Hopefully you watched a masterpiece last night from Omaha.
It was so good, that fellow Georgia Baseball players changed their Instagram profiles to Joey’s picture.
His first pitch was 96 mph and his last pitch…96 mph. On 117 pitches. I’m thinking he had some adrenaline pumping through him, no?
Meanwhile, it’s nice to know we continue to make the Horns keep pointing down, and down, and down.
Go Dawgs!
This appearance can’t have been a good omen for this next version of the “everything school.” Kirby has official visit season going on and still found his way to support the Diamond Dawgs against Texas in Omaha.
Does the entire Texas athletic apparatus wake up in cold sweats when the red & black is on the other sideline?
Oh yeah, we’re the dominant women’s track & field program in the country now, too.
Well, this is interesting.
Before we lose our collective minds, the Twixxer here is making assumptions on who the pair of gamblers are, as the article doesn’t explicitly say Manning or Livingston was involved.
Buuuuut…Sark has been quite vocal about Texas Tech this offseason, and before all the gambling news took over, was calling into question Tech’s soft schedule, among other things.
It’s almost like it’s an integrity contest that neither school had any business starting, yet here we are.
Check the crowd pop on this one:
I would’ve paid good money to see this as COSM in Atlanta, provided they had this view of the game from the venue.
Go Dawgs…meanwhile, here’s the matchups for the CWS:
Yes, that’s right…All-SEC on one side of the bracket. Hmm. What would it look like with a reseeded bracket:
#1 Georgia vs. #8 Troy
#2 UNC vs. #7 Oklahoma
#3 Texas vs. #6 Ole Miss
#4 Alabama vs. # 7 West Virginia
Then it would just be an All-SEC CWS, would it not?
Just imagine…also imagine if the Supers were reseeded…some different outcomes could’ve occurred:
1 Georgia vs. 16 Little Rock
2 Auburn vs. 15 Cal Poly
3 UNC vs 14 Troy
4 Texas vs. 13 St. John’s
5 Alabama vs. 12 Oklahoma
6 Oregon vs. 11 USC
7 Mississippi State vs. 10 Ole Miss
8 Kansas vs. 9 West Virginia
Well…guess what…you still would’ve only had five SEC teams in the CWS brackets…and Auburn would’ve been one of them…plus you would’ve had a B1G team in it, too.
Nah, maybe I like it just the way it is.
Do you suppose Texas Tech fans have a shred of concern about the future of the sport?
I’d say “nah”.
Apparently, the Court of Appeals that would handle the next leg of this is chaired by Red Raiders:
Meanwhile, Texass fans are not pleased with their little brothers to the west…
*Checks notes* – Lambos and fat stacks of cash. Got it. While I am on Texas’s side here, I’d say the pot is calling the kettle unethical, just one is more “legally” ethical now that we’re in the era of NIL.
And, of course, it wouldn’t be a day ending in y if we didn’t have someone from our traditional SEC orange fan base whining about why they couldn’t get away with it, too.
“Why don’t we have a corrupt judge?” Boo hoo. Talk to a Georgia fan about the local legal system working against you, then wonder how we managed two National Championships while getting pulled over every other day of the week, and let’s resume the conversation after.
Shot:
Chaser:
Look, Sark has some reason to be bitter towards Ole Miss, particularly Pete Golding, his former counterpart during their times together with Saban’s Alabama.
According to Wickersham, as Manning’s recruitment came down to the wire, Pete Golding, then Alabama’s defensive coordinator (who now holds the same job at Ole Miss), invoked Sarkisian’s struggles with alcoholism in an attempt to sway him away from the Longhorns while on a call with Manning and his circle of trust. Wickersham explained the moment while speaking with Pablo Torre.
“Pete, who is friends with Sark, says on this call, ‘I love Sark, he’s my best friend.’ And then he’s like oh my god, do I go there? And he did. He goes, ‘I hope he can stay sober,’” Wickersham explained.
After the call, Manning’s high school coach Nelson Stewart called Golding directly, saying “Pete, that’s f—ed up!”
Unlike the former OC he took over for, Sark made his recovery and didn’t turn it into a narcissistic showcasing of his new namaste philosophies on life. Just went back to work and got right. Good for him.
And I ask…what’s the matter with basket weaving?
Especially the underwater course? I declare!
Josh Pate serves up a softball to Sarkisian. I understand Pate wants access over being a real interviewer, but the follow-up questions that could come from this were many (yes, he has done that with Kirby as well).
Listening to Sark talk about culture of team first while he parks Lamborghinis in front of the football facility for high school recruiting visits makes me laugh.
Refugees, discuss.
Man, Texas has to be proud.
In all seriousness, congrats to the Softball Dawgs for not only the win, but doing it in front of so many viewers.
Go Dawgs!
How many iterations of this are we going to see each and every year until the end of eternity as long as Texass has the deep pockets and heaviest bankroll in the SEC?
Respect? They enter the conference in 2024 and declare that they will run the conference, then losing to Georgia not once, but twice. In 2025, they couldn’t get out of their own way at times and Archduke oscillated between horrible and great, at times. Again, they visited Georgia, predicted to shock the world, just to get Kirb Stomped in Sanford and limp into the Cheez-Its bowl.
To their credit, at least they went an played the bowl game, and won it, beating a B1G team in the process.
But I believe it was off-season last year where some sports pundit asked the question: is Texas the new Alabama?
The answer is no. Alabama isn’t even Alabama. Funny how NIL can’t buy you everything, amirite?
The national talking heads are so desperate to be right about the Archduke. On another topic, Josh Pate haz a sad about where John Mateer is on the list.
If Manning’s stats from prior year were shown without his name compared to the others at the top of the list especially against opponents with a pulse, would he be anywhere close to the top?
Refugees, assemble and discuss.