MESA, Ariz. — David Ross tried to look on the bright side. What else was there to do? Positive thinking is baked into the rookie manager’s bones.
He was home with the flu, and that meant missing what should’ve been his first game as Cubs skipper. And his second. And his third. It was only spring training, but still. What kind of twisted feel-good narrative was this?
Again, though: the bright side. There was one. There always is.
“I didn’t have to talk baseball with anybody,” he said. “Literally, it was just me and my dog.