A spokesman for infamous Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman says that he is overjoyed that the team finally broke their 108-year championship drought, but says he won't attend the victory parade scheduled for Friday.
The Cubs won their first World Series title since 1908 after a thrilling 8–7 10-inning Game 7 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday, overcoming a 3–1 series deficit.
“He was just overjoyed that the Cubs won, as all the Cubs fans are," Frank Murtha, a lawyer who is Bartman’s spokesman, told USA Today. “We don’t intend to crash the parade,’’
Bartman, of course, was mostly blamed for the Cubs collapse in Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series against Florida Marlins, when Cubs outfielder Moises Alou attempted to get to a foul ball when Bartman and other fans reached for the ball but failed.