The importance of Anthony Rizzo.

When did you fall in love with Anthony Rizzo?
Because we know what kind of a player he is.
The Captain.
Arguably the greatest glove at first, both clutch and power with the bat.
Was it the first time you saw him come up to the plate and basically stand on top of it as if it were his?
Was it when you first heard he beat cancer? When he and Kris Bryant became Bryzzo? How about the end of last year when he came back and played on an ankle so black and blue and swollen it made me hurl? 
Maybe when he left camp to go speak at his old high school after a gunman went crazy and shot 17 students?
Was it his OMG! when he reached third base after Zobrist hit The Double, when the Cubs took the lead for good in the Greatest Game Ever Played?
What about when he decided he'd heard enough from the Reds' dugout, chucked his hat and glove and calmly challenged them to come out and get some?
Or in August of 2014, when he confidently said, "If we're going to do anything in the near future, we need to take care of our division first. Because that's how you stay in the race. And you want to be contending this time next year."
Maybe it was the first game of this screwed up year, when he gave the Brewers' Orlando Arcia some hand sanitizer?


Or it could have been yesterday, when emotion boiled over and he said that politicians really don't give a f#ck about us.
Over at Bleacher Report, they put it this way, he "... expressed his frustration with the suffering that is going on in many parts of the country after the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the lack of response from politicians.."
Balls?
You bet.
There are so many problems happening in the world, you wonder at how and why they're even playing baseball right now.
What must it be like to be a professional ballplayer in 2020?
How can you focus on a game?

Maybe you say what you feel. 

Anthony Rizzo is both old school and a completely modern Cub.
I'll root for him always.