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| New Padre Anthony Rizzo |
21-year old Anthony Rizzo has made his way through the Padres tunnel for the first time and there were four television cameras there to watch him do it. If Rizzo thought his time to shine was not going to come until the first pitch, he thought wrong. But Rizzo handled the cameras that became his shadow like a 21st year veteran as opposed to the first day rookie he actually is. Even the ribbing from teammates could not faze his calm persona.
“Hey Rizzo,” teammate Orlando Hudson called from the dugout while Rizzo was taking fielding practice at first base. “Baby they got all the cameras on you! When you move they move baby! After nine years you get over that, they don’t care about you after that!”
Rizzo just acknowledged Hudson’s teasing, his grin a mixture of gladness at being accepted as one of the guys but uncertainty at the heart behind the teasing. With Anthony Rizzo being listed in black and white on the starting roster, the game will decide if the kid if worth the hype.
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