The Rundown: Shooter Would Have Loved Rizzo, Cubs Need to Earn Fans’ Trust, Lindor Concerned ‘Analytics Taking Over Baseball’

“Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let’s go!” – Aubrey Plaza

The best non-baseball Cubs news I’ve heard this winter is that Anthony Rizzo has an affinity for pizza now and then. As someone who has earned every single pound of my COVID-19 weight, I totally relate. Nothing wrong with sporting a dad bod whether you’re in Florida, Milwaukee, Chicago, or Mesa.

“I’ll never stop eating pizza,” Rizzo told reporters Monday, the Cubs’ first day of full-squad workouts.

A man after my own heart.

It’s difficult to compare generations, but before the steroids boom last century, baseball players were not what one would refer to as physical specimens. I remember seeing Mark Grace interviewed while he was shirtless and I was taken aback at just how out of shape he looked, much like Steve Rogers before he became Captain America. I…