Sideline Chatter: Steve Bartman and Cubs in the playoffs, what could possibly go wrong?

Come back, Steve Bartman. All is forgiven!tmpplchld Bartman _ the Cubs fan vilified for interfering with Moises Alou’s catch in the 2003 NL Championship Series _ could be getting a free trip to the team’s play-in game in Pittsburgh, USA Today reported.tmpplchld Fellow Cubs fan Keque Escobedo has started a GoFundMe account to raise $5,000 for Bartman’s flight, hotel room and ticket.tmpplchld And if the reclusive Bartman refuses the offer? They can always send a billygoat.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Penalty on the playtmpplchld Former NFL receiver Irving Fryar, 53, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a mortgage scam.tmpplchld Though defense lawyers are still hoping to get it reduced to three-and-out for good behavior.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Dolphins, take heedtmpplchld Jets taking 350 rolls of toilet paper to London for Sunday’s game.tmpplchld The game plan against the Dolphins, we assume, calls for lots of rollouts.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Rodney Dangerfield lives!tmpplchld Eight members of Iran’s women’s national soccer team were found to be men, the Al-Arabiya website reported.tmpplchld Officials suspected something was amiss when the team took a vote to watch a movie and “Ladybugs” was the runaway winner.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Welk-off winnertmpplchld The Mets are selling the champagne bottles that players emptied in the clubhouse while celebrating the team’s NL East title.tmpplchld They’ll be available for pickup, we assume, in the bottom of the fifth.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Green in the facetmpplchld Bengals receiver A.J. Green has amassed 28 catches for 570 yards and five touchdowns in his last five games against the Ravens.tmpplchld “One of these days we’ll figure out how to cover A.J. Green,” Baltimore coach John Harbaugh told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “It’d be nice if we did that before he retires.”tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Talko timetmpplchld _The late Yogi Berra, as quoted in SI.com, when Kirby Puckett landed a record $3 million-a-year contract in 1990: “If Branch Rickey was alive today, he’d roll over in his grave.”tmpplchld _NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, on a study claiming that David Beckham and his wife Victoria Beckham are richer than Queen Elizabeth: “In other words, Posh Spice is doing better than Old Spice.”tmpplchld _Jim Barach, on the record 730 penalties in the NFL season’s first three weeks: “Just another sign, along with their 2-1 record, that the Raiders are finally back in playoff form.”tmpplchld _Reader Chas K, to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, after Browns coach Mike Pettine said his squad “looked like a scout team” in a 27-20 loss to the Raiders: “Girl or Cub?”tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Go Greyhound, indeedtmpplchld Two greyhounds at Bluffs Run Greyound Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, have tested positive for potential PEDs.tmpplchld Which probably explains why the hounds’ back legs started smoking at the starting line.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld (c)2015 The Seattle Timestmpplchld Visit The Seattle Times at www.seattletimes.comtmpplchld Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.tmpplchld