Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
The Diamond Dawgs had a somewhat close Friday night, followed by two consecutive run-rule games on Saturday and Sunday. And, they’re on the verge of making history.
According to the Georgia baseball media guide, the Bulldogs need three more SEC wins to tie the single-season program record and four more to break it.
The 2019 team holds the record with 21 wins in conference play.
Caden Aoki was solid again as a day 3 starter and the bats were very, very live this past weekend, too.
They even had a little fun after the game was over, adorning Phelps with candy, hats, and other accessories as he gave a post-game interview with the SEC Network crew.
If you have an hour to take a look, it’s worth your time to learn a little about Matt and Jon Stinchcomb. I’m honored the interviewer is my son-in-law who is getting a master’s degree from UGA in a week from the New Media Institute through the Grady School. He’s the sports information coordinator at Greater Atlanta Christian.
Needless to say, I’m proud of and for Chris. He’s a Seminole who loves the Dawgs.
Florida joined the sec in 1932. They won their 1st football conference title in 1991. Almost 60 years. They won their last conf title in football in 2008. They were good for 17 years out of the last 95. Congrats.
In all the recent fracas about the future voice of the Georgia Bulldogs, here’s a fun Thursday Throwback to a joyous time of beating the Gators when we didn’t expect to, complete with Larry Munson.
Like I said last year, I’d pay good money to caddie or just be a fly on the wall to hea the conversations that come out of this group.
Thank you to the 26 current and former college football head coaches who came out to the Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge.
Due to inclement weather, today’s tournament was cut short. As a result, the charity purse will be distributed evenly, with each coach receiving… pic.twitter.com/EgCQobx1yR
Georgia has gone on the road to Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Arkansas and Ole Miss. Four of the toughest places to play in the country. They are 9-3, winning all four series. All four teams were, and still are, ranked inside the top 25. That is IMPRESSIVE!
No. 5 @BaseballUGA opens final 7-game homestand of regular season with 11-1 (7) run-rule win over Troy. IMO Bulldogs catcher @Djackson2100 is top candidate for @USAGoldenSpikes. 2 homer, 5 RBI day gives him 23 HR for the season and 64 RBI. Leads @SEC in both. Has caught 39 of… pic.twitter.com/dlKATbsSZh
That’s no easy feat. On top of that, Georgia might have one of the best baseball players in the country in Dan Jackson. If Aoki is the answer for a Day 3 starter, we could be hosting a Regional and possibly beyond.
Congrats to Coach Johnson for getting the team competitive again, even in the eyes of those most critical of Dawg fans’ eyes.
If you need to break a 40-plus year National Championship curse, you go out and recruit as much talent as you possibly can.
5 top-15 draft picks, 10 first-round draft picks. Overall, 24 of the 45 were selected in the first three rounds.
Just imagine if NIL and the Portal didn’t blow up around the same time, and some of the transfers never found new homes. Kirby was building a dynasty in the Alabama-Saban blueprint, until the aforementioned blew that blueprint to shreds.
At least we can say Kirby isn’t picking up his ball and going home. Maybe he’ll write the new blueprint, with a little tweaking, and we’ll be back up there again. Until that day…
Were they all top-flight and lead successful, lucrative NFL careers…not all, but for all the talk about Georgia not being a good landing spot for receivers, it seems some of the numbers don’t lie.
I think we have a few more coming down the pipe, to be honest.
What a weekend for the Diamond Dawgs in Oxford. To start, the Friday night tilt got shifted to Saturday due to weather. What resulted was a 1 pm start the next day (noon in Mississippi time), where the Dawgs jumped out to an 8-0 lead and cruised a while…until Mississippi accounted for 10 unanswered runs, three of which came off three homeruns surrendered by Georgia’s otherwise solid bullpen arm, Caden Aoki.
Ole Miss would go on to win Game 1, 10-8. Buckle up, because game 2 of the doubleheader started late that afternoon. What ensued was a 14-inning, six hours and 13 minutes, the second longest game in program history. In all, it was over twelve ours of baseball in one day, and what felt like a triple-header when all was said and done.
Enter Game 3, and with all the arms tired and a likely exhausted team. With Wes Johnson electing to sit Vigue for another week, the Dawgs turned to Caden Aoki to get the start in what should’ve been a noodle-armed bullpen game. Instead, Georgia may have gotten an answer to a season-long question:
Caden Aoki gave Georgia their best Sunday start in SEC play by a lot. 🔥
Aoki dealt it for six innings and 7 Ks with 1 ER, and Georgia won the series with a 5-1 victory and earing their first series victory in Oxford in 15 years.
If, and it’s a big IF, the Diamond Dawgs can get the pitching woes down, we may be able to make some noise in the post-season.
