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Balancing Act: If Lady Gaga (plus Rizzo and Skilling) can cry at work, why not the rest of us?

Turns out there is crying in baseball.

And pop music.

And meteorology.

Anthony Rizzo, Lady Gaga and Tom Skilling all treated us _ and I do mean treated us _ to their very public tears in the recently.

Rizzo during a ribbon cutting at Lurie Children's Hospital, in Chicago, to which his foundation committed $3.5 million for pediatric cancer programs.

"Lots of tears today," the Anthony Rizzo Foundation tweeted.

Gaga at Wrigley Field, where she paused the costume changes and power ballads for some

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