The Official Site of The Chicago Cubs: News: Bartman exonerated by Alou admission

wrigleyville23 found this 4/3/2008 on chicago.cubs.mlb.com [flag]

CHICAGO -- Steve Bartman can come out now. Moises Alou says he couldn't have caught the popup with which Bartman, a Cubs fan attending Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series, was criticized for interfering. First baseman Derrek Lee, who was playing for the Florida Marlins at the time, didn't think Alou could catch it either. In case you forgot, here are the details: On Oct. ... [link]

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Moises Comes Clean On Game 6
Published 4/3/2008 by Wrigleyville at wrigleyville23
We've said it before and we say it again: It's officially time to leave Steve Bartman alone (and start hating Alex Gonzalez). Seriously, how is Game 6 not the "Gonzalez Game"? And why is Moises just now saying he couldn't have caught the ball? He was plenty mad at the time.

Get Out Of Jail Free Card Awarded to Bartman
Published 4/3/2008 by Ben Schwartz at Can't Stop The Bleeding
(Steve Bartman, pictured, is welcome back at Wrigley). Cub fans looking for easy answers and scapegoats for our 100 Years of Solitude no longer have Steve Bartman to kick around anymore. The Cubs officially pardoned him from guilt in the October 14th 2003 that Moises Alou hung him when he couldn’t make the play. That the Cubs got around to it after five years of ridicule and misery for the poor guy is a bit much, and hopefully they award him season tickets, at US Cellular Field, on the third base line. (Bartman, seen here entering baseball history) As the Cubs Carrie Muskat reports: Steve Bartman can come out ...

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The Zoner posted 4/1/2008 from sports.espn.go.com

Alou, now with the Mets, said he wouldn't have caught the now-infamous pop fly 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 lead. Florida then went on to win the series.

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