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- The Red Sox had won their second world Series in 4 years.
- Theo Epstein Thinks that the past 5 years were the best the red Sox had ever had.
- Schilling got a deal of $8 million to come back fpr the 2008 season.
- Josh Beckett was signed for three years for $12.5.
- They are saying the Red Sox have a better team now and have more players that they can fall back on.
4 questions
- Why does it seem that certain teams have rivalries with other teams?
- Is it necessary to always have competition during a game of bases ball?
- After the season when do they players do there training?
- Why do so many people want to get into the Major leagues and not because of the money?
3 vocabulary
- tumultuous: raising a great commotion
- eerie: uncanny
- pronouncement: an opinion or decision
2 literary
- This was now talking about the present day Red Sox.
- It also spoke a lot about trading members.
1 overview
- This really summed up everything that had happened in the book.
5 comments
- This chapter was called two steps forward and before reading i just want to make a guess that now the Red Sox will get back on track and have a better season than their last season.
- Daisuke Matsuzaka was turned into a celebrety because before he came here no one knew him from outside of japan.
- Ichiro Suzuki was also from Japan and came in 2001 but he played with the Seattle Mariners.
- Suzuki was a good ball player and he was the main cause so many new players had come from Japan.
- Base-Ball players get paid up into the millions.
4 questions
- Why do players and faculty get payed so much?
- Why when they get one good player from one place they keep going back there to get new players and never try any where new?
- Why is base-ball just seem so important to some people?
- Is base-ball something that has come through history and where did it really originate from?
3 vocabulary
- frontline: fore front in any action
- fruitful: producing good results
- acumen: keen insight
2 literary
- This went back to 1975 to talk about the most valuable player.
- Then it also went back to 1995, and 1999.
1 overview
- This is about how the Red Sox won another World Series and how hard they tried at it and about the new player they brought on to play this season.
5 comments
- In 2005 both manger Terry Francona and general manager Theo Epstein were getting aggravated because the season wasn't going as planned.
- The 2004 world series made epstien like a celebrity.
- The Red Sox gave Beane a salary of $2.5 million.
- In December 2001 Henry Lucchino, and Tom Werner were named the new Red Sox owners.
- The chapter was called one step back and i think that was becasue they won the 2004 world series but then could not keep up in 2005.
4 questions
- Why are managers and general manager necessary for the game of base-ball and what do they really contribute to the team?
- Why has sports became such a big thing where now people are getting paid and they are really advanced?
- What sport is most watched, and what sport is least watched?
- Why have people became so interesting in watching sports?
3 vocabulary
- lofty: exalted in rank
- severance: a breaking off
- validation: to give legal force
2 literary
- This book goes back a lot to prior seasons that they red Sox have played in.
- "was so blind with rage" ( Massarotti, pg. 229)
1 overview
- This was about the 2005 year of the Red Sox and how they weren't doing that great and how the manager and general manager were getting frustrated about it.
5 comments
- Red Sox won their first world series in 86 years on October 27, 2004.
- Tim Wakefeild said "we'll never hear the '1918' chants again" (Massarotti, pg.191)
- Derek Lowe was credited with the three wins in the post season.
- The Red Sox were down 3-0 to the Yankees and then they won 8 games in a row.
- The parade that the Red Sox had after their victory brought in about 3.2 million people.
4 questions
- I really didn't understand the quote that Tim Wakefeild had said.
- If you are a baseball player and are talking to the press and you say something that is incorrect or is not supposed to be talked about do you get in trouble with the managers?
- On some teams is there really a player that everyone thinks they can't live without because they technically run the team?
- Why do some of the players get cocky and think that the team can't live without them even thought they really can?
3 vocabulary
- prospects: the outlook for the future
- tandem: one following or behind the other
- shambles: a scene of destruction
2 literary
- This chapter in the book had a lot of thing italicized.
- This was a lot about how the Red Sox's changed as a team.
1 overview
- This was about the Red Sox winning their world series and celebrating and how much work it took to win.
5 comments
- This talked a lot about 2003 baseball season and how the Red Sox were having a hard time winning and getting in the game.
- Foulke had a performance that gave him a salary from $6 to $7 million.
- This said a lot about how the Red Sox got Foulke to join their team.
- The Red Sox had a 15-6 start in the game.
