Welcome home, Anthony
You'll recognize the Cubs. They're basically back to where they were when you left.
On Saturday, Anthony Rizzo officially retired from baseball, and he returned to the Cubs to do it. If it seems like an obvious move, I can see that. Anthony will always be remembered first and foremost as a Chicago Cub. They were his third (of four) organizations, but he played 10 of his 14 seasons for them, he hit 242 of his 303 career homers for them, he won all four of his Gold Gloves and his Platinum Glove for them, he was a three-time All-Star and all for the Cubs, and he won his World Series for them.
But the end wasn't great. Before his final season as a Cub, they offered him a contract that he thought was an insult to what he had meant to the team and they told him they'd get back to him with a revised one that they never did. When they traded him, they sent him to the Yankees and he played in the playoffs three of his four years there and last year he went back to the World Series, where he played in the final game of his career there.
Rizzo is only 36. As a power-hitting first baseman he probably thought he'd play longer than this, but he didn't slug very well either of his final two seasons (just 20 homers total) and nobody called over the winter.
So on Saturday he returned to the place where he'll always be remembered the most fondly, because Anthony Rizzo wasn't just a Chicago Cub, he was the first real cornerstone on which the team that gave us the impossible was built on.
