Georgia Forces Florida School To Fire Administrator For Ill-Advised Jinx During Brutal Baseball Loss

Florida Gulf Coast was on the verge of a college baseball upset against Georgia on Friday night. However, the Eagles completely choked and it led to the ouster of their social media admin.

He or she made an ill-advised post that has since been deleted because of its bad luck.

Admittedly, I think FGCU was making a self-deprecating joke— and a good one at that. I don’t have reason to believe that anyone actually got fired because of a not-so-subtle jab that very quickly soured. But with that being said, it is much funnier to imagine that somebody on staff was reassigned because he or she made a joke that proved to be a massive college baseball jinx.

The Eagles did not waste any time in the top of the first. They plated five runs right out of the gate and jumped out to a 5-0 lead. The Bulldogs got one of the runs back in the bottom of the third. A score of 5-1 held until the fifth inning.

That is when the jinx occurred. Florida Gulf Coast took a direct shot at the SEC with a post on X.

Georgia proceeded to score three runs in the bottom half of the fifth inning to get back within one. It later took a 9-7 lead in the sixth inning. Uh oh… Maybe they are SEC after all!

The Eagles responded with a solo shot in the eighth and tied the game at nine in the ninth. They had three outs to force a 10th inning. They were unable to do so.

A lead-off hit-by-pitch, two walks and two errors led to a walk-off fielder’s choice for the Bulldogs.