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Diamond Diehards

A fun, informative and sometimes critical look at America"s pastime as Joe Rizzo, along with Jeff "The Dawg" Healy, bring you hardball and other things about sports and life. Watch & Join: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/DiamondDiehards Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondDiehards Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCks0aHZvERojxe8V5Oqp8jw Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiamondDiehards Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/diamonddiehards LinkedIn:

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Diamond Diehards: Riz Came Out One Year Ago, Dawg...

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2021/04/21

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

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Diamond Diehards: Katie Martineau, A Unique Baseball Mom

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2021/04/15

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 few

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Diamond Diehards: Lillian Martineau, The Kid Is a...

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2021/04/14

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 stellar

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Diamond Diehards: Joe Lemire of SportTechie.com Beats...

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2021/04/08

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 York Times,

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Diamond Diehards: Baseball in the Steel City with Rob...

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2021/04/08

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 the

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Diamond Diehards Turns One Year Old!

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2021/03/31

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 podcasters have

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Diamond Diehards: Former Major-League Catcher and...

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2021/03/24

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 went

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Diamond Diehards: Mike Puma, Mets Beat Writer for the...

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2021/03/19

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 day. The

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Quick Hits: The Aces Look Good, Ohtani's Bombs, An...

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2021/03/17

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 for the

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Diamond Diehards: Silver Bullet Missy Coombes Joins...

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2021/03/10

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-America

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Diamond Diehards Quick Hits: Spring Training Games...

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2021/03/03

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 mater,

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Diamond Diehards: Pretty Pictures on the Field,...

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2021/02/24

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 Mather

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Diamond Diehards Quick Hits: Todd Frazier,Taijuan...

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2021/02/19

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, they'll

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Diamond Diehards: Emergency Episode as Fernando Tatis...

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2021/02/18

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 star

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Diamond Diehards: Ex-MLB Infielder Jeff Frye, SheGone...

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2021/02/17

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 Hitting

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Diamond Diehards: Tom Brady Wins Another Super Bowl,...

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2021/02/09

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

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Diamond Diehards: The Big Fish Is About To Get Caught

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2021/02/05

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 where a

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Diamond Diehards: Old-School Strat-O-Matic Chatter,...

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2021/02/02

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 365 has made

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Diamond Diehards: Hammerin' Hank, Hall of Fame...

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2021/01/27

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, and Riz

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Diamond Diehards: MLK Day, Twitter Says Luis Castillo...

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2021/01/19

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 free

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