The Michigan State men's basketball team beat Ohio State last night in Columbus, breaking the Buckeye's 39-game home winning streak and tying Ohio State for first place in the Big Ten Conference. It was never very close, and with less than two minutes to play and Ohio State trailing by ten points, some of their fans obviously lost hope and decided to beat the crowd to the parking lot. The television camera briefly showed people leaving their seats and moving up the aisles, and I said out loud, "And that starts the fans for the exits."
That just popped right out of my mouth, just like all those other things that are stored away in my Jack Brickhouse Chicago Cubs WGN Television Baseball Game Broadcasts Depository. I missed that one a couple weeks ago when I wrote about the things Brickhouse always said that I still say when an occasion fits the pronouncement.
People often left Wrigley Field before a game was over when the Cubs were losing so badly there was no hope of a comeback, but what prompted a lot of them to get up and leave all at once, and Brickhouse to comment on it, was generally one bad thing that happened late in the game -- a scoring play in the top of the ninth that put the game out of reach, or some last chance the Cubs flubbed in the bottom of the inning.
There have been a lot of years when that happened to the Cubs in a lot of games. But we suited up for 'em all.
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