May 14--Anthony Rizzo's day off Thursday was sealed with a kiss -- from the lips of a seal.
"It was a wet kiss," Rizzo said.
Other than that, Rizzo's lips pretty much were sealed Friday about his trip to Shedd Aquarium a day before his team began a three-game series against the Pirates at Wrigley Field.
Rizzo said he's not a museum aficionado but thought it was "something cool to do" on the team's fifth off day of the season.
Rizzo posted a photo of the Kodak moment Thursday on Twitter. "This one couldn't come to Wrigley so I went to her," he tweeted.
Long before Rizzo's visit with the animals, he had forgotten about his team's two-game losing streak, the first of its kind this young season.
"When did we lose those games?" he joked.
That would have been Wednesday, which might as well be never in Rizzo's mind.
"They were in the rearview (mirror) 30 minutes after the last time I played," he said. "That's the way it is; it's baseball.
"We understand that people live and die on it, but we have to take care of what we have to take care of in here."
Rizzo's boss, Joe Maddon, said he spent Thursday enjoying a massage, a good dinner and catching two episodes of "11.22.63," a miniseries based on Stephen King's sci-fi novel about a man who is convinced that with time travel he can prevent President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
But Maddon said he needs to change his ways when it comes to off days and down time.
"I'm still disappointed in myself. I have not gotten back into my reading," he said. "I really feel like my brain is shrinking, rapidly."
He's almost back: Miguel Montero is almost back, Maddon said, after a stiff back landed the catcher on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 25.
Montero was batting .208 with a home run and six RBIs before the injury.
"He's doing really well. He and I were texting last night, so any day now," Maddon said. "We're working on putting it together right now."
