Bartman reprieve? Alou five years too late

Projo Sox Blog found this 4/2/2008 on www.suntimes.com [flag]

Alou's remorse over Bartman incident a case of too little, too late Oh, so NOWWWWWWWW, after whipping down his glove like Tanner Boyle in ``Bad News Bears'' and claiming he had an ``almost 100 percent'' shot to catch the most notorious foul ball in baseball history, Moises Alou is coming clean. That never is a good thing, of course, recalling how the last time Alou came clean, he admitted to ... [link]

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Baseball Today: Wednesday, April 2
Published 4/2/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... UH . . . NEVER MIND: Five years after the fact, Moises Alou now admits, "I wouldn't have caught it anyway." He's referring, of course, to the Steve Bartman incident, which was sparked by, as the Chicago Sun-Times' Jay Marriotti writes, Alou "whipping down his glove like Tanner Boyle in Bad News Bears and claiming he had an 'almost 100 percent' shot to catch the most notorious foul ball in baseball history. The play a) made a pariah of poor Barman and b) has become a symbol of Cubs' futility in the same way Bill Buckner's muffed grounder symbolized the ...

Mariotti: Bartman reprieve? Alou five years too late
Published 4/2/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Mariotti: Bartman reprieve? Alou five years too late Alou: Go to bed!...I’m much more interested in being twenty three years too late . Four and a half bitter years have passed. Steve Bartman’s life is in shambles. Mark Prior is pitching in San Diego, Dusty Baker is managing in Cincinnati, Alex Gonzalez is enjoying retirement and Kerry Wood is an unpopular closer trying to avoid his 12th disabled-list trip. And suddenly, perhaps stricken by Bartman-related guilt, Alou has decided to alter his view on what really happened that surreal October night in 2003. ...

Alou now claims Bartman didn't interfere; We say bullsh*t, Moises
Published 4/2/2008 by Bryan at OUT OF RIGHT FIELD
Jay Mariotti says Moises Alou has been urinating on Steve Bartman for the past 4.5 years. Ouch. While we don't put 100% of the 2003 NLCS collapse on Steve Bartman, Moises Alou is out of his gourd if he thinks he wouldn't have caught it anyways now. ...

Throwing it around
Published 4/2/2008 by TheNaturalMevs at Diamond Hoggers
... -So now Moises Alou wants to forgive Steve Bartman. Jay Mariotti isn't buying it. [Chicago Sun Times] ...

Hump Day Reading
Published 4/2/2008 by Coley Ward at umpbump.com
... over the winter, and why he won’t be calling as many Braves games this season. Jay Mariotti gives us his take on Moises Alou’s flip-flop. It’s about time — I was dying to know what Mariotti thought. Kenny Williams ...

All about Alou returning, 1B and Bartman.....
Published 4/22/2008 by Ed Ryan at Mets Fever
... ``You know what the funny thing is?" he continued, perhaps as he passed the leather glove department. ``I wouldn't have caught it, anyway.''source Chicago Sun Times ...

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Posted 4/2/2008 on MVN Outsider

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Posted 4/2/2008 on The MLB Source

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Posted 4/2/2008 on MLB - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports

Any holdovers still blaming Steve Bartman should let the infamous Cubs fan off the hook, Moises Alou says. The former Cubs left fielder, now with the Mets, said he wouldn't have caught the now-infamous foul ball in the 2003 National League Championship Series that hit the heel of Bartman's hand in the eighth inning of Game 6, prolonging an inning in which the Marlins later rallied for the ...

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Posted 4/2/2008 on MiamiSportsBlog.com - Miami Hurricanes Blog, Miami Dolphins Blog, Miami Heat Blog, Florida Marlins Blog, Florida Panthers Blog

Thankfully for me, my team wasn’t on the shitty end of this play, so I still excite at the very thought of Steve Bartman blocking that baseballs path from entering Moises Alou’s glove. Everyone remembers a pissed off Alou throwing his glove down, and his statements afterwards claiming he most certainly would’ve caught the ball. But now, almost five years later, Alou has ...

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Posted 4/2/2008 on Mojo Blog

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Posted 4/2/2008 on FanIQ Blog

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Posted 4/1/2008 on Fish@Bat: Blogging the Florida Marlins

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