Women's College World Series Open Comment Thread (Game Four and Game Five, if Necessary): Georgia Bulldogs v. UCLA Bruins
Up and at 'em, Bulldog Nation; it's time to overcome the euphoria of eliminating the hated Gators and focus on the UCLA Bruins, whom the Red and Black will have to beat twice today---once at 1:00, then again at 7:00---in order to advance to the Women's College World Series finals.
As I noted in last night's open comment thread, I'll be out of pocket for much of the day helping family members move, so I won't be around for the first outing of what I hope will turn into a Sunday doubleheader. I trust, though, that the Georgia faithful will have no trouble cheering on the Bulldogs in my absence.
Follow the game(s) on the ESPN family of networks and join in the discussion in the comments below as the Athenians continue to fight in Oklahoma City.
Go 'Dawgs!
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Our #6 Dawgs need to win against #6 UCLA in this first game in order to have the
opportunity to play them again later today!
Go Girl’s Go!
We can do this!
thank you random person in yellow shirt for rpeserving this AB
Once a Dawg, Always a Dawg. How Sweet it is!
If...
You’re a glass half full person, you might point out that we’ve won all our games against higher seeds.
If you’re a glass half empty individual, you might point out that our new calling card is the wild pitch.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 1:11 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Struck her out looking
Nice job Arevalo
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 1:19 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Strikeout #2
Arevalo came to win
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 1:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That play was LAZY
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 1:24 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
too bad pitch counts dont really matter in softball
at least from what i understand
Once a Dawg, Always a Dawg. How Sweet it is!
Moody may not be batting for average right now...
But she’s got some serious hand eye coordination
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 1:38 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Nice play by Schlopy
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 1:45 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
CRAP
That is all.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 1:46 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
correction:
its hard to beat another team when your pitcher is having trouble locating her pitches
Once a Dawg, Always a Dawg. How Sweet it is!
Let's go Schlopy/Wiggins/Goler
Hit a multi-run HR
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 1:57 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Hey folks...
… sorry I was late. I made the same mistake a lot of people made yesterday… thought the game was at the wrong time.
Looks like we’re off to a slow start.
As much as I am on record hating blackouts...
… I have to wonder if the red jerseys are causing us some bad mojo today. It’s the first time we’ve used the red jersey since at least the regional, if not before. We’ve used the all-black Johnny Cash look since then when we’ve been the away team
i think the football team overhyped the blackout after the first one
but i still like all black
Once a Dawg, Always a Dawg. How Sweet it is!
It also looks like Kyle is out...
… so I guess I have to pick up the pessimistic mantle. Looks like defeat is inevitable at this point. The John Wooden aura is too strong.
I applaud the Dawgs for making it this far, though… they’ve been one of the very few bright spots in the dark island of Georgia athletics since January 1, 2008.
Well, to be fair...
… I said one of the few bright spots, not the only one. :-)
Baseball held out for a couple of seasons, but they’ve been sucked into the abyss, too. Now, we’re just pinning our hopes on the equestrian and softball teams.
Yeah...
Without Kyle here I feel myself drifting back towards the light.
Tankertoad — you can come out of the lead lined room now.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:10 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
You're kidding, right?
Tankertoad is probably already watching the game… and you can see the results.
Nah
If he was here Bates would’ve hit a Grand Slam and Schlopy would’ve broken her ankle, her wrist, and 3 ribs trying to catch it.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:13 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Fair point.
Maybe he’s just lurking on this thread, then, and not watching on TV. (There are “levels” to the curse, I believe.)
Ok... He's got to be here
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:15 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Not to be a Negative Nancy
but with their pitching and our lack of good pitching today. This does not look good…..
Kyle's not here...
So I’m gonna put on my (imaginary) lawyer pants and do my best Mayor impression:
GAME OVER!
Now, is there a UCLA blog I can concede defeat to?
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:19 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
You know...
… with as much conceding as Kyle’s been doing recently, one wonders if he’s not French.
(rimshot)
morning....
i’m here now….
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
And delicious baked goods
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:24 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
gotta wake up a bit more first
it was a late night….
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
We have got to make adjustments at the plate.
If not, we don’t give our pitchers any runs to work with.
You think that's funny...
Wait til you see her arms, legs…. Well, really anything below the neck.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
you are the dennis miller of blog photo references
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
I've been called worse!
Thanks tankertoad. I almost feel bad for helping Kyle heap all of the failures the Georgia Bulldogs have suffered on your back.
(Almost.)
Uh oh
Langenangenangenfeld is having control issues
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:26 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Alright... We're in business
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:29 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
crap
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
LOL
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Spoke too soon...
… I figured the joking meant she was ok.
On a side note, though, I hate this softball rule that states starters can be replaced and come back into the game.
Suzanne Yoculan has to be getting bored.
Couldn’t she just be an assistant for all the UGA teams?
Then again, The Yoculan takes a backseat to no one.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:42 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I can't think of a single argument against that
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:46 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
me either, even though i know i could not say that during football season
Once a Dawg, Always a Dawg. How Sweet it is!
When we have a football coach
That wins national championships 40% of the time, we’ll revisit the debate.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 2:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
as my dad always says on long fly ball outs...
“great hit, youre out”
Once a Dawg, Always a Dawg. How Sweet it is!
Yeah, they're fighting hard...
… but, unfortunately, it’s just not enough to overcome the Wooden mojo.
Langenfeld's blister
Is the new Steve Detwiler’s Thumb
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 3:04 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Why did you have to bring that up?
I think that comment alone provided that UCLA outfielder with the extra good fortune she needed to make that acrobatic catch.
I guess when you believe its already over...
There’s no fate to tempt
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 3:09 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I taunt...
Nay, dare fate to let Georgia win this game.
