♪ [music] ♪ - [Anthony] I'm really excited to get going,
and feel really confident. - [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
Anthony Rizzo has just gone yard. - Hopefully, this is a building block in this city and
the organization, and I think there's a lot of good things to come. - Anthony out on right! - Go ahead. - Oh, yay! Homer. - Rizzo gets on the tarp…he makes the catch! - Good play by Rizzo, it's going to be a double play. How about that? - Rizzo on the ledge…he's got it! - [inaudible] by Rizzo,
and he'll take it to the bag, he has to hustle…and it's just in time. Anthony's fourth Rawlings Gold Glove award. Oh, look at Anthony Rizzo,
he's getting into the spirit of the thing here. Rizzo [inaudible] the Budweiser sign. Anthony Rizzo walks it off. Fly ball to center, Rizzo's ERA, zero. Two balls, two strikes. Oh, he struck him out! - What's up, Ethan? How are you, buddy? Long time no see. How you doing? ♪ [music] ♪ To be able to give back and do this type of work is
so much bigger than winning the World Series and do anything on a baseball field just because
my family has been through it, there are so many families here that are going through it,
and this is as real as it gets in life. - Anthony Rizzo of the Cubs was announced
as the 2017 Roberto Clemente Award winner. High fly, into right [inaudible] wall, [inaudible]. - I'm an emotional wreck. - [Player] Well, it's only going to get worse. - [inaudible] Cubs will take the lead. The Cubs win the World Series! ♪ [music] ♪ - We never quit! No, we never quit! No, we never... ♪ [music] ♪ - It happened, baby. It happened. ♪ [music] ♪
A contract would have been better.
Seeing Rizzo in anything but a Cubs jersey just feels so wrong.
I remember reading the breaking news about Theo and the Cubs trading for Rizzo from the Padres and him being the first major piece of the rebuild that would bring the Cubs their first World Series Championship in 108 years. Time flies.
You know, based on my flair, I know I'm supposed to be happy Rizzo's out of the NL Central and that the Cubs are weakened. I am not. Anthony Rizzo is one of THOSE players. The guy you root for even when he's playing against your team.
Though I am required to hate the Cubs, I feel nothing but a deep and abiding respect if not affection for Cubs fans. They do not deserve this.
I wish him well as a Yankee. The NL Central is less competitive and less interesting without Rizzo in a Cubs uniform.
Sad he didn’t get a proper goodbye today by not being in the lineup. Sorry Cubs fans (just this once)
I figured they would all be going, I just hoped he wouldn’t be the first one.
This is a mistake. You give Rizzo what he wants and he spends his life a cub, you retire 44, and build a statue. You don’t trade him.
Thank you Anthony Rizzo.
I mean, fuck. No Yankee fans are allowed to boo this man