Home Run Derby

Remember Sarah Spain? 

You know, the girl who tried to auction herself on eBay for a date to get free tickets to see the Chicago Bears in the 2007 Super Bowl?  And then wrote some Cub reporting stuff this spring for Babes Love Baseball and The Love of Sports?

Well, she and her chest are back again. 

This time with our friends over at Mouthpiece Sports - where she’s trying to what she can to help the Chicago Cubs break their centuries old drought …

By Fucking Steve Bartman – or so she and a reasonable facsimile claim …  (Sung to “F*cking Matt Damon by Sarah Silverman)
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Let’s head to St. Louis for our next Jersey of the Week, where this Cardinal fan felt the need to (pre-emptively) tweak the nose of Chicago Cub fans everywhere with his choice of clothing …

… by reminding them of a long futility streak and a recent Cubbie scapegoat.

100 YEARS AND COUNTING

Ouch.  Well played.

Mind you, there’s a couple things we have to nitpick about the jersey …

First, he’s a little ahead of himself here.  The Cubs won their last World Series on October 14, 1908.  So it’s not TECHNICALLY 100 Years yet – but I think he’s trying to make a statement by betting that the Cubs won’t win it this season … or next.   

But we give the guy credit – he’s got stones to put down $250 for an authentic jersey that could be 100% obsolete in just a few months.  Plus he’s risking a beatdown, what with the new breed of Cub fan out there.

Next, he called out Steve Bartman … who DID NOT cause the Cubs to blow Game Six AND Seven of the 2003 NLCS.  He should really have “BAKER” written across the back.

Last, my biggest gripe about this guy - he’s got the Jersey tucked in. 

Don’t tuck in a baseball jersey unless you’re on the field, jackass!  It’s a blatant violation of rule #8 of JSF’s Baseball Jersey Wearing 101 – something I thought they handed out to anyone purchasing a Cardinals jersey of any kind.

100 Years and Counting Jersey Rating

• Cleverness: 7
• Originality: 10
• Understandability: 10

If you see a great baseball jersey that everyone else needs to see … let us know at the HRD JotW tip line !!

Last Thursday (Oct 4), Home Run Derby pulled a scoop with a grainy video and pic of a skinned goat carcass hanging from the Harry Caray statue outside Wrigley Field that someone had hung in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.  The perpetrators were obviously looking to Reverse the Curse of the Billy Goat which has supposedly haunted and doomed the Cubs since 1945.

The traditional media picked up the story over the weekend.  The Chicago Sun-Times reported it sometime on Saturday and then Sports Illustrated and MSNBC followed later that night.  And the news wires had all picked it up for the Sunday morning papers, conveniently after the Cubs had been swept out of the playoffs. 

Only the Sun-Times ran a photo of the goat in their online edition, and that was just a grainy video grab like HRD had done.

The Chicago Tribune (stiil the owners of the Cubs) only had a teeny tiny blurb about it in an AP wire report.  I wonder why they didn’t trumpet this news?

Well, Home Run Derby has since acquired a high-res pic (sent to us by a reader) of the goat dangling from Harry Caray’s arm.  I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

It’s from a different angle and shows a cardboard proclamation behind the goat.  The Goat’s name is apparently Leon “Bill” Bartman …

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The Arizona Diamondbacks broke out the “Steve Bartman on the kiss cam” again.

This time they added somone next to him …

hat tip: AZ Sports Hub

Remember Steve Bartman?

Steve Bartman, the lifelong Cub fan who got blamed for the Cubs’ implosion in Game Six (and Game Seven) of the 2003 NLCS after he did what any fan sitting in the front row would have done by reaching for a foul ball?

Moises Alou threw a grand mal hissy, Mark Prior started throwing Rick Ankiel-style pitches, and Alex Gonzalez booted a potential inning ending double play ball. And the Cubs (not Bartman) gave up eight runs. And then the Cubs found a way to lose Game Seven and send the Marlins to the World Series the next night.

Bartman went into hiding, a fugitive from his beloved Cubs and their fans. And just as wrongfully accused as Dr. Richard Kimble.

Well, they found Bartman in the stands of Chase Field during a Cubs-Diamondbacks game a few weeks ago. Video after the jump …

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