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...criticize his own party for perceived failures; he's less a Democrat than a populist-leftie. Many Democrats, like Cubs fans, are understandably exasperated by the Blue team's string of losses and lame campaigns. Even when things are looking positive, Moore always seems to expect a Steve Bartman moment. On the book's cover, he raises the question "How many Democrats does it take to lose the most winnable election in American history?" And in the book's "Ask Mike!" section, he addresses this poser: "Is it true Democrats drink from a sippy cup and sleep with the lights...
October in Chicago can be the cruelest month, and we're not talking weather. For 88 years it has been a final resting place for the World Series dreams of both the White Sox and Cubs, an epically painful calendar of defeat pockmarked by Bartman (the dopey fan who may have cost the Cubs the pennant in 2003) and the "Black Sox" (the team that threw the 1919 Series). The record had been equaled only by the Boston Red Sox, whose curse-crushing triumph last year proved that nobody can lose forever. So as the White Sox legions watched their...
...Cubs fan Steve Bartman was merely reviled for his role in the team's 2003 play-offs defeat, but the ball he tried to grab met all of these fates EXCEPT...
...came to a bad end. It was the BASEBALL that many blamed for costing the Chicago Cubs a trip to the World Series last fall, when a fan, Steve Bartman, deflected it from the glove of Cubs left fielder Moises Alou. In a stunt to exorcise the curse--and raise money for juvenile diabetes--the ball was blown up inside a clear case. Fans cheered, but Bartman was a no-show...
...STEVE BARTMAN Cubs fan fouled up Chicago's World Series dream...