February 27, 2009
The Cleaner
The Nationals sent Mike Rizzo to fix things in the Dominican Republic , and he put their players in a new facility in three days:
While in the Dominican, Rizzo visited that facility - which the team had rented from recently fired employee José Rijo. After scouting eight new locations, he settled on a complex in Boca Chica. The 2-1/2 fields at the new site are "gorgeous," Rizzo said, and the eight pitching mounds are "beautiful," and the players will be housed in a "beautiful resort," three to a room, with "air conditioning, cable TV, bathroom, four meals a day, 24-hour security." Washington's prospects were "exuberant" about the relocation, and received a pep talk about making it to the United States and helping the Nationals win a World Series.
"It's something that doesn't compare to anything I've ever done," Rizzo said on Friday. "It was - when we landed today, I said, 'Do you believe what just happened?' "
That success moves him up the ladder as a likely replacement for Jim Bowden.
If they ever make a movie about this, Harvey Keitel should play Rizzo:
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OMG I just did exactly the same fucking post with exactly the same clip. I swear I didn't get the idea from you.
I think Rizzo came from the DBacks scouting and is responsible for all the great prospects that the DBacks once had.
Any relation to Frank Rizzo? If so he will get that chisle chested organization straightened out fast.