The smell of freshly cut grass, the sound of leather rawhide hitting an aluminum bat and the frost bite nipping at your nose....Yep, you got it, Oglethorpe Baseball is back and ready for the 2007 campaign. Unseasonably warm 70 degree January days have given way to 35 degree, foggy, rainy miserable afternoons. Not that we have come to expect anything less. Around January every year until May I put on my weatherman cap and watch countless hours of moving cold fronts, low pressure systems, prevailing winds and whatever the heck El Nino really means to us in Atlanta...
2007, my third year as the Head Coach and my eighth year at Oglethorpe, seems to be starting like every other baseball season before, but something tells me it won't end the same. In 2002, a magical year indeed (yes, OU actually gave me a degree) but more importantly the last time the Diamond Petrels were the Champions of anything; Beast in the East, SCAC East Division Champs...sounds good, sounds really good. Four years have passed, and the 2007 Petrels are ready to sit atop the perch once again. We are excited about this year and the future of the program. Young talented players combined with a few seasoned vets could spell trouble for the SCAC East this year. The past is the past.....fresh faces and energizing attitudes will make Anderson Field the place to be this spring.
Oglethorpe Baseball will blog their quest for a SCAC Championship in 2007. I guarantee some interesting posts, and a roller coaster ride through the life of Division III athletes, coaches and fans. I will ask the student-athletes, coaches, administrators, fans, parents and alumni to contribute to the blog on their experiences past and present. Stay tuned, its all about the journey.....but this time the ending will be different.
So, where do we start......well...at the beginning.
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Go Petrels! I'm just glad I'm not grilling hot dogs.
Oops. Did I say that out loud?
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