Paul Sullivan: Anthony Rizzo and David Ross team up for ‘The Lovable Reunion’ for Cubs’ 10-year anniversary
CHICAGO — The 2026 season has begun, and while Jed Hoyer hopes the “next great Cubs team” he began building in 2021 is finally here, fans at Wrigley Field will spend much of 2026 celebrating the last great Cubs team. A team reunion for the 10-year anniversary of the 2016 World Series championship is scheduled for July 18, and reminders of that special season will be on display from opening day through the end of the summer. Like the 1985 Bears, the 2016 Cubs will never really go away.
Former Cubs Anthony Rizzo and David Ross, meanwhile, have decided to get the party started early. Rizzo and Ross have teamed up again to produce a new podcast, “The Lovable Reunion,” which begins April 1 on Colin Cowherd’s The Volume network. Rizzo said the podcast will focus on the 2016 season from the start “through Game 7 and the speech.
” And if you don’t know what “the speech” refers to, you’re probably not a Cubs fan and can skip the rest. While “TLR” is obviously a Cubs-themed podcast, it’s not part of the Cubs marketing department or run by the organization. The two old friends insist they’ll have complete control over the content, guiding us through the 2016 season, where fans wearing “Just One Before I Die” T-shirts got permission to die happy.
“This is us alone,” Rizzo said. “Me and Rossy were talking, and with the 10-year reunion we wanted to do this. Whenever we all get together we just sit down and everyone tells stories.
I always wanted to do a podcast after I was playing, and (Ian) Happ tried to always get me to do one while I was playing, but it was too much of a commitment. “This was like a perfect segue for us to see if we’d like doing it together. We were like, if worst comes to worst, it would still be therapeutic to talk about the whole run in 2016.
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