- Telling a lot about the Red Sox and them winning and doing the right thing so they could actually win.
4 questions
- Do players have any say in how much money they are going to be payed during the season?
- Why are baseball players paid so much money?
- Do players sometimes have a problem excepting new players when they are from a rival team?
- Why do teams swap players and just keep the teams the same all the time?
3 vocabulary
- potent: powerful ; mighty
- relish: liking or enjoying the taste of something
- ressurected: bring back into practice, notice, or use
2 literary
- There was a section in the book that contained pictures of the Red Sox and their winnings.
- "How do we keep this thing together" (pg. 190) this was when they were saying how they were going to keep winning.
1 overview
- This was about how the Red Sox game back and started winning and were starting to have an ok season.
5 comments
- People say that the length of the baseball season makes it impossible to be consistent on all time.
- Cliff Floyd accepted a chance in the job of being the general manager of the Milwaukee beavers.
- This chapter was mostly about about the general manager and how they got switched and new ones came in.
- Beane was accepted into the Red Sox with a $13 million contract.
- Derek Lowe said "I think we'd win 50 and they'd win 50" about the two teams that were playing in the game.
4 questions
- Do players have a schedule where they can take days off or do they always have to play when they are scheduled?
- Can players, managers, and so on switch teams in the middle of a season?
- What does a free-agent season mean?
- In baseball what does the manager and the general manager really do?
3 vocabulary
- inaugural: begin ; open
- endeavor: try hard, earnest attempt
- foregone: that has gone before
2 literary
- "I am declaring New England to be a no-fret zone. let's enjoy the postseason." (pg. 130)
- "I like our chances against anybody" (pg. 130)
1 overview
- This was about the manager and general manager of the Red Sox and how they were switching and getting new managers and what not.
5 comments
- There were new owners of the of the Red Sox club in 2002.
- In 2001 the clubs payroll increased to 100 million.
- John Henry didn't care that Johnny Damon was signed to the Red Sox.
- The new owners had to adjust to everything and work with the players.
- In 2001 Garciaparra was on a campaign and had to cut it short because he went in for wrist surgery.
4 questions
- Do politics really have a influence on baseball and whats going to happen?
- Why does one person get to make the decisions on what person goes to what team he went to and why does it really matter?
- When a new owner takes over do all the players have to go through and meet them or do they have to meet them at another time?
- Do teammates have a say in weather the person will join the team or not?
3 questions
- phenomenon: impressive or extraordinary
- fraternization: to associate in a friendly way
- pessimistic: gloomy
2 literary
- The book is referring to a lot of other teams and how they also affected baseball.
- This is a lot about the Red Sox in like 2002 and its telling about them and how they adjusted to new managers.
1 overview
- This was about the new club owners and how they adjusted and worked with the Red Sox and how they did and how they settled in.
5 comments
- The baseball season usually runs from February to October and that's the beginning of spring training to the World Series.
- During the 1990 series the Red Sox were finally in the position to trade in the middle of the season who could help them in the second half.
- There are a lot of terms in the book like 1.23 ERA and they sometimes are harder to understand.
- People found it odd that Garciaparra jumped right into the major league games.
- This told a lot about the people who were on the team and how they reacted and worked there.
4 questions
- Why does the baseball season run from February to October?
- Why in baseball do all players have to be compared to each other?
- Why does it seem like baseball players always even during the off season are very busy and are always having to focus on baseball?
- Why if you are only in the minor leagues are you not even compared to the major leagues if you are just as good?
3 vocabulary
- tangible: having physical existence
- abysmal: bad or severe
- bigotry: stubborn and complete intolerance
2 literary
- Its going back to the 1997 and then starts to talk about that season and on from there.
- "he wanted to be a star" metaphor (pg 54)
1 overview
- This chapter had a lot of things about trading players, like how they decided to trade the players and who they thought were going to be better for the team and who wouldn't be good for the team.
5 comments
- The Red Sox general manager is Dan Duquette.
- In 2001 the general manager Dan Duquette started to feel run down because it was moving to quickly.
- There was a quote said that said "there's a new sheriff in town. You're on your own.
- When Dan made the comment referring himself to the government newspapers got all over him.
- News papers get on people sometimes for speaking their minds and saying how they really feel about something.
4 Questions
- When a game is over and the team has won to some players stay out and look at the Field in amazement trying to comprehend their win?
