Year of the Pitcher

In baseball people have talked about how it might be the Year of the Pitcher. They say it might be the Year of the pitcher because pitchers are starting to get very dominate to the game of baseball. In the past pitchers were considered very good if they were hitting 90mph, now pitchers are throwing high 90's and mid 90's with other pitches such as the change-up going down as low as low 80's or high 70's. As a batter that is very tough to hit because of the reaction time, you have about a second or less to decide to swing and if it's a good pitch, but if someone throws a 75mph change-up after throwing a mid 90's fastball it is very hard to adjust. When you are a batter you are successful if you were batting .300 batting .300 is only getting three hits out of ten, but those three hits are much harder now.

Authors note: This is a personal metaphor created in a class writing activity for practice.

I am a bee lying in the weeds.

I am a waiting puppy with anxious eyes.

I am the smell of baking bread.

I am a short, well built man. 

Sweet Lou

When does it get old? In the book Sweet Lou by Melissa Isaacson, Lou Piniella long time baseball star as a MVP, manager of the year has now found his passion for managing the Chicago Cubs to maybe their first World Series in more than a Century. The story starts out describing young Lou as a little boy always watching and dreaming to become the baseball superstar. Well in the book Lou's family wasn't exactly the wealthiest, they didn’t have much baseball equipment to practice with other than a glove and a ball, nor did they have much food or water. The family saved their scraps and managed to gather enough water from the near pond and food from their leftovers to live happy and to stay alive. Lou's father saw Lou's passion for baseball he realized that without baseball Lou wouldn’t do anything with his life. So his father practiced ever day with Lou to maybe perk up his spirits until he realized Lou needed an education, after about a couple years Lou got into college. With the tuff grades and baseball on his mind Lou was about to drop out of college, until he met his coach, his coach loved Lou he liked the way he hit and fielded. With the courage that his coach had provided him Lou ended up picking up his grades so he could play on the baseball team, which he ended up getting drafted to the MLB. What Lou did had inspired many people, what kept him going was his will power he wasn’t going to quit, which was the purpose of the story never stop trying.

The purpose to the story was to show that even though things might be tough, if you put in the work the results will come. When Lou was a young boy and his family wasn’t exactly the wealthiest, Lou realized that he's got to work to get to the life he wished to have for him and his family. Later on in the book it showed how Lou then fulfilled his dreams to become a baseball player then a manager. To get what you want you have to work which my family relates to.

In the book Sweet Lou there were a lot of times where my family could relate to him. With the purpose of the story being never quit, relates to my family because we never quit. When you quit at something it’s a sign of not improving, a sign that you're lazy. When your grandma comes to see you, then finds out your not what she wanted shame will find its own level. Therefore in the book Lou's very much wanted dreams was to grow up being like his grandfather, which was hardnosed in your face one hundred percent work ethic.

The book Sweet Lou had a very touching ending because the fact that Lou has grown up. His parent helped him through his whole life getting him into college and some education, also giving him the great dream and joy for the game of baseball. With not much money to even get food on the table Lou still got the love for the game, which is what most people would love to have someday.      

     

Prompt 1 question

In my childhood I have had many great times, with friends or family. One of my greatest memories every was probably beating the Muskego basketball team in fourth grade. This team was undefeated and most games weren't even close. To beat them you had to show and give everything you had. My team we gave everything we had and at the end of the game we saw the scoreboard and we had won.

When My team beat them in fourth grade it changed me forever because I learned one valuable lesson you know when you are going one hundred percent, and you can't win or do anything if you're not going one hundred percent. This memory also changed me forever because of what we had to do to get to what we had accomplished. I now realize why wouldn't you go one hundred percent, because the world can end any given day you could die any given day, so you don’t know when its going to end like in the state tournament in high school basketball a senor might have his last game in a Pewaukee uniform right there on the court. So why don't you want to leave on a good note?

The whole reason this universe was created was to see how far you can live or to see the best you can do, so what is the point of not giving what you have. There were a couple famous quotes by Michael Jordon one being "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." This quote specifically speaks out to being lazy. When people ask you to get them a glass of coffee and the coffee machine is ten feet away that’s called lazy, which is less then one hundred percent. This was one of my greatest memories and I think about it everyday. 

 

March Madness

Around the country there are many colleges, which all have a sport team. There is one very common sport called basketball. Now in the country March Madness is a huge tournament that is a college basketball thrill. You have to make the tournament by having a good record in the league. Once they seed you there is four of every seed from 1-16. In Wisconsin we usually always cheer for Marquette which this year they hopefully do good. I am a huge march Madness fan and hope Marquette goes far.

