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 McCann, Brett Gardner, Noah Syndergaard, Francisco Lindor, and some old timers! We worked Dave K...
May 26, 2021
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 many debates on this subject over the years, outside of the Diamond Diehards airwaves. The guys hi...
May 14, 2021
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 examination of some of the Mets' pitchers injuries over the years. The Mets had previously fired hit...
May 04, 2021
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 ideas to revamp the outlook, and you're going to want to hear the proposals. Outlandish? The moves m...
Apr 28, 2021
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 Riz through talking about what he was experiencing. That April 15, 2020 episode remains the most-down...
Apr 21, 2021
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 trying to make it in baseball as a teenager. Katie recounted the emotional and difficult day a fe...
Apr 15, 2021
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 often shares her classic left-handed swing on social media. This amazing young lady is also a stel...
Apr 14, 2021
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) also talked hardball with Riz & Dawg about being a contributor to MLB Network and the New ...
Apr 08, 2021
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 in PNC Bank Park history for the 20th anniversary of one of MLB's most beautiful stadiums. Could...
Apr 08, 2021
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 another for over 30 years (that means they've been friends for longer than most other podcaster...
Mar 31, 2021
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-hitter. Bradley recounted what it was like receiving for the Big Unit, but it did not stop there. He we...
Mar 24, 2021
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 Fordham University, and the trio spent time on the air together at the great WFUV back in the da...
Mar 19, 2021
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 board game ever. Check out the video on our YouTube or Facebook! The discussion moved to the aces ...
Mar 17, 2021
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 story, starting with a zinger for Riz and covering her time with the Silver Bullets, her All-Am...
Mar 10, 2021
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 Kerns has an MBA from UConn, a BA from Holy Cross, where he pitched, and hails from Riz's alma ...
Mar 03, 2021
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, and the situations surrounding Yankees pitcher Domingo German and former Mariners CEO Kevin Math...
Feb 24, 2021
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 episodes are shorter than usual, so if you're looking for Veteran of the Day and/or Diehard Dads, th...
Feb 19, 2021
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 from a financial perspective. It was a great day for baseball, as the league's biggest emerging sta...
Feb 18, 2021
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 covered his careers on and off the field, and revealed the genesis of becoming the actual Certified ...
Feb 17, 2021
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 audience with a reset of who he and Dawg are and how they got here, and then it was on to the Strat...
Feb 09, 2021
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 stream was saying about Bob Nightengale as things were happening, and Riz gave the scenario wher...
Feb 05, 2021
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 times during the Fordham days, and while this might be a little different, Strat-O-Matic 36...
Feb 02, 2021
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 get in. There was the matter of current personnel, as JT Realmuto re-signed with the Phillies, an...
Jan 27, 2021
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 what DJ LeMahieu's 6-year, $90 million deal with the Yankees means to him and to all the other f...
Jan 19, 2021
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 in playoff series the past few seasons, and a big reason the Yankees and Mets would make great tr...
Jan 07, 2021
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 show had a unique start, as Dawg presented Veteran of the Day and it became the entire first segm...
Jan 05, 2021
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 want to check out our sponsor, FMS Graphics (https://www.fmsgraphics.com) for all their print and...
Dec 30, 2020
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 offices right now. Who got robbed and who got hooked up? Listen for your favorite teams and favorite...
Dec 23, 2020
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 the apple of the Mets' eye. Could Bauer end up in Anaheim? The guys covered the Angels' recent fr...
Dec 22, 2020
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? Should the Mets prioritize Trevor Bauer or George Springer next? Riz had a very strong opinion...
Dec 16, 2020
