{"id":710,"date":"2013-10-14T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2013-10-14T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:11:40","slug":"cubs-documentary-recalls-unhappy-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/10\/14\/cubs-documentary-recalls-unhappy-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs documentary recalls unhappy anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5<\/a><\/a>If you're not already sick of hearing, seeing and reading about the 10th anniversary of the Bartman debacle, there's one more look back you might not want to miss.<\/p>\n

At 9 p.m. Tuesday Comcast SportsNet Chicago premieres \"5 Outs . . .\" <\/a>\u2014 a 90-minute documentary on the collapse of the Chicago Cubs in the 2003 National League Championship Series. Included are interviews with everyone involved in the Cubs' heartbreaking loss that season. Everyone except infamous fan Steve Bartman, of course.<\/p>\n

Produced by Sarah Lauch and Ryan McGuffey and narrated by actor William Petersen, it's the first billed as a \u201cComcast SportsNet Original Production.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are excerpts from interviews in the documentary:<\/p>\n

Cubs outfielder Moises Alou:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI am sick and tired of that question...I swear man...every day in the Dominican and the States....everywhere I go\u2026everyday\u2026I am serious...everyday someone asks me about that Bartman situation.\u00a0I do feel bad for him and I said it that day it wasn't his fault.\u00a0 Someone came up with some bullcrap that they made up that I said in elevator that I would not get that ball and that is not true. I never said that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember Luis Castillo hitting the fly ball.\u00a0I remember not being very good at jumping and robbing a home run.\u00a0 That wasn\u2019t a home run, but it was the same jump and the same play. I go into foul territory and I remember my eyes on the ball and my glove was right there and I had the ball.\u00a0He [Bartman] interfered with me and I didn\u2019t catch the ball, but that wasn\u2019t the reason why we didn\u2019t make it because then we had another shot\u2026ground ball double play\u2026right there and we couldn\u2019t stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cubs pitcher Mark Prior:<\/strong> \u201cI have heard all the theories and whatever you want to call them. I looked at the tapes.\u00a0 I thought it was fan interference and that is an honest opinion. I don\u2019t think he [Bartman] changed the course of the game, history, or all the other things that have been blamed on this person.\u00a0In my mind, Moises would have 100 percent got it, but that play doesn\u2019t define the series or what happened after the fact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cubs manager Dusty Baker:<\/strong> \u201cI think Mo [Alou] would have had [the ball] and it would have changed the outcome of the game.\u00a0 But, at the same time, I thought about Bartman.\u00a0 That poor guy, man.\u00a0 I mean you go to the ballpark to support your team, not knowing that four hours later, you were going to be the most maligned guy in town\u2026I felt bad for the guy.\u00a0 I remember seeing his face\u2026actually it motivated me for the next year.\u00a0 I wanted to win and have Bartman sit next to me in the ticker tape parade, that\u2019s how I felt about him because that could have been anybody\u2026anybody at any time.\u00a0 I mean how many people would have the presence of mind not to catch a playoff ball? Especially if you are sitting up in the stands where he was sitting\u2026well, I just couldn\u2019t believe what I had heard [about what happened to him] afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood:<\/strong> \u201cWe just blew it [Game 7]. We just completely fell apart.\u00a0 That was it.\u00a0 For me personally, I'm sitting there, obviously I pitched that game, so I'm putting a lot of it on myself.\u00a0 The best sound I've ever heard was the three-run homer to tie it in that stadium, and the worst sound I've ever heard in baseball was how quiet that stadium was\u2026I could hear the Marlins guys talking and celebrating and what they were saying to each other.\u00a0 It was eerily quiet\u2026and sitting in the dugout and listening to those guys jump around and celebrate like that was the worst moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you're not already sick of hearing, seeing and reading about the 10th anniversary of the Bartman debacle, there's one more look back you might not want to miss. At 9 p.m. Tuesday Comcast SportsNet Chicago premieres \"5 Outs . . .\" \u2014 a 90-minute documentary on the collapse of the Chicago Cubs in the... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}