Diamond Diehards

Joe Rizzo brings you baseball (for the first time in 2022)! Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy made no bones about this one. Since this is a podcast about baseball and about life, went more of the life route on this one, with an episode-by-episode review of Cobra Kai Season 4. Where there were chances to mix in baseball, they did it.

Dawg kicked it off with a very special and apropos Veteran of the Day, and then it was off to the races on Cobra Kai. Later on, they hit Fanatics' acquisition of Topps, Buck Showalter to Mets, and Mark Kotsay to A’s. They finished with a look at the new world of COVID with Omicron, tried to answer if the Mets and Yankees (and possibly other teams) might have Kyrie Irving-like decision in 2022, and integrated Diehard Dads along the way.

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Joe Rizzo brings you (Strat-O-Matic) baseball! In this specialty episode, Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy welcome back Jerry Milani for the Second Annual Strat-O-Matic Ratings Bonanza.

Strat-O-Matic (www.strat-o-matic.com) is a baseball simulation game that played a large part in the birthing of Diamond Diehards. If you're a StratHead, you already understand this episode. If not, then we give an explanation in the beginning of the show so you're not completely lost. We reviewed the fielding ratings, which were released before Christmas.

Jerry added some extra insight from behind the curtain, so for the StratHeads, it is not just the ratings, but also some insider juice!

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Joe Rizzo brings you baseball ... for the 100th time! It's the historic 100th episode of the top podcast about baseball and about life, as Riz & "The Dawg" Jeff Healy bring the show to you.

Rundown:

~Veteran of the Day

~History of the show: How we got to #100

~Mets manager search down to Buck Showalter, Joe Espada, Matt Quatraro

~Clint Hurdle named Rockies Assistant GM - what he brings back to Colorado

~Standing alongside Jeff Frye & #SheGone Nation on baseball fundamentals

~Mike Shildt joins Commissioner’s Office in On-Field Operations

~Roland Hemond dead at 92 (three-time Executive of the Year)

~Reliving one of the greatest moments in Fordham Baseball history

~Diehard Dads

This one streamed live on the Facebook group. As with all the shows, it's also available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify (links are below).

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The lockout lingers in Major League Baseball, but that does not stop the Mets from pursuing their new manager. Joe Rizzo & Jeff Healy bring you the latest on the search, the labor stoppage, and help welcome the six new members into the Hall of Fame. Riz & Dawg also dove deeper into the topics and interacted with the crowd on Facebook Live.

The Rundown:

~Veteran of the Day (Honoring Pearl Harbor)

~Lockout Issues:

-Salary Floor/Cap

-Free Agency Age vs. Service Time

-Revenue Sharing

-MLB.com Clears All Current Player Images, News

~Hall of Fame:

-Buck O’Neil, Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Minoso, Tony Oliva, Bud Fowler

-Kaat & Oliva are the only living members

~Mets Manager:

-Buck Showalter or someone else?

-Plusses and minuses of revisiting Carlos Beltran

~Diehard Dads

This one streamed live on the Facebook group. As with all the shows, it's also available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify (links are below).

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The Texas Rangers (!) shock the world by signing the dynamic middle infield duo of Corey Seager and Marcus Semien (with a nod to pitcher Jon Gray), Max Scherzer stuns the rest of the universe by choosing the East Coast and the New York Mets, and Steven Matz's agent kicks off a crazy free-agent frenzy! Riz (Joe Rizzo) & The Dawg (Jeff Healy) deliver the goods.

The Rundown:

~Veteran of the Day

~Steven Matz shuns Mets for Cardinals, kicks off bedlam

~Seager & Semien do the Texas Two-Step, Rangers add Gray

~Scherzer bolts to Queens, joining Marte, Canha, Escobar

~Are the Yankees alive?

~What comes of the rest of the shortstops: Story, Correa, Baez, Simmons

~Robbie Ray, Adam Frazier to Seattle

~Kevin Gausman, Yimi Garcia to Toronto

~Marlins acquire Pirates catcher Jacob Stallings, sign Avail Garcia

~Diehard Dads

This one streamed live on the Facebook group. As with all the shows, it's also available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify (links are below).

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Baseball pioneer Missy Coombes talked Dodgers Hot Stove and the MLB BreakThrough Series with Joe Rizzo & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy ahead of Thanksgiving. Missy played professional baseball in the mid-1990s for the all-female Colorado Silver Bullets and saw the future of women in baseball when she went to Texas to see Lillian Martineau, Olivia Pichardo and many others play in the MLB BreakThrough Series. She shared her thoughts and sentiments on all of it, in addition to reflecting on meeting Lilli, as well as Jeff Frye (#SheGone).

The Rundown:

-Veteran of the Day

-Dodgers Hot Stove In-Depth Breakdown - Corey Seager, Max Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen, Chris Taylor, Albert Pujols, Andrew Heaney

-Break-Through Series

-Meeting Lilli Martineau, Jeff Frye, and watching the girls play baseball

-Analytics in the game and how their overuse are causing stunting in player development from youth on up

This one streamed live on the Facebook group. As with all the shows, it's also available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify (links are below).

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Wednesday is Thor'sDay, as Noah Syndergaard leaves the Mets for the Angels on a lucrative one-year contract. Joe Rizzo & Jeff "The Dawg" Healy broke down the reasons for Thor's surprising departure, and a lot more.

