New York Post: Piazza Not Gay, Getting Married to Prove It

Not only is Mike Piazza not gay but, as the Post reports, he’s getting married, which should settle all that nonsense, so to speak:

Mike Piazza is getting hitched.

The Mets catcher is walking down the aisle with his longtime girl friend, “Baywatch” babe and former Playmate Alicia Rickter, in Miami during the last weekend in January, sources said yesterday.

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The marriage should finally put an end to those unfounded rumors that Piazza is a switch hitter. During the 2002 season, the perennial All-Star called an unprecedented news conference to explicitly state he is not gay.

“The truth is that I’m heterosexual and date women,” he said.

[Another Playmate, Darlene] Bernaola, the former Playmate of the Millennium [one of a “bevy of babes” Piazza was “known to have homered with”], knew it all along.

“Our sex life was very, very healthy,” she said at the time.

More about the bride:

The beautiful brunette was a Killian’s beer spokesmodel at the time [the two met], while Piazza was often seen around town with beautiful women.

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The two are self-described homebodies — and metalheads, who love hard rock — although Piazza sometimes hits the clubs as hard as he hits baseballs.

He used to be a regular at 14th Street hotspot Lotus until Mets players started boycotting it after one of the team’s second-stringers was refused entrance.

Best wishes to Piazza!