My Baseball Career

Javi Martinez

 I was fresh off an amazing summer of my sophomore year where I picked up offers to University of Georgia State and the University of Georgia Southern. I was thinking going into the fall of my junior year I had the third base position locked; I mean I came off one of the best summers of my life and I was feeling good about my whole game at the moment. Throughout the whole fall I would compete knowing I was trying to win the job, but we would go back and forth on good and bad days so you could never really decide who would be where because if the days were even. Towards the end of fall he called both of us to a meeting to make his decision to who was going to start in the spring, he decided that he was going to choose him for right now but the spot could still be earned in the spring early games. So, I went into Christmas break working out every day getting to the best shape I could just to compete with guy above me, so when the season came around, I did my absolute best I could get that spot, but he still chooses him over me. That night when he announced the lineup I was absolutely devastated. 

What I didn’t realize until I got older is that his attitude and his grades put him above me I was a poor student never really tried into the classroom I thought life was baseball but not knowing that was the true definer I why I didn’t play most junior season was my grades it would have changed my whole demeaner towards my grades and would have for sure changed my attitude towards the coach. Because I felt like he never really liked me at all and I had to do the most to impress but soon to realize that it wasn’t for me to impress him he just had higher expectations for me to be that great player and bat middle of the order for him but I never seized the opportunity the right way. First game of the season comes I’m sitting on the bench mad at myself and at him because I thought he wasn’t a good person and a horrible coach, anyways we jumped out to an early lead we was up 10-0 in the second inning I was sitting on the bench still in a bad mood thinking why am I even here. Fast forward to the 6^th inning we is up 15-1 coach looks at me and tells me I’m batting third next inning so I went to go warm up too get as loose as I can to show what I could do. The guy in front of me smokes a ball into left field in the gap he ends up getting a double so I come up to the plate I was nervous more than ever and before I know it I’m down in the count 1-2 thinking if I strike out I’m never going to hear the end of it, so I told myself I was going to swing as hard as I can at this next pitch and the pitch comes and I hit to left center about 400ft on top of the trees the place is going crazy I was looking up to the lord and I was saying thank you because I really needed that one to bring up my morale towards the whole sport.

I finished the season with only a couple at bats the whole year thinking to myself I just wasted a whole year of high school, but things never changed in the classroom so we can skip forward to present day the reason why I am at a junior college is because of my grades till this day I think if I put have the effort into the my studies would I go to the school I would want to go to instead of me going another just because I was lazy during high school.  The moral of the story is always put education first because without an education you can’t get nowhere in life.