ESPN's 30 for 30 to Air Steve Bartman Documentary

Chicago Breaking Sports -  PEORIA, Ariz.-- ESPN Films' "30-for-30" documentary on Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman and the infamous foul ball during Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series will premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The film, "Catching Hell," by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, was originally slated to run last Oct. 26 on ESPN as part of their documentary series, coinciding with the World Series. But the date was postponed so Gibney could have more time to work on it. It's slated to run later this year.

Bartman has stayed out of the public eye since apologizing the day after it happened, and the Cubs repeatedly have defended him over the years.

When the film was first announced during the summer of 2009, Cubs third baseman Aramis Ramirez told the Tribune that nothing good would come of spotlighting Bartman so long after the incident.

"To me, I don't see anything positive coming out of it, for me as a player or for us as players," he said.

Ramirez added that Bartman was not to blame for the Game 6 loss to Florida.

"After that (foul ball), Alex Gonzalez made an error and they scored five more runs," he said. "So it wasn't Bartman's fault. We just didn't get it done."

The Cubs still had a chance to go to the World Series, but lost Game 7. The only players from that '03 team on the 2011 Cubs are Ramirez, Kerry Wood and Carlos Zambrano.

This is going to be fucking great.  It's been almost eight years since the whole foul ball bullshit in game 6 of the NLCS and most of Chicago STILL wants this guy's head.  I personally think he's the man and I'd love to by him a beer, but I actually recently think I heard the Cubs are putting a fucking effigy of him next to the Harry Caray statue for drunk Cubs fans to throw rocks at after losses this year.  Anyways, since the Cubs back to back championships in 07 and 08 (that is 1907 and 1908) they haven't had much success on the field and have found scapegoats for their shittiness - a billygoat, a black cat running across the field and then fucking Bartman.  

And I love how this guy's last name is Bartman, by the way.  It's like anytime this guy tries to pay for something in Chicago with credit, immediately whoever is ringing him up is going to think "Hey, this is that asshole who cost the Cubs the fucking World Series!"  It just has the douchey fucking ring to it.