Is it the bat phone? A hotline to the Kremlin?
Just who exactly is supposed to be on the other end of that red phone in the Cubs’ dugout when the returning home run slugger takes the call?
“I can’t discuss that,” Cubs second baseman/outfielder Ian Happ says.
Happ was a co-instigator in the dugout waffle-maker shtick last season, a celebration of “waffled” drives by Cub hitters that became so popular with fans that they sent him enough waffle makers to open a kiosk at the local mall.
The year before that he was Tommy La Stella’s dugout-prop apprentice for teammate “interviews” after La Stella found an old radio microphone in a dusty corner at Wrigley Field.