Diamond Diehards

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. In this Quick Hits episode, Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy jumped on trying to give a primer for the second half of the season, but no sooner did the new break that COVID had once again F'd with the Yankees season, postponing the Thursday night game with the archirival Red Sox. So, of course, that dominated the conversation. But there was something else that happened al...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. It's raining in Queens, but everyone except the Brewers want Jacob deGrom to pitch, especially Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy. NOT TONIGHT! The game got rained out three minutes before the guys went on air, but that did not stop them from lamenting about what a deGrom start means in 2021. There are many sides to it! The Yanks head West with their hats their hands. Riz i...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. In a podcast about baseball and about life, Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy did their "Thursday Night Live" format, just after Jacob deGrom left the Mets-Braves game, trailing 3-2 after a "human" outing. deGrom allowed three of the first four batters in the game to score, but ended up with 14 strikeouts in 7 innings pitched. Listen in as Dawg labored through the bizarre...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. In a podcast about baseball and about life, Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy welcomed 1989 AL Rookie of the Year Gregg Olson to the show to tell his important story and harken back to his great career as one of the preeminent closers of his time. Olson explained the details of his recent prostate cancer diagnosis and how it came seemingly from out of nowhere, with no fami...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. In a podcast about baseball and about life, Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy went more of the "life" route for this episode. Riz went for a long walk on a Sunday, and LIFE happened. This is the story of June 6, 2021. This episode features the return of the Salmon Jacket, for those who want to see the video (links below). Dawg kicked it off with Veteran of the Day. It was...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Dawg brought back the livestream, as Jacob deGrom made his return to the hill at CitiField for the Mets, and the Toronto Blue Jays invaded The Bronx to take on the Yankees. The guys talked about what is ailing the NY teams, despite their relative success in the standings to this point of the season. Names mentioned on this episode include: Dominic Smith, James...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and "The Dawg" Jeff Healy "celebrated" Jarred Kelenic Day, as the Mariners' top prospect was promoted to the majors and set to play his first career big-league game. How did we get here? Riz & Dawg have debated the deal that sent Kelenic to Seattle since before it was official (Dec. 3, 2018), and now it was time for a retrospect and some background about their ma...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and "The Dawg" Jeff Healy did a Star Wars Day show, so May the 4th be with you! There was so much going on in baseball and the guys covered all the bases. Jacob deGrom got scratched from his start for the Mets in St. Louis as the guys were hitting the air, but they were able to go with it and do an early assessment of what this means to Dawg's club. There was an...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and "The Dawg" Jeff Healy did Tuesday Night Live, as the Yankees took on the Orioles and the Mets faced the Red Sox. While the games were going on with little incident, the guys broke into some serious critique of the structure of the Yankees roster. Riz & Dawg identified what they think are the critical flaws (not always in agreement). Riz came up with some idea...