In the words of Sarah Conner, there is no fate but what we make.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 3:11 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I don't acknowledge the existence of that particular movie.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 3:20 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That last hit
Was guided into the glove by the Hand of Wooden
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 3:08 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
These commenters love them some UCLA.
I mean, it does make a great Wooden story and all, but virtually all of the great softball players from the past (who are doing this broadcast) are from California.
That would be like Jesse Palmer, Doug Johnson, and Danny Wuerffel broadcasting a Georgia-Florida game.
Or Jesse Palmer, Lou Holtz, and Mark May commenting on Georgia's chances...
Oh, wait…
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 3:15 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Ok, I've now had
my requisite game brownie….maybe things will pick up?
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
We can only hope, podunkdawg...
… at least, if I were capable of hope, which I am not, i would join others in only hoping.
Hmm that outfielder did not here me
telling her to miss it.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Congratulations to the UCLA Bruins.
They have fought hard, played a solid fundamental game, and they deserve the victory today.
At least we can say we beat Florida… and that’s a significant statement with the state of Georgia athletics as it is.
(I hate Florida)
Great season Dawgs… we’re proud of you!
For the record, though...
… unless it is proven otherwise, I remain of the belief that tankertoad was lurking here and/or watching on TV, and it was that stubborn refusal to acknowledge his curse that caused the Dawgs to lose.
i didnt do anything today
i turned on the tv, so 5-0, and turned it off. i figured we would win today and i would jinx us tonight.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Well that sucked
See ya’ll on the next comment thread in September
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Jun 6, 2010 3:23 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
damn
it was a helluva run by the Lady Dawgs and we have every right to be proud of them. I shall chalk this up to supernatural intervention by the Late Great Coach Wooden
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
my other thought
dear lord is it time for football yet??
I hate the off season, seems to get longer every year.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
YES!
It is time for football… World Cup football!!! Just 5 more days to go!
I know you meant “our” kind of football… but I’m too excited for that to matter! Should be a great tournament. :-D
GOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!
I am so freakin psyched I can hardly stand it.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
this would be another sport
i know almost nothing about. Apparently Clemson has a good soccer program, that’s where nephew is going this fall, in hopes of being a walk-on for soccer.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
The only thing I know about Clemson soccer...
… is that it produced the best defender our country has ever seen: Oguchi Onyewu. He’s living proof of what our soccer team could be like if the biggest, strongest, and fastest men in our country played soccer instead of football or basketball. Onyewu could have played for Tommy Bowden or whoever was coaching the basketball team in 2000 and 2001, but he chose the game his parents (Nigerian immigrants) raised him to love.
Unfortunately, our concept of college athletics is one that is uniquely American, and college soccer (at least, on the men’s side) has a long history of doing more harm than good when it comes to cultivating top-notch talent. Onyewu is the only exception I can think of on our current team, and even he only attended college for 2 years.
Much like baseball, the best soccer players go pro before college, and in the case of soccer, sometimes long before. Freddy Adu is the most famous American example of this, having sign a professional contract at age 14. Most major soccer clubs around the world have a youth academy, in fact, where the kids with the most talent are tutored privately and literally raised around the game of soccer. (The U.S. Soccer Federation has its own academy, started in 1999.)
Women’s soccer, on the other hand, has not even been a major worldwide organized sport for more than 25 years, and there are virtually no major (read: solvent) women’s professional soccer leagues around the world, so the college soccer structure is considered vital to support the women’s game.
It is because of this organizational difference in men’s and women’s soccer that I do not anticipate, nor would I support, creating men’s soccer as a varsity sport at Georgia. (The provisions of Title IX would make it virtually impossible to create a men’s varsity sport with such a large team structure anyway, but that’s beyond the point.) Georgia Bulldogs women’s soccer is a program that is finding more and more success at recruiting elite players, and those players are finding more and more NCAA success. As the quality of these players keep improving, we could very easily start seeing Georgia Bulldogs playing for the U.S. Women’s National Team… competing for (and winning) a World Cup. That is an expectation that, because of the organizational structure of soccer, we probably would not be able to expect from a men’s team. Women’s soccer at Georgia is on the right track, and it’s the only varsity soccer program we should continue to have.
I know this thread is, for all intents and purposes, dead now, but I thought that little bit of education might be useful.
by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2010 12:13 AM EDT up reply actions
You know, I just hate it when I'm wrong...
… and even more so when I’m immediately proven wrong by my own research.
No less than 9 of the United States’ 23-man squad for the World Cup attended college and played for a collegiate team for at least 2 years, so it appears that the college ranks do somewhat produce good players.
My point is at least partially confirmed, however, by the fact that Onyewu is the only starter among that group. (My point being that the best players don’t go to college.)
by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2010 12:20 AM EDT up reply actions
I believe
my nephew is a good player, but not necessarily among the best players, but then I know squat on the subject. He did tear his ACL either spring or fall of last year (i’m bad with time) and ended up sitting out through the fall session, but played this spring as a Senior….so I don’t know how much impact that had (assumably some impact.) All that said, college was never optional for him, so he found a place that both allows him to get an engineering degree and hopefully also play soccer.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
its only a matter of short time before that dude shows up with his ad for shoes
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
I only just got the opportunity to check the comment thread . . .
. . . because I spent all day yesterday helping my sister-in-law and her family move into their new house.
I want to thank everyone for participating and keeping the conversation going in my absence. The Bulldog softball team certainly did us proud, and with the youth of this team, there is every reason to believe Georgia will make it at least this far in next year’s Women’s College World Series.
I am obliged to all of you for your humor, your insights, and your involvement in the Dawg Sports community. While this, unfortunately, will be the last game day open comment thread here prior to Labor Day weekend, there is plenty more on tap here, and your continued presence is appreciated.
Go 'Dawgs!

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