It took one day – one exhibition game into his managing career – for the Cubs’ David Ross to succumb to the flu and miss a game, eliciting the kind of concern and compassion you might expect from the boss.
“You’re no Lou Gehrig,” Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer texted Ross on Saturday.
Determined to push through on Sunday, Ross instead wound up in a nearby hospital for four to five hours getting fluids through an IV – with players texting him GIFs of fictional manager Lou Brown bouncing off a hospital bed in Major League 2.