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Graduation Speech: Red Sox Vs. The Athletics

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It was a quiet Tuesday night in a small town in Ohio. But two teams were just taking the field in what would be a great battle between them. It was the Red Sox vs. the Athletics with me being on the Red Sox while most of the better players being on the Athletics. The Athletics started to take the lead early and it continued through some of the early innings. Our coach Lance, who was a very corpulent and ignoble man started to become very irate with how we were playing. So between one of the innings he gave us a speech to try and motivate us into playing better. I must say that his speeches were more of pointing out mishaps and scolding people for them instead of motivation. Then there was me. Our team was playing good but it wasn’t good enough against the Athletics. The Athletics were one of the top teams in our league and we were more towards the bottom. I was doing my part in the game playing first base and it was more of our pitching that was bringing us down. During the game I remember the umpire made a bad call and it caused Lance to have an intemperate outburst of anger and storm onto the field. Then he …show more content…

That feeling of everyone congratulating you and talking about you was as sweet as cherry pie. But once the talk died down I went back to being the average baseball player. That year we didn’t even make it to the playoffs because our record was so bad and that would be the last time I would play for Lance. After that I didn’t continue my baseball career into high school or anything. The main reason being that there was a lot of competition and my skills were not up to par to compete. So that moment of me hitting the home run will also be something I look back on and smile about. Even though it may not be a big deal for some players who hit home runs all the time it definitely was for me because they tend to be pretty

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