Do you believe? (take that Thugs!)

Ok, after tonight's performance, I'm convinced the Dawgs have what it takes to take this whole thing.

They were down in the 9th to the number one team in the country. The team that had only lost 8 games all year. The team that was 45-0 after leading after 8 innings. The team that was supposed to destroy UGA.

And they DID. NOT. GIVE. UP! We showed the heart of a champion tonight, and now the world is taking notice.

That being said, Stanford scares me. 16-5 over FSU. A CWS record 11 runs in one inning. This is a team on a mission. And don't you think Stanford doesn't harbor any annimosity toward UGA. You better believe me they know about, and resent, the fact that the Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame is in Athens and not out on the West Coast, and that the championships are held in Athens all the time, despite their 5 million titles in the sport. The baseball team wants to help its tennis brethern get a little revenge by sending us home with our tails between our legs.

Now, with the whippings we've put on Georgia Tech, NC State, and Miami, I am convinced that our best shot at this is to draw as many ACC teams as possible from here on out. And we don't want to mess with Thug U again. That means we should be rooting for FSU to emerge from the losers' bracket and for North Carolina to take down their bracket. Don't really wanna see LSU again this season, either. So yeah, here's to a Georgia-North Carolina championship series.

dapolla, you have been with this UGA baseball team all year. Know that this really makes you happy, along with the rest of us. Heck of a game when 8 ends up on the long end of beating #1. Realize that this is not over, but . . . . . go Dawgs. . . . .

What a game!!! I wound up at a b-day party at the Jacksonville Suns game. Luckily we had a tv but had to wrangle with the golf crowd over the us open coverage. Finally got home to watch the ninth and the Miami debacle. Great game. Never prouder to be a DAWG!

Unbelieveable!!!! My son and I were screaming and high fiving when their idiot pitcher threw that ball away!!! We can beat anyone in the CWS as long as we show up for the game. What a confidence booster. GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No matter the sport, beating a Florida teams is so joyous.

Buc wrote:

dapolla, you have been with this UGA baseball team all year. Know that this really makes you happy, along with the rest of us. Heck of a game when 8 ends up on the long end of beating #1. Realize that this is not over, but . . . . . go Dawgs. . . . .

Between spending Father's Day with my dad and then with my kids and coming down off of the incredible high that was 7-4 Georgia over Miami, I didn't post yesterday. But good Lord you better believe I was there for every pitch!!!

Okay, so I actually got the time wrong and tuned in at 7:45 thinking the game was on at 8, so I tuned in 1-0 Miami in the 3rd inning. The second I turned on the television we scored to tie the game up and I knew things were gonna be all right. The biggest thing was keeping the game tight, and you've got to hand it to two people: 1) to Trevor Holder, for not falling apart after the two home runs, and for getting out of that two-walks-in-a-row jam he got into in the 5th or 6th, and 2) to Lyle Allen, who made some truly Joey Side-esque catches out in left to prevent three different 'Canes baserunners late.

I don't know about you, but I personally LOVED watching all of those shots of the Miami bench when they knew the game was over. We broke their backs, and I wouldn't be surprised if they lost to Florida State today. I think they've been afflicted by the ACC curse, as no ACC team has won the CWS since Wake Forest did it in 1955. The last time Miami won the whole thing was 2001, when they were still in the Big East.

And we've done well against the ACC this year:

3-2 season series against Georgia Tech
2-0 sweep of Clemson
1-1 split with FSU
1-0 against 52-9...oops! 52-10 Miami
2-1 against NC State

Not to mention that we had to take two out of two against Tech to make it out of our regional, or that we had to take two out of three against NC State to make it to the CWS. In pressure situations, in big games (remember the only regular season game we took against Tech was at Turner Field), give me the freaking ACC!!!!

But first, let's beat Stanford. We're used to beating teams named after colors (Roll over, Tide!), so let's take the Cardinal out!!!