ATHENS, Ga. — Not that the Georgia Bulldogs required any real shock therapy before entering a more interesting phase of their championship defense. Nonetheless, the Braves just maybe attached electrodes to some sensitive areas and sent a jolt of perspective this way Saturday while making their own ugly, inglorious exit.
On the same afternoon that defending champion Georgia met the obligation of smashing Vanderbilt’s atoms – that’s 55-0 on Saturday, a composite 117-0 the past two years, and a shutout that extends to before the pandemic, seeing how the Commodores begged out of the 2020 game – the defending champion Braves were blown out of the MLB playoffs by Philadelphia.
A season ago, the Braves and Bulldogs staged a great harmonic convergence, two teams in the same state making overdue returns to glory within months of each other. There’s so much overlap in the Venn diagram of these two fan bases, and as a result, there was so much joy to be shared last fall and winter.
