Anthony Rizzo runs the Gauntlet on the Yak

The Gauntlet leaderboard is the Yak's permanent record, and nobody gets out of the building without a row on it. Rizzo's went up mid-show, filed under the Cubs.

Big Cat

@BarstoolBigCat

Good catch by @ARizzo44 on The Gauntlet leaderboard

So where does 2:42.04 land? Dead in the middle. 133rd of 397 overall is respectable, and 24th of 39 on the MLB board means about two dozen ballplayers have come through and done it faster. Not an embarrassment, not a record. Big Cat's "good catch" line is a baseball pun on the guy who spent a decade catching throws at first base, and the clip itself is just the scoreboard, so the run stays a mystery. We get the time and that's all we get.

Rizzo is a year into retirement. He went out as a Cub at a Wrigley Field ceremony on September 13, 2025, after 14 MLB seasons, 242 homers in a Cubs uniform and the 2016 World Series that ended the drought. The Cubs made him an official team ambassador, so the Cubs tag on the leaderboard checks out.

Retirement hasn't slowed him down. The day before the Yak, he ran a Bank of America youth clinic for about 100 kids at James Ward Elementary in Chicago, then went to a White Sox playoff game with his family. He's also training for the Chicago Marathon to raise awareness for pediatric cancer, which matters a lot to him: he survived cancer himself and started a foundation around it. Marathon legs, mid-table Gauntlet time. The cardio apparently doesn't help much with whatever the Yak puts you through.

Rizzo wasn't the only one making a debut, either. Kevin Rizzo, a little red dachshund, got his first lap around the Barstool backyard.

Dante 🇺🇸

@DanteTheDon

Kevin Rizzo making his @backyardstool debut. @ARizzo44

The Instagram story tags the Rizzo family's accounts, so Kevin seems to have come along for the trip. Honestly, the dog might have had the better day. Nobody timed him and nobody ranked him. He just got to walk around the backyard and get a hug.

Next up for Rizzo is the Chicago Marathon. That race has a lot more than 397 runners, and nobody's putting the results on a Windows 95 scoreboard. Until then, 2:42.04 is the number he gets ribbed about whenever he comes back to the Yak, and a guy this competitive is going to want another shot at the 23 MLB players ahead of him.