just realizing this?
Go Dolphins!
I hate those who blame one person for championship show, also I rather be Cubs fan for that 100 years then watch the last season of the Marlins and I’m Marlins fan
Yea that’s cap the cubs back in the day where like the marlins of today so I’ve heard
If Steve Bartman hadn't interfered with Moises Alou while he was trying to catch the fly ball, the Cubs probably would have clinched the NL Pennant. Would the Cubs have broken the Billy Goat curse 13 years earlier by beating the Yankees in the 2003 World Series? Who knows.
Please. The Alex Gonzalez play (or no-play) had way more impact on that game, not to mention the Cubs had a lead in Game 7, and gagged it up. People need to stop scapegoating.
Noho 2000 it's so stupid why Bartman gets all the blame
Moises Alou admitted later that he could not have made the play. Give it a rest.
@@chowpuppy4537 Alou recanted that a few years later. He was just trying to make Bartman feel better and take the public pressure off him. The criticism of Bartman was over-the-top and unfair, but freeze the above video at 2:07 and tell me Alou wasn't tracking that ball perfectly.
@@Nhamp2000 Alex Gonzalez was rushing to try and turn a double play. Something he should have been able to do, but it's something he wouldn't have had to do if there were 2 outs already. Prior and the Cubs were locked in before the Bartman play and a mess after it. Dusty Baker managed the situation horribly. I feel bad for Bartman (could've happened to anyone), but what Engie says is probably right.
10:34 -- Were there any other incidences that Red Sox fans had to put clothespins on their noses and hope for the YANKEES to win (to win the division or playoff spot or something)??