re: 2025 #9 Diamond Dawgs (36-11, 12-9) / Game 48: Friday vs Mizzou (7 pm; SECN+)

Wasn’t our stiffest non con schedule by any stretch but winning 24/26 games (with a lot of those being staff or midweek) is exceedingly difficult to pull off.

Also, swept our in-state rivals which hasn’t always been a guarantee in baseball. Nice result all around.

FWIW, some writer for D1 baseball said on Sirius XM (Kendall Rodgers) a bit ago that Wes and the guy from the barn were the top 2 picks to replace the Miss St coach...

Said AU coach had deep ties to MSU and that Brooks and UGA don't care bout baseball and wouldn't match a offer...

Don't know....

Kendall also said when we hired Wes that UGA was foolish and unserious about baseball for passing on Justin Haire at Campbell.

Wes is currently 79-28 in 2 seasons at UGA.

Haire is 11-30 at Ohio State.

But yeah, a $45 million dollar expansion to Foley field later with well-founded rumors that we plan to move the scoreboard out of right field so we can expand seating and will build a parking deck beyond left… we really don’t care about baseball…

Point being: Kendall may know the MSU side but he doesn’t know shite about UGA

I think there are two Kendall’s: the version you get behind D1Baseball paywalls and on the podcasts when he can be relatively level headed or at least makes an effort to justify his positions.

And then there’s the kind you get on Twitter or on a larger megaphone (like SiriusXM) when he feels the need to be a hot take machine to elevate his and his company’s brand. Which I can’t argue he and D1Baseball have played a role in elevating college baseball through those methods. But it’s also annoying when you are tuned in enough to the sport to know he’s blowing hot air.