Joe Rizzo (usually) brings you baseball. Riz gave the "A" seat to "The Dawg" Jeff Healy for this episode, which came on the one-year anniversary of Riz ending his two-week quarantine after contracting COVID. Dawg walked Riz through what happened during the time he had COVID. The guys recounted their landmark episode last year, when in the early days of Diamond Diehards, Dawg took over and walked R...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy bring you a special episode after doing a Facebook Live with Katie Martineau, the unique baseball mom behind our previous guest, 15-year-old Connecticut baseball player Lillian Martineau. Katie came on for a chat about things behind the scenes of helping her amazing daughter navigate the fun but sometimes difficult waters of being a girl t...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy welcomed in 15-year-old baseball player Lillian Martineau to talk about her love for the game and what it's like being a girl playing baseball in 2021. Lilli is from Connecticut and has played travel ball. She recently garnered headlines by making her high school JV team, for which she pitches, and plays first base and the outfield. She of...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy brought in Joe Lemire from SportTechie.com. Lemire broke Riz's heart in the seventh game of the Strat-O-Matic Elite Media Experts League and recounted what would be one of the most memorable games in MLB history ... if it was real. His Red Sox claimed seventh-game victory over Riz's Cardinals. Lemire (SportTechie.com, @LemireJoe on Twitter...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy brought in Steel City stample Rob Biertempfel, who covers the Pirates for The Athletic, to the show to talk about all things Pittsburgh. Rob went in depth about the recent history of the Pirates, the promise that Ke'Bryan Hayes has brought to the franchise, and reviewed the thought pattern behind his recent post of the 20 Greatest Moments...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball (now for a year!). Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy brought the show over the one-year threshold as they welcomed in frequent co-host/guest Jerry Milani to celebrate the memorable moments from Year One of Diamond Diehards. If you're new to us, find out the backstories of how the show began and get some insight into the backgrounds of Riz, Dawg and Jerry, who have known one...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz flew solo with Jeff "The Dawg" Healy taking this one off, and chatted about stories of baseball and life with former major-league catcher and long-time Princeton Baseball Head Coach Scott Bradley. Bradley had a nine-year career in the Majors with the Yankees, White Sox and Reds, but mostly with the Mariners, with whom he caught Randy Johnson's first career no-hit...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy got their Mets mojo going as Mike Puma joined the show, becoming the first guest to come back a second time in the history of the show. Mike is the long-time Mets beat writer for the New York Post. His book, "If These Walls Could Talk: New York Mets" is available right now: https://amzn.to/3f7xKtJ Mike was a classmate of Riz & Dawg at Ford...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy did Quick Hits for this episode. They kicked if off with an unboxing, courtesy of our friends at StratOMatic.com. The Rizzo brothers, Producer Xavier and Webmaster Dominic, handled the opening of the box and the description of its contents while Riz and Dawg followed along with excitement to see the cards and dice from the best baseball bo...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy welcomed former professional baseball player Missy Coombes in honor of International Women's Day and, of course, baseball! Missy (https://twitter.com/MissyCoombes) pitched for the Colorado Silver Bullets, an all-female professional baseball team, from 1994-96. A crafty lefty, Coombes knows the game inside and out. She recounted her amazing...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy did Quick Hits, covering the market for Jake Odorizzi, what it's like to see actual Spring Training games with fans, and what that means to us when we are battling through our COVID-ridden society. Dawg got things going with Veteran of the Day. It was Major Mike Kerns, a member of the US Army Special Forces Green Berets for 14 years. Major...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy covered all the topics making news off the field as all the great pictures of baseball are showing us that spring training is here. They covered Dominic Smith's interview of Barry Bonds, Taijuan Walker taking No. 99 in deference to Mr. Met, Scott Kazmir's comeback attempt, Riz's playoff run in the Strat-O-Matic Elite Media Experts League,...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy dropped Quick Hits as we move into the first weekend of Spring Training 2021. Todd Frazier signed a minor-league deal with the Pirates, Taijuan Walker inked a two-year contract with the Mets, and Brett Gardner re-signed a one-year deal with an option for 2022 with the Yankees while the guys were on the air (they nailed it). Quick Hits epis...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy stopped what they were doing and immediately did an emergency episode as Fernando Tatis Jr. signed a $340 million deal for 14 years to remain with the San Diego Padres. Where does this deal rate? The guys broke down the angles on what could make it the perfect deal and where it could go wrong. Plus took a look at things outside the box fro...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy welcomed former MLB infielder Jeff Frye to Diamond Diehards. Frye had a nine-year career on the field, and has been working ever since as a player agent. He's found himself these days outing self-proclaiming hitting gurus and their unusual drills, many of them costing parents and players a pretty penny for the quirky instruction. Frye cove...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy worked the baseball angles coming out of Super Bowl 55, in which Tom Brady claimed his seventh title, defeating Patrick Mahomes in the quarterback battle. There are a lot of baseball ties the guys uncovered, aside from the obvious about Mahomes' father being a former MLB pitcher. The segues were aplenty. Riz welcomed in the growing new aud...