Albert Pujols

Albert Pujols also known as the machine as possibly the greatest batter in baseball. He teaches a lot of people how to hit with his thrilling mechanics and his locked front leg, it makes hm the ultimate person. With practice and desire Albert Pujols made it to the MLB, where he now gets paid for his skill level. For myself I have been looking up to him to maybe have a shot or have fun or make the MLB. 

Phoning a Dead Man

How would you feel if your parents burned everything in your room while you were away somewhere? In the book Phoning a Dead Man by Gillian Cross Hayley's older brother John, went away to Siberia to do a demolition job, but the mystery was unknown when only his ashes came back. John's fiancé Annie Glasgow had spectacular information about the death that didn’t add up, Annie also said how she wanted to go to the place where he died for herself, but the only problem with that was she was in a wheelchair so someone had to go with her and that was Hayley. When Hayley flied to Siberia with Annie they discover something very interesting in the Siberian Forest they meet this strange man that was covered in ticks, and looked a little dangerous. They had found out that the man was there working on the same thing as John. Later on in the book they find out that he had something to do to it but that would be stated once the cops arrived. When the cops arrived the answers all came out, he was the murderer, and he was after john because in their college they happened to be roommates that never got along at the point Annie was silent not one word. That is why love is needed in the human life.

In the book Phoning a Dead Man by Gillian Cross the purpose was to show that you can have the expensive toys and such, but you really only need love. When Annie was about to get married that was the only thing she dreamed about. When they finally got engaged in the book they agreed to go everywhere together, and do everything as a team. Well before they got engaged John had a job he was going to do the whole time, but when he went to do his job there was no coming back. Annie was crushed, but that’s what life is all about, life is like a roller coaster everybody has their ups and downs that’s what love brings you. Sometimes it may be that it destroys you and crushes you, but you need to have it for a healthy life.

Just like having the purpose and meaning of the story, you also have to have the plot-line to really enjoy the book. The plot-line to Phoning a Dead man was a Comedy, not because it was funny, but because of the relations between the characters, the story became a Comedy style of writing. It had to be a Comedy and no other because even though when they were about to get married, that was Annie's first true love so when John died that had her experience what she had coming into life. The story was also a Comedy because the book was realistic, the tragedy plot-line is also realistic, but it was a Comedy because Annie hadn't seen her grandma ever, not once. So when John died an unexpected happiness had soon arose, her grandma a day later came to spend the rest of her life with Annie so she can once see her and to feel a part of a wonderful life, which made the book fall right into Comedy.  

The book Phoning a Dead Man is a great love story, that would encourage everybody to see what wonders head on in life. The book also showed how easy it is to lose something no matter how close it was to coming true, so the book was also trying to say live life to the full because you never know when it can end or just begin. 

   

   

The Hostage Final essay

     "He's there he's there I hear him" no he's not, it's silent. You think it's silent believe me he's here. Bam, Bam! What was that, "just run!" Do you still hear him," Bam! He's everywhere where do we run, into the bank they have many  officers there. In the book The Hostage by W.E.B. Griffin, there is two major  life lessons that W.E.B. Griffin tried to emphasize the phrases play don't watch, and eat or be eaten.
     In the book The Hostage the phrase play don’t watch would refer to monkey  see monkey do, when W.E.B. Griffin stated play don't watch he meant react  to the action, don't think. The book The Hostage is an FBI action book,when Betsy Masterson, wife of J. Winslow Masterson, deputy Chief of Mission  at the American Embassy in Argentina is kidnapped everybody hopes that the  kidnappers will realize that they kidnapped a diplomat's wife and let her go.  Then when they realize the kidnappers won’t give her back two characters  Charley, and Winslow have to fly down to Argentina and get her back. The books passion was to show what can be done when the panic in the air has hit the sea (page 198).
     The next life lesson was eat or be eaten, in the book since it was an up tempo FBI book. When they had to go and look for the kidnappers in Argentina it was a solo battle. They had to split up to sneak into the kidnappers ware house and in that point of the book nobody was in team mode. If somebody died they happened to die if you were in the situation you went for the championship, for survival.
     The Final thoughts on the book was to critique the slow quiet parts of the book. In the book there was many pages over 500 and in that sequence of pages there were repeated words, and the same objective and people. For about five chapters sometimes the book would have the dry taste where you don't want to read it, but there was no grammar or spelling errors.
    
  

Regional's

This year after a couple dramatic loses in the Woodlen Conference, the Pewaukee Pirates have now made regional's. It has been a remarkable year with injuries and illnesses being recovered, but we now have our full team and are in action. We have a match up against Catholic Memorial, this has been a hard dedicated team and with some ups and downs they matched up with us. The test has come and now it's up to who wants it more, because they have both proved that they deserve to be here. The Pewaukee Pirates have two seniors David Reese, and Tony Trahan. If the pirates were to lose that would be their last game at Pewaukee. So it has come down to the two teams winner advances to the next game closer to the championship.