Road-weary Anthony Rizzo packed nothing but uniform for Cubs' trip: 'It's all good love'
Channel: Good America
Date: 2018-09-14

WASHINGTON – Road life in the major leagues is all about numbing repetition, the rhythm so unbroken that players can practically sleepwalk from city to city.

Bags in 15. Buses in 30. Plane. Bus. Hotel, by sunrise.

Anthony Rizzo upended that script. After all, why pack a bag when there’s nothing in it, anyway?

Call it a silent protest, or an attempt to maintain sanity, or maybe just a merry distraction as Rizzo and his Chicago Cubs teammates endure a monthlong odyssey of endless baseball. But Rizzo’s decision to wear his full Cubs uniform – and nothing else - on the team’s 20-hour trip to the nation’s capital for a makeup game may go down as an isolated moment of goofiness, or a touchstone in the club’s slog toward the playoffs.

The Cubs last had a true off day on Aug. 20, and even that was spent between series in Pittsburgh and Detroit. They will not be off again until Sept. 20, their first off day at home since Aug. 9.


And when last weekend’s four-game series at Nationals Park featured two postponements, one doubleheader, 11 hours of rain delays vs. just 10 hours of actual baseball, the Cubs could do nothing but grit their teeth.