One of the bizarre/endearing things about college baseball is that the limits of midweek travel sometimes leads to big-time teams visiting schools they would never give the time of day in revenue sports.
Tonight’s case in point is No. 8 Georgia. They have a home and home with Kennesaw State every year. But this year because their stadium is being redone, the Owls are playing this season at the Marietta campus, which used to be NAIA member Southern Polytechnic before the regents merged the schools together.
The first base bleachers barely extend past the near side of the dugout and from there it is a steeply sloped hill that is either brown grass or straight up dirt. The ESPN Plus announcers have no place to sit so they are calling the game from the booth at the football stadium about 10 miles away. The cameras have some kind of pack attached to them that gets the signal back to the basketball arena, which is where the production crew sits.
If there was a field big enough they’d have been better off playing at the complex for East Cobb Baseball, which is maybe the most prestigious travel ball organization. Then again it sometimes feels like this is the one somewhat popular college sport that hasn’t been fed to the Borg.
