Cubs fans want to make amends for 2003, offering Steve Bartman an opportunity to attend the team's NL Wild Card game in Pittsburgh, per USA Today. Bartman -- who unjustly became the most vilified fan in baseball history -- never lived his interference in the 2003 NLCS down.
Doing what any fan would do in the situation -- including many in his immediate area -- the poor soul reached out for a foul ball and kept Moises Alou from catching it. It would've been the second out of the eighth inning of Game 6.
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It all went downhill from there.
Bartman, not the Cubs pitching staff who allowed an eight-run inning that night and not the team who choked away a 5-3 lead in Game 7, was crucified.
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Now -- 12 long years later -- Cubs fans want to make things right with a GoFundMe campaign.
The $5,000 Keque Escobedo seeks would pay for his ticket, flight and hotel room. Any money raised in his absence will be donated to the Alzheimer's Association.
The cause -- though just -- is still 12 years too late.
Don't do it Bartman remember the death threats! https://t.co/TnuKvhIq26
— Brad York (@whitebrad47) October 2, 2015
Twelve years.
It took 12 years for Cubs fans to realize they behaved like a petulant four-year-old who couldn't get that second scoop of ice cream. Bartman wasn't responsible for 2003's heartbreaking loss, the 25 men in uniform who failed to do their job were.
Even if the mythical notion that fans can somehow impact a sequence of events was true, it's still not Bartman's fault. It's the fault of every Cubs fan that berated him, threw beer at him or even threatened his life.
Karma is unforgiving to those who don't deserve happiness.
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