How Good are the Diamond Dawgs?

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Aside from the Derby and some playoff NBA/NHL (if you’re in to that kind of a thing) there wasn’t much going on this weekend. The Diamond Dawgs swept Mizzou (who is winless in the SEC by the way) in a not-so-spectacular manner, but the Everything School dropped a series against Auburn in a way that only Tennessee can. Between a called game because of Tennessee’s fatal key points, also known as rain, and constant bitching about the umpire’s strike zone, Tennessee dropped a series against Auburn. Predictably, Tony Vitello threw a hissy fit.

Anyway, Auburn’s media team posted this in the aftermath:

Don’t see that oval G on there because Georgia won their series against the Bore Eagles earlier this year. From what I can tell, Georgia has to win three more games – with a series against the Tide coming this weekend – to secure a national seed.

So how do you see this season ending up for the Diamond Dawgs? If you follow the team closely, you know we have been Jekyll and Hyde this season and teams are realizing we struggle mightily with the southpaws. Are we Omaha bound…or bound for disappointment?

17 thoughts on “How Good are the Diamond Dawgs?”

  1. “Feed the Trees” Dawgs need 4 out of the next six games and a decent showing in the sec tournament to secure Foley Field advantage moving forward in the early regional process, going to the championship series is a toss up, but a real deal chance…GO DAWGS!!

  2. I feel like the Diamond Dawgs need to most likely win the final two series at Bama and against TAMU to secure a Top 8 seed which is crucial to reaching Omaha for Georgia. The bats have cooled off from the first half of the season while the pitching has improved slightly. The team seems to hit much better at home so a Top 8 seed seems necessary to have a good chance to reach Omaha. The current (likely changing )projections have GT, Stetson, and Yale in the Athens Regional which would create some interesting matchups. Tech is obvious, Yale and UGA have a historical connection, and the Friday night starter for Stetson is James Hays who played at my sons’ school in Perry and was on Georgia’s roster as a freshman last season.

  3. I’m pessimistic about the long-term outcome of the season. I just don’t see how we get out of a super regional with our pitching and maddening inconsistency at the plate. If we run into a hot team in a regional, we may be on the outside of the supers.

    Wes Johnson is continuing to build a monster in Athens. Let’s make sure he knows we’re behind him and not lose him to someone because of the Georgia Way.

    • In order to build a monster we need to build more seating. First, to create the environment that helps us win more and excites recruits, second to expand the more hardcore part of the fan base that will bring additional money into the program and fund/motivate additional NIL incentives.

      • Where do we build the seating without moving the entire facility? Not trying to troll you, I’m genuinely curious. Kudzu Hill is part of Georgia sports (not just baseball). I personally wouldn’t want to do anything that changes that. The parking garage in left field can’t be moved.

        I guess you could expand seating down the lines or go up.

        • The parking garage in left is about 200 yards past the wall. That wouldn’t be an issue.

          The easiest, lowest-impact change would be to expand down the RF line and integrate Kudzu (with no kudzu any more) Hill into the stadium. Now that they’re charging to sit out there, it’s silly that it’s isolated from everything else. That way you could use the concessions and also use the standing areas on the 3B side. But that probably only nets you about 1,000 seats at most. Could be a good first phase, though.

          Next place to go is left field in the outfield. You would eat up about 100 parking spaces in that surface lot but that’s not a huge deal. The cheapest option is to put about 10 rows of bleachers out there with enough space to send them higher. The Cadillac option would be to build something like what they have in left at Dudy Noble. License some boxes out there and turn it into a party and a high-demand commodity that requires a PSL and a significant donation every year. Take it all the way around to the batter’s eye.

          • Like the Georgia Way is going to give up one penny of Parking Revenue to make a sports team better. Besides, the Faculty Senate would claim expanding seating is racist, sexist and/or transphobic…

          • A parking pass for a year in that lot is $240. That’s $24,000. The AA would make that in one weekend of SEC play.

  5. 5th best in conference
    Clem/FSU will be problematic
    Win regional
    Lose Super

  6. There’s appears to be a lot of “travel ball coach” in the prick from 10RC.

      • It’s double elimination but I don’t see them winning a game on the road against elite pitching. I think as a 5 seed they’ll host and win their Super Regional, though.

  8. Too inconsistent to win it all, barring a major wake-up of all the hitters. They can hit HR’s but they just don’t make enough contact to score consistently. They swept Mizzou this week, but there were signs that don’t bode well. I’m a stats nerd, especially with baseball, and Mizzou’s pitching staff ranked 288th nationally in ERA at 9.89. For those keeping score, that’s 155 spots lower than the SEC’s 15th ranked squad, SC. This was the weekend for the bats to get well but instead our batting avg dropped to 102nd. That’s down 91 spots from the day before the TX series. This weekend was the fewest runs the Tigers have given up in an SEC series this season. It’s literally been a free fall with no end in sight. 4-5 weeks ago I felt we were likely to be in the CWS. Now, again unless the light clicks on, getting out of the regional would be a major accomplishment. But you never know. We lost in the Series final to a Fresno St team that was the 4-seed in their regional. Go Dawgs!

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