PARKLAND, Fla. -- When Anthony Rizzo watched the documentary of the World Series, he was struck by something Cubs teammate Ben Zobrist said about the seven-game battle against the Indians.
"Zobrist's line stuck out -- 'We knew it was going to be hard, but we didn't think it was going to be this hard,'" Rizzo said of an interview in the Major League Baseball-produced film. "We knew with the so-called curse and against all odds, everything that's happened to the Cubs, that it wasn't going to be easy, but we didn't think it would be that close.