Nick Friedell talks viral moment with Anthony Rizzo in Wrigley bleachers
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We've got a special treat for you. You love him. You hate him. You can't live without him. He's our good buddy, Nick Friedel.
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That tweet came from a dashingly good-looking Nick Friedel. Let's bring in Nick Friedel now. Patrick Bushy hits the home run against his hometown team, and the ball lands right at Anthony Rizzo's feet in the right field bleachers. That is unbelievable. Riz is a magnet for balls when he sits in the bleachers. That's twice. Riz, come back again tomorrow.
With Rahimi Harrison-Grody. Uh-oh. On 104.3 The Score.
You know, it's only fitting in some weird, I don't know, red string theory-like concept of some time is a flat circled timeline. Take whatever arc and comparison to history that you would like to do, or maybe this is the darkest timeline, but either way. Oh, no, no, no.
There's darker timelines.
Somehow Nick Friedel ends up as part yet again of the 2016 Cubs celebration. He's our Odyssey NBA insider. He joins us via our hotline. He's also on Twitch, twitch.tv slash the score Chicago. Nick, what the hell? Like, why are you on my TV behind Anthony Rizzo and the bleachers? Like it's like game seven all over again, where you're standing with your hands on your head and the surrender Cobra just going back and forth.
Yeah, I mean, the only thing that was missing was looking like I was about to throw up when CJ Edwards was out there and trying to get those last couple outs. But Layla, the fact that this is now at the end of Mark Shanowski and our dear friend Stacy King introducing me, and it's part of the lore of whatever I do moving forward is pretty awesome. And the short version of the whole sequence is that a buddy of mine had... It tipped me off that he thought that the 2016 guys were going to sit in the bleachers. But as anybody who knows that was down there on Saturday knows, it was pouring. So I started to go, oh man, I don't know if this is actually still going to happen. So we get up to the bleachers.
And what's truly insane before the home run even happens is that the 2016 guys are standing in the back of center field. just waiting because they got introduced and were pulling the flags up before they got introduced uh down on the field so i'm standing there and you walk up and there's miggy montero and there's you know david ross and lester and any guy that you could think of so anybody that had that moment of five or ten minutes in the bleachers one of the the security guys was going okay just highs and buys everyone eyes and buys so i look out to where they kind of had blocked off the seats in the bleachers, and I sat in the first row where the rope wasn't. And so I was like, all right, well, this should be interesting.
But when we sat down, nobody was there. Everybody was still kind of filling in. And my guess, looking back, is I just must have looked like one of the family members that had started to pile in, and nobody really said anything. And a few minutes went by, and here comes... Rizzo's dad and his wife, because I had seen them at the ceremony earlier that morning. And so another five or ten minutes go by, and I mean, Layla, literally, I was sending my friends a picture. The person that sat in front of me in the bleachers was Anthony Rizzo in his blue jersey from Game 7. And my friend's like, you've got to be kidding me. And Rizzo sits down, he goes, last time I was out here, somebody hit a ball to me.
You've got to be kidding. He said that?
It was crazy. And so then Bush hits the ball, and I'm thinking, no way. Come on. And Rizzo stands up, and you're like, oh, this is just meant to be. And the ball, as we know, goes right off his hand, and he's holding his son. And I look down, and the ball is literally on my foot. No way. And what pissed me off from a year ago is that he was trying to catch that ball from a year ago and I didn't feel like anybody ever gave it back to him. I mean, that was his ball. It was hit to him. He just didn't make the play because I think he had a beer in his hand the first time.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–6:11
2
How did Nick Friedell end up sitting behind Anthony Rizzo in the Wrigley bleachers?
6:11–8:40
3
What was the setup and crowd reaction before the pitching change and home run?
8:40–17:15
4
How did the home run ball land near Anthony Rizzo and what did Nick see?
17:15–20:15
Speakers
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