This wouldn't happen in football

The Cubs' game wasn't on TV today, so I had the radio upstairs and the radio downstairs tuned to their radio broadcast on our local station. With the "magic number" at 4, they could clinch the division title by as early as Friday by winning today. Besides, it's the Brewers, and who better to hurt than the Brewers!

But in the bottom of the ninth with two out and nobody on base and Milwaukee leading 6-2, I gave up and took Oliver outside so he could do his duty. I arrived back inside the house just in time to hear Pat Hughes say, ". . . . . and the game is tied!"

Somehow or other they got enough runners on base to get a run to make it 6-3, then Soto hit a three-run homer to tie it up. Amazing!

Then they survived a couple of Brewer threats in extra innings and won it 7-6 in the bottom of the 12th. The "magic number" is two, and the division could be clinched as early as Friday night.

We've been here before, and we've said, "This could be the year," before, but it's time to say it again.

I wish my mom were here to enjoy this. If you don't know what I mean by that, I'll explain in a later post. It's only Sept. 18, and the playoffs are still two weeks away, so we have plenty of time in which to write about the Cubs and our history with them.

Now if only we could revive the Twins.