Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo choked up a little when he talked about his father on the field in Minute Maid Park after the Nats’ victory in the World Series this past October. Rizzo’s feelings for his dad, a long-time scout and a senior advisor to his son in the front office in D.C. for the past 11 seasons, were clear, as was his joy over the fact that his father got to see the club win it all.
“It means a lot,” Rizzo told MASN’s Bob Carpenter.
“It means everything. For my dad who’s been doing it a long time, ‘Dad, we did it.