David Ross Using ‘That Dad Feeling’ to Navigate Rookie Managerial Campaign

David Ross, wears a mask at practice. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski)Remember when naysayers decried the Cubs’ hiring of David Ross as Theo Epstein putting a yes-man in the managerial role? Ross couldn’t manage his former teammates, or so the criticism went, because they were his buddies and they’d just walk all over him. While anyone who’d harbored such fallacious beliefs probably isn’t swayed by a week’s worth of games, it’s pretty obvious to everyone else that the transition from Grandpa Rossy to Manager David is going quite well.

We could actually go back to his first few days on the job, when spring training was still a thing and players were reporting to camp without a care in the world…