My CBS Chicago column from April 25 …
(CBS) It wasn’t Sammy’s party, but he’ll still cry if he wants to.
“I should have been there; I would have liked to have been there,” one-time Chicago Cubs icon Sammy Sosa told ESPN Deportes on Thursday after his invitation to Wrigley Field’s 100th birthday celebration was lost in the mail, or translation, or Congress, or something.
“The Cubs know where to find me, and I hope to have the chance to clear up any misunderstanding.”
Once the darling of Wrigleyville, Sosa has been a pariah at the Friendly Confines ever since he walked out on his team during the Cubs’ finale in 2004, leaving bad feelings and a busted boom box in his wake.
Neither has been fixed in the decade since.
Last October, during an interview with WGN-AM’s David Kaplan, Sosa pleaded his case for being welcomed back into the Cubs’ fold when he said, “First of all, a lot of miscommunication and a few things that happened before. That’s why we haven’t got a great relationship with the organization. But I’m looking forward to one day, you walk in Wrigley Field and see my statue, see my flag.”
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