Who were Chicago's most embarrassing athletes? The guys you hated so much, you considered booing them even though they were on your team.We'll take a look at two as we continue the Mount Hushmore challenge as Bill Wirtz goes up against Steve Bartman.
Bill Wirtz
The man tried to Plax hockey in Chicago. Ask any old-time Chicago sports fan. They'll tell you a tale that once upon a time, the City of Broad Shoulders was not a Cubs town or a Bears town.
It was a Blackhawk hockey town.
Wirtz comes along and basically takes all the good will stored up over the years for this franchise by its fans and takes a dump on it. High ticket prices weren't enough? How about no home games on TV? That alone kept this young Chicago sports fan from embracing hockey until he got to college.
It's because it wasn't available to him.
Steve Bartman
Part of me feels bad for Bartman because he's a Cubs fan. Then there's the part of me that says, "If you're going to sit in the front row and have headphones on listening to the game ... and see Moises Alou coming at you full speed chasing a fly ball you might want to get away from the incoming ball and/or ballplayer."
Bartman's act is kin to Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking over a lantern in 1871.
Alex Gonzalez, Dusty Baker and others take parts of the blame as well, but thanks to the vote of the people, Barman made the cut for this Mount Hushmore.
(Ed. Note from Luda: I probably should have put Bartman here in the first place. If the Cubs make the World Series that year, I had tickets ... and a potential date. No World Series + girl getting back with boyfriend = Pissed off. Fuck it I'm voting for Bartman!)
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