No comparison


There is no comparison with Buckner and Bartman.

Bill Buckner was a ball player, in the game, that made an error during a play. Sure it's regrettable, but errors are a part of baseball- it's actually a stat.

Steve Bartman was a spectator, not in the game, that reached over the rail into the field of play and interfered with the game.

Steve Bartman interjected himself where he did not belong. I have no sympathy for him. Only a total goon reaches into the field of play for a ball. And no, not "everyone would have done the same thing". It doesn't take a baseball wiz to understand that you don't reach onto the field during the play.

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Good point. Someone should stab him.

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No, the Denkinger incident is quite different from Bartman. Denkinger is a professional umpire, he's paid to make the right call. And that call was egregiously wrong. Nobody needed super slo-mo and multiple angles to conclude the Denkinger blew it. Bartman's a paying customer who does what paying customers do, reach for foul balls. Alou doesn't throw that tantrum and the wolves never come out.

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It's not entirely clear that he did reach over. If he did, it's on the officials for missing the interference call, not Bartman.

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