 The Anthony Rizzo Foundation does amazing stuff raising money for cancer research and providing support to children and their families battling the disease. So the Yes Network and Anthony Rizzo and the Anthony Rizzo Foundation are getting together for an amazing opportunity to bid on amazing memorabilia and experiences. You can check this all out on Anthony's website, Rizzo44.com. Don, listen to some of the things you can bid on here, okay? Okay. This one's crazy. 30-minute hitting lesson with Aaron Judge and John Carlos Stanton. Oh, that's incredible. I mean, what? Plus exclusive passes to batting practice and two tickets to the game the same night. Four tickets to this year's Cubs Reds game at Field of Dreams plus a meet and greet with Frank Thomas. That's pretty mage also. Very much. I've got to tell you, Don, I think I'd like to go to a Field of Dreams game one day. If this continues to be a thing. It was huge last year. I mean, it wasn't great for the Yankees, they blew a lead, but it was still incredible. How about this? 30-minute pitching lesson with a guy you may be familiar with, Garrett Cole. Yeah. That's the guy. And, Don, you used to pitch in high school, maybe there's something good for you to bid on. See, may you test things out? See what you still got. See what I still have. Yeah, whether I've aged well. I think the answer is no, but you never know. What do you think your high speed was at when you were in high school? What would you get? Ooh, that's a good question. I don't know. I think I might have been able to get in the high 70s maybe. That's what I would think. I mean, because if you told me you were comfortably in the 80s, that would have meant you went to another level. So my guess would be you were your max now, probably 76, 77. Yeah, I would say when I was like, you know, by senior year of high school, yes. Now what I could throw now and still have a rotator cuff? I know. That's the problem is anytime I throw a baseball, I immediately feel like- Oh, you feel it right down. And it's a shooting pain right down your arm. It's so crazy. Like you can chuck a ball around, but if you start trying to really let it go, I have the exact same thing. Really, really cool stuff. How about this? Also at Rizzo44.com, you can get a ball signed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. We bring them in right now, Anthony Rizzo. You've done so many awesome charitable things with families who have a child with cancer over the years. What's it like for you now to get to bring your foundation and this work to New York, Anthony? It's amazing. You know, I think what we do as baseball players and the platform that we have to be able to give back and help out in ways that don't just have to do with baseball is something that is such a great return. Your teammates, by the way, are obviously on board, man. You got Stanton and Judge to do a BP. How excited were they about doing that? Great. When you ask guys for the time, throughout the year, it's always tough, but for a call like this, they know how much it means to me. They're excited. I mean, it'll be fun doing a lesson with three of us. I think whoever wins that will definitely be in for a treat. But you know, Garrett, doing a pitch and lesson is really nice. Just guys, you know, it just shows about the guys and them wanting to give back as well. Is it a challenge, Anthony? Can you go from one team to another, one city to another to be able to keep abreast of what's happening to the charity and then take those contributions and what you do with the charity with you? I mean, yes, I think I give credit to my team as far as my wife, Emily, my mom, my dad, Abby runs the foundation. They've really helped with everything. But I think now that we've settled in to be able to really anchor down here, especially for this year and the next year that we can start making an impact off the field as well. I look at you as somebody that is becoming a leader because of the fact that you've won. I mean, as great as this team is, there's not a lot of guys with rings. So how often do you find yourself talking about winning the ring and what it takes? Is that something that players around you pick your brain about? I think there's a fine line. I think when we're sitting around talking to baseball stories and talk to baseball talk, I think with this team, it's definitely a special group that has the highest of high expectations and we embrace those expectations and we've been playing into them. I think every conversation we've had has been amazing and when we do talk about winning, I mean everyone's on the same page about what it's going to take to get it done. What's it like for you after spending so long in Chicago and you're so beloved there and obviously it's a place you care about deeply, we just talked a lot over the last few weeks about Freddie Freeman leaving Atlanta and how difficult that was for him. What was it like for you, A, transitioning out of Chicago and B, getting comfortable in the Bronx? It was hard. It was definitely hard getting traded midseason, first time. Being in Chicago for so long was obviously very clear I wanted to stay in Chicago and it didn't work out. But being traded to another major market, the biggest market in New York, my wife has family up here who's just a great situation and we really love the city. We really love playing against stadium, the fan base, the passion everyone has. So it's been it's been a lot of fun just getting ingrained in this team. Passion comes in different forms, right? Because in Chicago, it's a different type of passion. I always tell the story. I went to game three of the league championship series in in 15 and and you guys lost. You were down three games to none. I was leaving Wrigley Field and the fans didn't seem upset. I mean, they were they were upset, but they weren't they weren't crazed because they just love their cubs. But in New York, it's just a different type of passion. Was that an