Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
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:


Posted by David Pinto at 11:34 PM | Management | TrackBack (0)
Comments

OMG I just did exactly the same fucking post with exactly the same clip. I swear I didn't get the idea from you.

Posted by: Steven at February 28, 2009 09:06 AM

I think Rizzo came from the DBacks scouting and is responsible for all the great prospects that the DBacks once had.

Posted by: Charlie W at February 28, 2009 12:06 PM

Any relation to Frank Rizzo? If so he will get that chisle chested organization straightened out fast.

Posted by: dave at February 28, 2009 01:40 PM
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