Diamond Dawgs

The Georgia Baseball team, which was one win away from a NC last season, is off to its best start in nearly a century, defeating Wofford tonight 13-6 to move to a perfect 9-0. This includes an on-the-road sweep of Arizona, whose head coach, Andy Lopez, said that this year's Dawgs have one of the best offenses he's ever seen. That should mean a lot coming from Lopez, who has taken three different teams to Omaha, eventually winning a title at Pepperdine. He's right, too, as Georgia's closest margin of victory so far is 5 runs. While last season's success was a surprise, this year is loaded with expectations, with UGA ranked in the top-15 and picked almost unanimously to win the SEC and play deep into the series. It certainly would be nice to see us back in Omaha and maybe even when the whole thing this time. This team, especially the bats, is exciting and, individually, Jonathon Taylor is getting some Golden Spikes talk early. Combine all that with a tad easier schedule than '08 and things look good for Georgia. After such a dismal mens' b-ball season, it's nice to have a successful team to pull for in Athens again. On a more personal note, I hope to make it to a few games this spring. I've been saying I was going for a few years now, but haven't actually made it since I graduated. Maybe this week during spring break...