When the 2016 Cubs walked into the Wrigley Field clubhouse Thursday evening, their lockers were set up just the way they had been that championship season, each of their jerseys hanging as if it were a game day.“The only thing that was missing was [Jon] Lester and [John] Lackey’s beer fridge,” recently-retired Cubs great Anthony Rizzo joked.Instead, former Cubs catcher Miguel Montero noted that there was a bar set up next to his locker.“It was honestly like we had just won a playoff series,” Rizzo said Saturday on the stage at Cubs Convention. “Because that’s what we did after we won playoff series, we’d literally party in the clubhouse, or we went to [Jon] Lester’s house, or somewhere in Wrigleyville.“That’s what it felt like again. The families were there, the wives were there. The only thing different was the kids are 10 years older. So that was a little bit of a mind trick.”The 10-year anniversary celebration of the 2016 World Series team kicked off with a reunion at Wrigley Field on Thursday. Coaches, staff, front office members and most of the roster – “really good turnout,” as president Jed Hoyer said, but missing Kris Bryant, Jake Arrieta, Jorge Soler, Tommy La Stella and Hectór Rondón – gathered with their families the night before Cubs Convention officially opened.The party carried on into the weekend. Cubs Convention’s opening ceremony centered around the 2016 team. Lester was named a Cubs Hall of Famer, with an induction ceremony set for this summer. And…
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