Bartman Doc to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 17, 2011 5:27PM

While the heat is starting to cool from last Sunday's documentary on the University of Michigan's "Fab Five", part of ESPN's wonderful "30 for 30" series, the next installment in the series is set to premiere at next month's Tribeca Film Festival. For Cubs fans, the film focuses on a moment in the team's recent history many of the would rather forget: the Bartman game.

Steve Bartman: Catching Hell, directed by Oscar winning director Alex Gibney, was supposed to debut last October, but was pushed back to later this year so Gibney could tweak the final cut. According to the fesitval's press materials, the film "explores the psychology of die-hard sports fans, the frightening phenomenon of scapegoating, and the hysteria that turned mild-mannered Bartman into the most hated man in Chicago."

The Cubs over the years have repeated time and again that Moises Alou and Mark Prior throwing shit fits, and Alex Gonzalez bobbling an inning-ending double play ball were responsible for the collapse Bartman was not responsible for the loss. But Cubs third baseman Aramis Ramirez questioned why the film was even made and why some won't let the Bartman game rest.

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