Diamond Diehards

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy jumped on as Trevor Bauer, the biggest fish in the free agency pool, narrowed down his decision to two teams, believed to be Dawg's Mets and the World Series champion Dodgers. They went late-night on the East Coast in hopes that the news would break while they were streaming live on the Facebook Group. The guys broke down what the Twitter...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy, finally inside after clearing snow for hours upon end, turned on the Hot Stove with some old-school Strat-O-Matic chatter. The guys have been entered into the Strat-O-Matic Elite Media Experts League, with Riz repping the Cardinals and Dawg piloting the Mets. Follow it here: https://t.co/Y1zQOp6R9k. Riz & Dawg battled it out in Strat many...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy remembered Hammerin' Hank Aaron after his recent death. This show was on the night where the Hall of Fame announced its class of 2021, which included zero players and the noted absence of Curt Schilling. The guys reviewed Schilling's case and reviewed why it was adjudicated the way it has been for the past nine years where he's failed to g...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy did a Martin Luther King Day episode. They reflected on the importance of the day before a transition into some Hot Stove happenings, including how Twitter apparently decided that Luis Castillo was being traded from the Reds to the Yankees. Was it debunked? The guys discussed how it could happen and why the rumors came about. They covered...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy did an emergency episode as Francisco Lindor was traded from the Cleveland Indians (for now) to the New York Mets. The guys broke down the trade, and reviewed the new potential lineups and pitching staffs of the Mets and Indians. There was Yankees talk, with a unveiling of a possible deficiency in The Bronx that may have cost the Bombers i...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy rang in 2021 with their first show of the new year, talked about the end of 2020, and surveyed the slow landscape of the Hot Stove, where there has not been much action. Will the season start on time, and will the games be played? The guys used other sports as an example, plus broke down the financial aspect to determine the answer. This s...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy talked San Diego Padres baseball, as the Friars seemingly grabbed every starting pitcher in site over the days after Christmas. This was a special episode, as it did not air on the live stream, and will be available only for download for a few days, because we post the videos. If you have not subscribed to us, please do! The Padres might w...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball, for the 50th time! Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy welcomed back Jerry Milani, an expert on Hawaii 5-0 AND baseball, for the landmark episode. Jerry has been working with Strat-O-Matic, and helped the guys go over all their defensive ratings, which just came out. The trio applied some of the Strat knowledge to real-life decisions being made across Major League front offi...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy rang in the official arrival of winter with some old-fashioned baseball hot stove debate, with George Springer the first topic. Is Springer down to the Mets and Blue Jays? Riz had a very decisive opinion about that one. Dawg reiterated his desire to have Springer join the Mets, and then it was on to Trevor Bauer, who Riz thinks should be t...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy watched the first domino in the offseason fall, and it was a big one. James McCann hit on two categories, as he is a catcher and now a Met. Riz & Dawg calculated the next moves for the Mets and what their signing of McCann means for the rest of the league when it comes to the vital position behind the plate. Where will JT Realmuto land? Sh...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy check out what is going on with MLB's Virtual Winter Meetings, including moves that have been made and ones that might be upcoming and how that could affect the market. As usual, they are awaiting for the big first move from the Mets, but they also examined the Angels' moves, their status since signing Albert Pujols, and what the COVID vac...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy streamed live on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter/Periscope and Twitch, and they also bring you the audio podcast right here. Don't forget to subscribe and give us five stars and a good review if you can! Visit our sponsor FMS Graphics at www. FMSGraphics.com for quick and easy holiday cards and your printing and promotional needs any time of the...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy broke some more new ground, streaming the show Monday Night Baseball Live Hot Stove show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/Periscope and Twitch, this time WITH the Dawg being heard on all of them! Once again, Dawg's Mets dominated the early part of the conversation as the guys broke down the front-office moves and strategized how Theo Epstein wi...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy broke some ground, streaming the show Tuesday Night Live show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/Periscope and Twitch. It was an exciting next step in the Diamond Diehards journey. The guys discussed how the free agency market will get cooking when the Mets make a move, contemplated Theo Epstein's next step, and broke down the historic hiring of...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards). On Veterans Day, our own Army Dawg gave his thoughts about what the day means to him and others who have served their country. Dawg spoke at length about it in one of the can't miss moments in Diamond Diehards history. To kick it off, the guys dove right into th...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards). Justin Turner was diagnosed positive with COVID-19 during the series-ending sixth game of the World Series on Oct. 28. He was forced to leave the game and instructed to quarantine, which he did until the Dodgers clinched the trophy. He missed the initial celebra...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards). The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions, and the guys were on live for the final few innings all the way through the post-game. Riz & Dawg appeared to have rallied the Dodgers, who trailed 1-0 until the guys started the Facebook Live session that prom...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards). They went live during the NLCS Game Seven between the Dodgers and Braves, jumping on during the Seventh Inning Stretch and stayed all the way through until the end, when the Dodgers completed their dramatic 4-3 victory. In the meantime, the guys talked about how...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards). They went live during ALCS & NLCS games. They observed how the Rays are changing the game with players like Randy Arozarena, and tried to determine who might be the best position player on Tampa Bay. Riz made a bold prediction about Game 4 of the NLCS, and the g...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards). They went live during the decisive fifth game of the ALDS between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays, hours after the announcement of the death of Whitey Ford. Riz put it all on the line and watched the Yankees get eliminated, giving The Dawg some solace af...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards). They recapped their selections from the epic first round of the playoffs that was just completed, and remembered late Cardinals legend Bob Gibson. Riz & Dawg reviewed each of the eight series from the first round, then they dove into the forthcoming ALDS and NLD...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards) and broke down how the Milwaukee Brewers somehow reached the MLB playoffs despite never spending a day over .500 during the 60-game season. In an absolutely insane week in sports, Riz & Dawg streamed during Game Six of the Stanley Cup Finals, which the Tampa Bay...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards) and broke down the new TV deal between MLB and Turner Sports. Dawg showed off his copious note-taking talents and reviewed the best parts of MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's interview with Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo, with Riz jumping in to expound on some of the m...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards), as the scramble for the final four spots in the National League playoffs was going full-force. The standings were changing during the show, and Riz & Dawg laid out where things stood plus figured out how the mad scramble over the weekend might turn out. It was n...

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball. Riz and Jeff "Dawg" Healy did the show on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards), just after news broke that the MLB playoffs will be played in bubbles after the initial round at teams' regular stadiums. The AL will play in California cities Los Angeles and San Diego, while the NL will be Texas-style in Houston and Arlington, where the World...