Chicago Cubs, Steve Bartman and the $25K Autograph
Hello Rocky,
Is this the year the Cubs finally win the World Series?
Jennifer Latwis
Skokie, IL
Rocky Responds:
Screw the Cubs! Until they make good with Steve Bartman, I don't want to hear about the "Cubbies" or their long-suffering, semi-employed fans.
All Bartman did in the 2003 NCLS was catch a foul ball that a lollygagging Moises Alou may or may not have had a play on. That's what fans do when a ball comes their way- they reach for it. In the same seats, Harry Carey himself would have thrust his meaty palms towards the ball, though he would have missed and landed on the field, splitting open like a beer-pinata.
All the scorn and vitriol that the city continues to heap on Mr. Bartman is a toddling-town travesty.
Until they have "Bartman Day" at Wrigley Field, where Steve throws out the first pitch AND leads in singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame," The HelloRocky Team's favorite ball club will be whoever is playing the Cubs.
The good news for Bartman is that SportsBuy.com is offering him $25,000 to show up at a memorabilia show next weekend in Chicago and sign one autograph.
"No one in sports memorabilia history has ever been paid $25,000 to sign one autograph – not Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, or any other athlete,” said Mike Berkus, co-Executive Director of The National.We hope Steve shows up, signs the photo, takes the money and then addresses the Chicago media in the only way that makes sense:“All Steve has to do is show up, prove he is in fact the real Steve Bartman – not some earphone-wearing imposter – and he’ll move to the top of the autograph value list,” said Wesley Hein, CEO of SportsBuy.com."
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