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As I crossed the rise at the Fullerton overpass on Lake Shore Drive this morning, Lake Michigan looked calm and Cubbie blue — and how appropriate. The Cubs and their fans have somehow passed into blissful acceptance of the inevitable — it really is going to happen, with the so-called magic number down to a mere 4 — and suddenly are enjoying it all. What bliss after the deluge of last weekend. After the Cubs’ 5-4 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers Tuesday night at Wrigley Field, manager Lou Piniella talked of what a great game it had been — and it was, filled with Ryan Dempster’s fine pitching, Reed Johnson’s incredible catch in center, Alfonso Soriano’s impressive pair of homers, and Kerry Wood’s last-out, called-strike curveball against Prince Fielder, who had kept the Brewers in the game if not the race with two homers earlier.