adjustment you had to make? There were winning is expected and the disappointment is shown more. Honestly, not really because that's the expectation that. I personally put on myself and I feel like our team puts on ourselves. So I feel like playing in Chicago for so long has definitely helped being able to come here and not really be too fazed by outside noise. I think the longer you play this game, the more experiences you go through in this game, the outside noise, you're able to minimize it a lot more. That's for sure. Speaking of the outside noise here on our show recently, Anthony, like and we've been we've been sort of fighting back against it in some ways, but a lot of the noise about your teammate Joey Gallo, who's been struggling and a lot of the fans are quick to voice their opinion about it. You are in a leadership position on this team. What do you say to Joey in a situation like this? What do you say to a teammate when they're struggling with the bat like this? I mean, we've all struggled before and when you're when you're struggling, it sucks. But Joey Joey's. You know, he's been a big leader for a long time and he's a great person. He works hard. He's a great teammate. So all the little things that go into it, you know, the results in this game on the outside world, I guess, define you. But on the inside, that's not what's really defined you in this clubhouse. And, you know, we we all have great conversations, but really enjoy hanging out with Joey. Baseball wise, it's just, you know, sometimes when one thing clicks, it just goes off and he has a pedigree of hitting a lot of home runs in a short amount of time and a long amount of time. So when that does go off, it hopefully it's something to we could all just sit back and enjoy. Is he good in the room? Is does he bring a leadership as well to this team? Joey's Joey's really undercover funny. OK. He we all I mean, we all hang out. We all get along. I think everyone on this team has their their leadership. Qualities, but I mean, I love playing with them and I love them off the field as well. You know, but the reason I ask that is because it's so easy for fans to look at the batting average. But there's other things that go into being a great teammate and being a contributor to a first place team. And I think fans just kind of need to know the kind of player he is besides the 168 batting average that everybody harps on. Yeah, I mean, it's a listen, fans fans are passionate. I get it and they're going to be passionate. Doesn't matter how good you're doing or how bad you're doing. If you have a tough outing, fans are passionate and that's the way it goes. Anthony, back to the foundation, the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation. How did this all get started for you and why is it so near and dear to your heart? I, you know, I obviously went through cancer and just wanted to be able to give back, making it to the big leagues and helping out pediatric cancer. Everyone has pretty much been touched by cancer or someone has had cancer in their life. So for us to be able to raise a lot of money and help families directly is very special to us. Just because I know when we, when I was sick, the Red Sox helped us directly when I was with them and they paid for all our medical bills and really helped us out because, you know, the reality is sometimes families need to decide are they going to pay their bills or are they going to help save their child's life? Did your cancer put baseball in a different perspective for you? Yeah, I mean, it just puts life in a different perspective. You know, in life, I think when you get hit by hard reality, you have to raise a respond to it. You could either just attack it head on or you can kind of sit in sorrow in it. And for me, I hit it head on and just try to take every single day right now as you know, it's a new day and very grateful to be out here and just enjoying being on the Yankees, enjoy being in New York, enjoy sitting in the dugout on this interview, just enjoying the ride. Cool. Anthony, also you're also, you're very generous due to generally and we're a long time Parkland resident. And back in 2018, you spoke, it gave an emotional speech that a lot of people remember. Do you continue to be involved with the Parkland community? And obviously it's been a tough, it's been a tough couple of months, couple of years, long time in terms of gun violence in this country. Where are you at emotionally with it right now? Yeah, I mean, as far as Parkland, I'm there all the time. I mean, my parents still live there, my brother lives there, that's where I grew up. So, like I said, when something hits you near and dearly, you know, it just hits differently. And, you know, when things happen, I just wanted to be there for Parkland and the residents and help out anywhere I can, even if it was just a quick smile to escape reality for a few minutes. How about Judge's season? Just an incredible one in, you know, having to deal with the contract. How has he been as a teammate and how great is it to watch the kind of season he's putting together? He makes this whole train run. He's everything that I ever thought he was. It's what's more and I love playing with him. I love getting to know him more and more, our friendship, how he works, how he prepares every day. You can't say enough about him and you just see your results coming off. Hey, Anthony, thank you so much for your time. Everyone, get over to Rizzo44.com, bid on some of these amazing items and support a great cause. Thanks for making time and thanks for the work you're doing. Awesome, thank you very much. Thanks, man, good luck. There he is, Anthony Rizzo, of your New York Yankees. I like that guy. How could you not? Like he just... Honestly, everything he's been through and he's a leader on this team and he can try to downplay it. He's got a ring. You know, he got one of the most special rings you can get, Peter. No, I mean, Don. 2016 with the Cubs.