How does that come up in conversation? Them: "Are you happy that the Cubs won the world series?" you: "Actually I'm a Cards fan" Them: "Oh, then we are actually the parents of Steve Bartman, who provided the greatest moment in Cardinal's history" you: "You're thinking of Sox fans" I'm in sales in SWMO. Warming them up they kept talking about being Cubs fans, lived in a NW suburb of Chicago {Northbrook maybe if that's place), and had a home in AZ and watched lots of Spring Training games. I know a horsefeathers ton of Cubs stuff from here (NSBB), so was asking him about the improvements to Wrigley, new ST park vs Hohokam, etc. He tells me I seem to be a baseball historian, I tell him yes I suppose, and he says I must have noticed their last name. Told him of course, but didn't want to bring it up just in case , and he said "it's OK, Steven is our son." They were all super happy with the Cubs WS win. His life is an on and off media hell. Checked up on them 2 days after I sold them and they said Steve had WSLR or something truck outside his house. TL;DR - Huge Cubs fans and their boy got a bad deal. Neat meeting them though.