Cubs bullpen coach Chris Young walked past Tagliata, an Italian restaurant in Baltimore, last Wednesday on the way to get dinner with a couple other coaches, and spotted his relievers sitting down for a group dinner.
“I was not invited,” Young said, “which was the best part.”
The relievers saw him, and rookie Brandon Hughes sent a text to Young asking, Are you OK to eat carbs this late at night?
“So, that’s where our relationship’s at,” Young said, “Not invited to dinner by the group – it was a player’s thing, which is perfect – but then enough to come back on the way by and get a carb-loading joke at 9:30 when we get in from the road trip.