If we had a nickel for every time Anthony Rizzo's caught a Cubs home run in the bleachers, we'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice!
My favorite thing about baseball is its uniqueness tbh. Every stadium is different. NFL/NBA/NHL all have a set field. Baseball has a 37 foot tall wall, balls can get lost in ivy, a stadium used to have a hill in play. Every stadium is unique and beautiful in its own way
Voy a contarles algo de Daniel Palencia…
Firmó en 2020, con apenas 20 años, y recibió un bono de solo 10.000 dólares. Un número que para muchos no decía nada.
Pero el talento no siempre viene con etiquetas grandes.
Debutó en Grandes Ligas el 4 de julio de 2023 con los Chicago Cubs, y en Venezuela defendió los colores de Magallanes en 2024.
Hoy, es el CERRADOR de los Cubs… y también fue el cerrador de Venezuela, la selección que hizo historia y se coronó campeona del Clásico Mundial de Béisbol 2026.
¿Sus números en el torneo?
Simplemente PERFECTOS:
5.0 innings lanzados
0 carreras
0 hits
0 boletos
9 ponches
Dominio total.
Daniel Palencia es la prueba de algo muy claro:
El bono no hace al pelotero…
El trabajo, la constancia y la mentalidad sí.
No one knows you. No one has a story about who you are. No one is waiting for you to be the person you were yesterday. You're just a stranger in a chair by the window, watching a city that doesn't need anything from you.
It's the feeling that anything could happen. That the world is bigger than the walls you built around yourself back home. That the life you've been living is just one version of a life, and there are others, and they're not as far away as you thought.
At home, you're fixed. Known. You fit into a shape that other people recognize, and after a while, you forget you're even in a shape at all. But here, alone, somewhere new, the shape dissolves. You could be anyone. You could be more of yourself than you've ever been. No one is watching to see if you stay consistent.