Dawg Sports G-Day/Men's Tennis/Baseball Athens Excursion Set for April 16!
by T Kyle King on Apr 2, 2011 12:00 PM EDT
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PrintThanks to the dedicated efforts of NCT (who did all the legwork), the April 16 Dawg Sports outing in Athens is a go. (We don’t yet have a name for it, but you may feel free to offer suggestions in the comments below, as I certainly hope we will be able to attach the modifier "first annual" before whatever moniker the community prefers.) Here is the schedule:
- 1:00 p.m.: G-Day Game at Sanford Stadium
- 3:30 p.m.: Men’s Tennis v. Tennessee at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex
- 5:00 p.m.: Baseball v. Florida at Foley Field
It is not entirely clear whether admission to G-Day will be free or for a nominal fee, but, obviously, it will not be a sell-out. (We’re not Alabama!) Seating for men’s tennis is general admission, and there is no charge for attending. Because it is not possible to buy a block of reserved seat tickets at Foley Field as large as we ostensibly will need, our best bet is to purchase general admission baseball tickets for $5.00 apiece through the University of Georgia ticket office. Because there is a chance that the baseball game will sell out, I strongly recommend that you buy your baseball tickets now!
We will be assembling in front of the ATMs in the Tate Center plaza at 12:30, half an hour before kickoff of the G-Day game; if folks want to tailgate before congregating at the Tate Center, feel free to organize such meetings in the comments below. From the Tate Center, we’ll be heading together to Sanford Stadium, and from there en masse to each subsequent venue in succession.
If you can only make it to one or two of the events, we’d still love to have you there. If you plan to attend but think you might be joining the group late, please e-mail me here and I’ll provide you with a means for contacting us in the Classic City.
Finally, please recommend this posting by clicking "rec" to keep it at the top of the page and in plain view.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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I personally think we should go with "T. Kyle King's Day Off"
Complete with a heart melting rendition of Danke Schoen perfomed by Mr. King himself at the Tate Plaza prior to kickoff.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Apr 2, 2011 12:12 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
“What’s the score?”
“Nothin’-nothin’”
“Who’s winning?”
“The Buckeyes.”
We might have to take a side-trip to Butts-Mehre and have some Dream Academy piped in while someone gazes pensively at Herschel’s Heisman.
by NCT on Apr 2, 2011 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions
You mean I'm the only one that currently does that?
I thought everybody else was just doing so on the weekends :-(
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Apr 2, 2011 9:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That may be the first time anyone ever analogized me to Ferris.
In most of the situations I have encountered in life, I have been Cameron.
In a related item, whenever I watch the “Godfather” films, I like to think of myself as Tom Hagen, but, deep down, I know I’m Frankie Pentangeli.
Go 'Dawgs!
Eternal optimist that I am
I’m hoping the upcoming season will bring about a more rollicking, carefree Kyle.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Apr 2, 2011 9:22 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
In a fitting bit of coincidence...
… I will be attending the 80th birthday celebration of Mrs. Vineyarddawg’s grandmother on that day. I will be with the DawgSports community in spirit, however… especially at the baseball game.
(I hate Florida.)
Have we talked to the ticket office about baseball?
Just today, the guy hosting the birthday party we went to said tickets were $2 each for groups above 10.
I have 4.5 years to retire - then TKK said i could be in control of discipline and "all things that suck". Working on it.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
News to me.
NCT contacted the powers that be in Athens about block seating for a group and was informed that reserved seats could not be purchased in a block for a group this large, so individually purchasing general admission tickets was our best option. If you could talk to the guy hosting the birthday party and find out what he knows, how he knows it, and how we can avail ourselves of that information, that could be helpful.
For the record, though, since I’ve gone ahead and purchased my general admission ticket, and since this could be a sellout (particularly now that the Diamond Dogs are starting to win a few), my advice to everyone is to pay the five bucks and order your tickets now. We’re talking three dollars’ difference measured against the opportunity to spend an afternoon in Athens in the spring watching three different Bulldog sporting events with the Dawg Sports crowd. That’s worth an extra three bucks, to my way of thinking.
Go 'Dawgs!
I've gotten group tickets to a baseball game this year
They don’t do them for Saturday games (It’s the same form for groups/birthdays). Also called the ticket office last week, and they were sold out of reserved seats except for singles (they had no 2 or more together), and the guy I talked to told me that the General Admission tickets were going quickly as well, so I got 5 for my people. I recommend anyone that’s planning on going getting their tickets online ASAP. They sold out yesterday for the Saturday Mississippi State game when nothing else really notable was going on in town, so my guess is the Florida game will definitely sell out as well.
This.
Most, if not all, Saturday games are exempt from the group package discount. This one (4/16) is. It’s likely one could buy a block of reserved seats at regular price if one did so when the desired number was still available, but such was not the case when I called last week.
I just bought a pair of general admission tickets for the 4/16 game, so it’s not yet sold out, unless I got the last two.
By the by ...
Barring a really bizarre combination of outcomes, tennis will not have finished before time for first pitch. While not impossible, the chance of seeing both tennis and baseball in their entireties is so small as to be negligible. Some choices will have to be made.
On the other hand...
If you sit high enough in the tennis complex, you could probably watch both simultaneously.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Apr 4, 2011 2:28 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
uh - from Emma Stone?
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
I don't get it.
RC’s avatar is the Georgia “G” with the chicken from the Tottenham Hotspur crest sitting on it.
I’m investigating at this very moment how to do a similar thing with the Everton crest…
I dont know i do either - but it says Emma Stone
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Allow me to explain
Both good things.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
she looks like LL
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
But wait: there's more!
UGA has devoted a page on its web site to the weekend’s festivities. Check out the rundown here.
Of note (in addition to the events above):
11:15 – Letterman flag football @ Sanford.
2:30 – UGA softball versus Ole Miss (if you absolutely hate tennis and must split from the pack)
3-5:30 – Butts-Mehre expansion open house. (So I might have to chase down some Dream Academy before the trip, after all.)
Also, Zeier, Greene, and Shockley will be competing in a QB skills competition at G-Day halftime “to help raise support and awareness for the Johnathan Taylor Fund.” Fans can bid on the QB of their choice. Each QB will be paired up with an auction winner and compete for prizes, including a significant donation to the JT fund. Details at the link.
by NCT on Apr 5, 2011 3:44 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I got mine on Wednesday, as well.
(Sorry I’ve been incommunicado, all; my computer was out of commission for 24 hours, from midday yesterday to midday today, but I’ll be up and running this evening to get you caught up on anything you might have missed yesterday!)
Go 'Dawgs!
cant wait to see everyone.
i will sadly only be able to join for the baseball game since i have work till 3. lame i know.
on the upside i should get to the baseball game around 3:30, so i can save seats for as many people as i can. not promising a high success rate, but i will promise a strong effort. let me know about how many seats i need to try and save
cant wait to see everyone and hopefully beat UF.
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. ~Rick Maksian
2 days away.
I’ve (shamefully, I know) never been to a G-Day game. How will parking around campus work? Is it like regular season games? More specifically, will my North Deck parking pass let me park there for free or will I have to find alternative means?
Parking shouldn't be a huge problem.
I’m not sure what the deal will be on the parking deck, though. I’m planning to park near the Coliseum, since I’ll be leaving for home from Foley Field. See you there!
Go 'Dawgs!
I'm not going to G-Day, but...
Last time I went a couple of years ago, there was more than enough parking at the Hull Street Deck. There should be more than enough.
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