He's also only considering loyalty going one way. The Cubs seem to have made very fair offers to all their stars. They chose to pursue a bigger paycheck. Nothing against them - this is their one chance to get that fat paycheck. Just don't complain about loyalty afterwards. I sort of agree with you, but the offers were considered to be below fair market value at the time. But in a free market, the value is what you can get. I think Rizzo is upset because he signed a below-market value extension while they were blowing smoke up his ass about being the face of the franchise and other ego-boosting nonsense and when it came time to pay him all the sudden it was a cold numbers game. I'm a labor guy, so in my mind, they kind of treated him pretty horsefeathers, if you can call multi-millions of dollars that. I get it, but when he signed that $73M extension (about $30M was club options, to be clear), he was far from a certainty to be worth anything close to that. He was pretty bad in 2013. I also don't think the offers were below fair market value. I wouldn't have wanted the Cubs to sign him to the deal they offered him. Anyway, he's a selfish anti-vax idiot so whatever