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Who picked it out, who decided that this was it?

The 2003 Chicago Cubs. The 1986 Boston Red Sox. Both produced the largest scapegoats in the history of baseball. Boston Red Sox fans are not the best. Chicago Cubs fans are the Red Sox fans of the NL. This documentary looks at those scapegoats, Bill Buckner and Steve Bartman, but it also focused on the greater losing traditions of those franchises, especially when they were ready to win. It shows what those fans and the media did to those two men.

The highlight for me was getting to see the 1986 Mets coming through, and to see Bill Buckner getting emotional. Alex Gibney directs and narrates the film, but tries to drag the story out too long. Very interesting stuff at first, but it gets a little heavy on the Chicago fan perspective. Learning about what happened to Bartman on that day was fascinating though.