The week of forgiveness in sports

A strange thing happened to Chicago Cubs fans last week. Moises Alou, five years later lets everyone know he had no shot at catching the infamous Steve Bartman ball. The response in the Chicago media has been strange considering they were the ones that allowed the hype to get out of control rather than faulting Alex Gonzalez’s much more influential bobble of an easy double play minutes later. Anyway, Alou has now officially taken Bartman off the hook, though way to late in my opinion.

The Alou revelation, opened the floodgates. We heard that Michael Vick is writing to his former owner Arthur Blank to apologize for his mistakes. He is also playing prison football, I bet he still can’t read a defense.

There was Roy Williams at the NCAA tournament finals in a black sweater with a Jayhawk’s sticker. Though something tells me it was Bill Self winning a championship that may get Roy off the hook more so than showing a little KU pride.

Then yesterday at the RedSox game, Bill Buckner throws out the first pitch to a huge ovation. Yes, that Bill Buckner

This is a good thing though.  Glad to see these guys making amends.