What a wonderful spring we are enjoying in America’s Greatest College Town. Front and center is the Georgia baseball team, a consensus top ten club in the thick of the rugged Southeastern Conference race.

Georgia football has been the center of my universe for five decades now, but springtime in Athens is hard to beat. The beautiful weather, the flowers blooming and so many sports to follow. If it is one of those days when baseball and one of the tennis teams are both competing right next to one another at Foley Field and the Dan Magill Tennis Complex, with a meet just up Pinecrest at the corner of Lumpkin at the Spec Towns Track, it’s a whole lotta fun. And generally, a whole lot of winning.

When baseball is going good for the Bulldogs, it’s the program that seems to capture the fancy of the red and black faithful more than any sport outside of ‘King Football.’

Mission accomplished thus far here in 2025.

Wes Johnson is in his second season as the Bulldogs head coach, and is doing incredible things. In his first year, led by Golden Spikes Award winner Charlie Condon and All-SEC sidekick Corey Collins, the Bulldogs advanced to the Super Regionals for the first time since David Perno’s incredible 2008 College World Series Finalist / SEC Champion juggernaut. An epic extra innings victory over the Yellow Jackets to clinch the Regional title in Athens will long be remembered as one of the most thrilling, compelling and nerve-wracking Georgia victories in Foley Field annals.

With the program on rocket fuel moving forward, the question then became, could this Georgia team match what last season’s did, and go even one step forward, and make it to Omaha?

That’s the mission, the long term goal, and to a man, every player on the team, when asked what this team is capable of, the answer has been, winning it all in Omaha.

Big dreams, realistic expectations.

These Bulldogs of 2025 got off to a record setting start, coming out of the gates at 29-2 and 8-1 in Southeastern Conference play, highlighted by back-to-back weekend sweeps of Florida in Gainesville and Auburn in Athens.

A slew of dramatic, improbable victories has fueled Bulldog Baseball mania even more.

Combined with the improvements and innovations at beautiful Foley Field, a major project that J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks and his team has done amazing work with, there is a wonderful spirit of excitement around this program. Games are sold out at 3,633 capacity. The players and fans feed off one another, creating an electric environment – especially when Billy Squier’s classic “The Stroke” blasts during a late inning Georgia rally through the new and improved sound system, when the opposition goes to the bullpen. For Georgia fans local, and around the state, going to watch the Bulldogs play is the thing to do in Athens.

With G-Day upon us, there will be an overflow crowd in Athens this weekend, and Georgia will have another enormous SEC showdown on the docket, with top-ranked Arkansas coming to town.

The Bulldogs are unfortunately coming off three straight losses at Texas in a top five showdown, the lone losing streak of the season, which dropped Georgia to 29-5 and 8-4 in the league. These things happen in a league that has produced the last five national championships from five different schools. That includes the 2022 Ole Miss Rebels, who went 14-16 in SEC play, and yes, won the national championship. If you’re good enough to survive the grind and get a berth, you’ve got a chance to make it to Omaha, College Baseball’s Field of Dreams.

It is such a joy calling these games with my longtime broadcast partner David Johnston – with 32-year Sports Information ace Chris Lakos alongside – and this team has truly captured the imagination of every Georgia fan.

Can they do it?

Georgia’s greatest strengths this season have come from its depth. A strong lineup 1-9, featuring Slate Alford, Kolby Branch, Ryland Zabarowski, Robbie Burnett and Tre Phelps – hopefully back from injury soon – is amongst the nation’s leaders in home runs and one of the SEC’s best in runs produced.

With a few arms rounding into form coming back from injury, Georgia’s starting pitching figures to have its best days ahead. Charlie Goldstein, Brian Curley and Leighton Finley currently comprise the three-man weekends rotation. Head coach Johnson, a pitching guru, has put together a deep group of arms. Versatile Kolten Smith, who has also started, and D.J. Radtke are amongst the headliners of a bullpen which has been one of the league’s best, and kept Georgia within striking distance for several comeback wins

This team has a tremendous never say die attitude, and will to win. There are a great number of strengths on this team, and the Dogs have looked darn near invincible at Foley Field. So here’s to a strong, second half, a national seed, and hopefully regional and super regional victories in Athens this June. With Omaha, the ultimate destination.

I certainly believe these Bulldogs have the ability to make it the College World Series, and do some damage in Omaha. But there’s no rush. Every game, every weekend – though extremely stressful – is a lot of fun, so we’re savoring the journey.

That’s where the best stories come from.

Especially – like the glorious gridiron National Championships of 2021 and 2022 – the stories which have perfect endings.