-Veteran of the Day

-World Series thoughts

-Lay of the Land with Labor

-Early free agent signings a surprise

-In depth analysis on Thor to Angels

-Ray Montgomery/Mets front office/Billy Eppler

-Diehard Dads

Dawg kicked it off with Veteran of the Day. It was SFC Matthew Odell, Battalion Supply Sergeant, 169th Aviation Regiment. SFC Odell deployed to Kuwait and Kosovo, and was awarded Honorable Order of a Saint Martin for supply excellence.

Riz closed it with an emotional and unusual Diehard Dads segment, and the link to the video about which he was talking can be found here: NJ Rockets vs. Princeton Tiger Lilies - https://youtu.be/vAvPcl-W0GY

This one streamed live on the Facebook group, so Uncle Paul was there in the comments. As with all the shows, it's also available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify (links are below).

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THE WORLD SERIES TROPHY IS POLISHED AND READY TO GO! Riz & Dawg bring you Monday Night Live as the Atlanta Braves travel back to visit the Houston Astros as the 2021 World Series nears its close. The Braves grabbed three of the first four games and jumped to a 4-0 lead in Game Five, but the resilient Astros rebounded to win the game and bring the series back to Texas, where it will finish. Should the Astros take it, the guys talked about the turning point - that one moment where things turned around (hint: it was a tweet by Riz).

Quantitative analysis has been a critical part of front office thinking and has penetrated into managers offices around MLB. Dawg explained where the prevailing philosophies of the day can fall short, and shed light on why old-school managers like Dusty Baker and Brian Snitker have found themselves on the brink of a title while others have fallen short.

Have we seen the last of pitchers being required to be in the batting lineup in the NL? Now that the Braves' home games are over, the potential of the universal DH being implemented in the off-season looms. Is it the certainty that most pundits have made it? The guys explained why it's not. And the answer may surprise you.

There was also a Diehard Dads segment, which included a shoutout to Producer Xavier, who you can follow here: https://www.instagram.com/techandcars/.

Dawg kicked it off with Veteran of the Day. It was SFC Otis Fulton, an Engineer and infantrymen with Connecticut Army National Guard. Fulton served 20 years deployed to Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

This one streamed live on the Facebook group, so Uncle Paul was there in the comments. As with all the shows, it's also available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify (links are below).

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WE HAVE A WORLD SERIES! Riz & Dawg bring you Monday Night Live as the Atlanta Braves got ready to meet the Houston Astros in the 2021 World Series. How did these teams end up here despite having two of the oldest managers in MLB? The guys broke it down. They also were their own harshest critics of their pre-playoff MLB bracket picks, which did not go well!

We have seen some of the old-school thinking in baseball lead the Astros and Braves to the precipice of the championship. Riz & Dawg explained how some of the theories that spurned SABRmetrics and Moneyball morphed into the analytics overload happening today, and where that premise might have taken a left turn. Do the names of Hall of Famers Kirby Puckett and Frank Thomas excite you? They're the examples in a discussion you do not want to miss.

There was also a Diehard Dads segment carried by Riz this time, and a dedication of the show to Debbie Rizzo ahead of her birthday. Join us in wishing Deb a happy birthday!

Dawg kicked it off with Veteran of the Day. It was USMC Sergeant Matt Butler, a combat correspondent and social media pioneer who served 24 years in the Corps and now heads Fordham’s Military and Veterans Affairs office. Go Rams!

This one streamed live on the Facebook group, so Uncle Paul was there in the comments. As with all the shows, it's also available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify (links are below).

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Riz & Dawg bring you Monday Night Live during the third game of the ALCS, as the Red Sox once again battered the Astros, and it was on the day off between the second and third games of the NLCS between the Braves and the Dodgers. The guys talked about all the moves happening on the fields, including Houston being left for dead already, even before they got down two games to one. And for the NLCS, how the Braves have a different look this time around against the defending World Series champion Dodgers, who dropped the first two games to Atlanta in the 2020 NLCS and were down 3-1 before rattling off three straight wins to steal the series.

There is news off the field, and the second NL Wild Card team the St. Louis Cardinals, parted ways with manager Mike Shildt, who was the 2019 NL Manager of the Year, and led the Redbirds to a franchise-record 17-game winning streak in September that bolstered them to an unlikely wild card appearance, in which they lost in the bottom of the ninth inning. Riz & Dawg took a look at the managers of the teams that own the longest winning streaks in baseball history as a bellwether of where Shildt might stand. Spoiler Alert: It should work out well for Shildt in his next stop.

Dawg kicked it off with Veteran of the Day. It was a stirring tribute to Gen. Colin Powell, the former US Secretary of State, who passed away at 84 earlier in the day.

This one streamed live on the Facebook group, so there was some lively interaction in the comments. As with all the shows, it's also available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify (links are below).

There are a lot of podcasts out there, and many of them are great. What is special about us? THIS. This is what we bring to the table. It's a podcast about baseball and about life. So follow, subscribe, get the alerts, and join us on the journey!

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Big Ed's Car Wash http://www.bigedscarwash.com/ is the place to go if you're in Bergen County, NJ. Get over to Fair Lawn and get your car cleaned and your oil changed. Tell Big Ed that Diamond Diehards sent you!

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