The Lovable Reunion
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Chicago Cubs’ legendary 2016 World Series win, Anthony Rizzo and David Ross are teaming up to take fans where they’ve never been before, inside the clubhouse. In each episode, they sit down with members of the 2016 team to uncover untold stories about their individual roles in breaking the historic drought. The Lovable Reunion will feature conversations with teammates including Jon Lester, Kris Bryant, Kyle Schwarber, Jake Arrieta, Cubs manager Joe Maddon, and more. Through intimate, long-form interviews, each player shares the season from their own perspective, offering insight into the moments, decisions, and emotions that defined the run.
Episodes
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Former Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein join Anthony Rizzo and David Ross to discuss joining the Cubs from the Boston Red Sox, bringing Rizzo to Chicago, developing baseball players, the MLB Draft, hiring Joe Maddon, and building the Cubs roster piece by piece, including players like Jon Lester, Dexter Fowler, and Aroldis Chapman. He also gets into the Cubs&rsquo...
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This week on The Lovable Reunion podcast, Jason Heyward joins David Ross and Anthony Rizzo. Heyward reflects on his incredible MLB career, from his start in the majors with the Atlanta Braves, to choosing the Chicago Cubs in free agency, to becoming one of the clubhouse leaders on the 2016 World Series championship team. He tells the full story behind his iconic Game 7 rain delay speech, ...
This week on The Lovable Reunion, David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by former Chicago Cubs pitcher Travis Wood and coach Mike Borzello. They discuss surviving the dark days with the Cubs, Joe Maddon’s managerial style, being down 3-1 to the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series, the epic Games 6 and 7, the championship parade, and more stories from an unforgettable MLB season.
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Ben Zobrist joins Anthony Rizzo and David Ross on the Lovable Reunion podcast to relive the Chicago Cubs' unforgettable 2016 World Series championship. Ben tells stories about his decision to sign with Chicago after winning a title with the Kansas City Royals, what made Joe Maddon such a special manager, his iconic Game 7 go-ahead double, the emotional rain delay meeting led by Jason Heyward, Rossy's famous speech when the Cubs fel...
This week on The Lovable Reunion, David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by their former strength coach on the Chicago Cubs, Tim Buss. The trio discusses MLB Spring Training pranks, why the 2016 season felt different, Yu Darvish’s smoking habit, the World Series comeback against the Cleveland Indians after Rajai Davis’s home run, Jason Heyward’s speech during the Game 7 rain delay, the uncashed $10,000 check that...
On this episode of The Lovable Reunion, David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by their former Chicago Cubs teammate Addison Russell, who tells stories of his grand slam in the 2016 World Series, Starlin Castro’s mentorship, Jason Heyward’s amazing speech during the epic Game 7 rain delay, and more great stories from Chicago’s iconic MLB postseason run.
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David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts on The Lovable Reunion to look back at the team’s 2016 World Series title over the Cleveland Indians. The trio discuss Jon Lester recruiting David Ross, Theo Epstein’s first meeting with the team, the morning after Game 7 of the World Series, Tom meeting his wife in the bleachers at Wrigley Field, and much more.
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David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by former teammates Justin Grimm and Mike Montgomery as they discuss their baseball journeys to the Chicago Cubs, the mindset of pitching from the bullpen, what it was like being managed by Joe Maddon, the crucial roles they each played in the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, and more.
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On this episode of The Lovable Reunion, Dexter Fowler joins David Ross and Anthony Rizzo to look back at their time together on the Chicago Cubs. They discuss their favorite memories from the 2016 season, including stories about the MLB All-Star Game, Joe Maddon, Bill Murray, being on ‘Saturday Night Live’ after winning the World Series, and more moments from inside the clubhouse.
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Anthony Rizzo and David Ross are joined by former 2016 Chicago Cubs teammates Albert Almora, Matt Szczur, and Chris Coghlan to share never told stories of their World Series team. The guys reminisce about their hatred of the St. Louis Cardinals as the Cubs went from bottom feeder to World Series contenders, Chris being traded away and traded back to the Cubs during the championship season, Matt lending his bat to Rizzo to break his...
David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by their former hitting coaches on the Chicago Cubs, John Mallee and Eric Hinske. They dive deep into the art of being a hitting coach, Joe Maddon’s leadership, and more behind-the-scenes moments from the 2016 World Series run. Plus, don’t miss incredible stories from their MLB coaching careers working with Shohei Ohtani on the Los Angeles Dodgers and Bryce Harper on the Philadelp...
On this episode of The Lovable Reunion, David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by former Chicago Cubs pitchers Jake Arrieta and John Lackey. They discuss Arrieta and Lackey’s MLB careers, the evolution of pitchers in baseball, how the 2015 Cubs set the stage for their World Series championship one year later in 2016, the wild Cubs-Pirates 2015 Wild Card game, facing the Dodgers and Giants in the 2016 postseason, coming back ...
David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by former Chicago Cubs teammate Kyle Schwarber to look back at his journey to the MLB, his transition from catcher to outfielder, their hilarious tribute video for Jon Lester before he retired, the 2016 Cubs World Series team, overcoming his season-long injury to rejoin the team against the Cleveland Indians, the emotional Game 7 rain delay, and more incredible stories from his baseball caree...
This week on The Lovable Reunion podcast, David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by former Chicago Cubs teammate and NL MVP Kris Bryant to look back at their magical 2016 title run and Bryant’s baseball career. The trio breaks down the epic World Series Game 5 at Wrigley Field, Joe Maddon’s leadership, hilarious clubhouse stories, what it felt like to beat the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 to become MLB champions, and mo...
Anthony Rizzo and David Ross welcome MLB legend Jon Lester to The Lovable Reunion podcast to discuss the star pitcher’s decision to join the Chicago Cubs after playing for the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics, the time he snapped at Rizzo for something he said to the media, surprising Ross with a standing ovation, why he took himself out of Game 5 of the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, the moment that cha...
David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by former Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon on The Lovable Reunion podcast to reminisce about their 2016 World Series title over the Cleveland Indians. They discuss Maddon’s journey to joining the Cubs, get his perspective on how to be a successful baseball manager, and share stories from their magical MLB postseason run together.
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David Ross and Anthony Rizzo celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their 2016 Chicago Cubs World Series championship by kicking off their new podcast, The Lovable Reunion. Over the course of the next three months, they will talk with manager Joe Maddon as well as former teammates Jon Lester, Kris Bryant, Jake Arrieta, Kyle Schwarber, and others about Chicago’s magical title run to break the team’s 108 year Curse of the B...
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Chicago Cubs’ legendary 2016 World Series win, Anthony Rizzo and David Ross are teaming up to take fans where they’ve never been before, inside the clubhouse. In each episode, they sit down with members of the 2016 team to uncover untold stories about their individual roles in breaking the historic drought. The Lovable Reunion will feature conversations with teammates including J...
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