The last year has been so long. How long has it been?
“It feels like it’s been seven,” Cubs manager David Ross estimated. “I don’t know how to put that in perspective. There’s been a lot.”
Seven sounds about right, doesn’t it? It certainly has been a year unlike any other in sports and in baseball, which turned off the lights last March 12 as pandemic-related concerns intensified.
Not quite a year since that portentous day, Ross was asked if — let’s say on March 10, 2020 — he saw the shutdown coming.
“It wasn’t really on my radar,” he admitted.