- To some players believe in superstitions like they have to do the same thing before every game?
- Why do managers of the Red Sox act big and tuff sometimes?
- Do all players really have a cocky side where they are the best and no one can really compete with them?
3 Vocabulary
- acquisition: gaining procession
- relevance: pertinence to the matter at hand
- audacity: boldness or daring
2 literary
- The general manger says that the Red Sox are just like the government when you call the first time you never get through the first time.
- There were quotes from things that people have said that they used to make a point when they were saying something.
1 Overview
- This chapter was about Dan Duquette and his time with the Red Sox and how newspapers got all over him sometimes for what he said.
5 comments
- When the Red Sox won the 2004 World series people started to forget how long it took them to win a World Series.
- When they won the 2007 World Series people seen a change for the better.
- Everyone was excited that the Red Sox won the two World Series (championships) they didn't know weather to call it and accident or a reversed curse.
- One line in the chapter that i really liked was no matter how much the Red Sox's hate the Yankee's They wantd to be just like them.
- It told about some of the contracts that teamates had with the Red Sox's.
4 Questions
- When playing baseball is there a certain age that they are asked or have to retire?
- Why did Red Sox fans get on them so much for not winning a World Series for so long?
- Why were certain things that were written in the book italicized when other things were not?
- I still do not understant the big rivalry that the Red Sox's have with the New York Yankees?
3 Vocabulary
- Parity: equality as in amount
- Nostalgia: a wistful desire
- Extraordinaire: uncommon; remarkable
2 Literary
- There was a lot of looking back in this book to what happened early in the Red Sox's career ecspecialli looking back on the World Series.
- Some things throughout the chapter were italizied.
1 Overview
- This was mostly about the World Series and how the Red Sox's came back to make a win, winning two world series in 5 years.
5 Comments
- Mike Lowell had a baseball themed dinner with President Bush, The First Lady, six other players and Tito.
- During the off-season Mike Lowell re-signed with the Red Sox's
- Mike Lowell when re-signing thought that he could get a 3 year 30 million dollar deal.
- Mike Lowell's mothers name is Beatriz and she was a big help throughout all of Mike Lowell's life.
- In Mike Lowell's acknowledgements he had a lot of people to thank for helping him.
4 Questions
- Do the people on the team have any say in if they want to go to a certain team or not?
- Was it weird going and having dinner with the President and The First Lady?
- Does all the attention that they are getting after winning the World Series go to their head or do they know they are going to have to go right back out there again next year and do all this work again?
- Do the players always have to re-sign or could they just decide to stop playing the sport?
3 Vocabulary
- aback: used only i taken back surprised
- euphoria: feeling of well being
- embarked: to go aboard a ship; begin start
2 Literary
- This also had a lot of things that his family and other people had ever done for him.
- There was acknowledgements to who Mike Lowell had to thank through his life for what they had done for him.
1 Overview
- This was about the people that Mike Lowell wanted to thank people for, and about how he resigned to the Red Sox's after they had won the World Series and how he went to the White House.
5 Comments
- During a game with Baltimore Mike Lowell took a fast ball to the head but was fine and made it out with a bump on the head.
- After he got the bump in the head he made an imaging play to catch a ball and make and out.
- Mike Redmond was one of Mike Lowell's best friends in the game.
- It must be really hard to keep switching teams because you make good friends with someone and then you have to leave and not see them for awhile, or until your teams face each other.
- His journal entry for October 29, 2007 it only said unbelievable.
4 Questions
- If someone gets hit during a game by a pitch from a pitcher what happens to the pitcher?
- Why does everyone think that they should describe life as a roller coaster ride?
- Do they Red Sox's enjoy having Mike Lowell on the team and do they think that it was a good idea to take him and put him on the team?
- Was there ever a time between Mike Lowell and his wife that they thought that they were going to breakup.
3 Vocabulary
- mercilessly: showing no mercy
- incumbent: resting as a duty; holder of an office
- diminutive: tiny
2 Literary
- They showed some of a small conversations only about 2 lines on page 167.
- This was really him telling the story and things that had happened to him or that he had done in life.
1 Overview
- This was about the '03 season Mike Lowell spent with the Red Sox's and how they had won the World Series.
5 comments
- In November of '91 Bertica and Mike Lowell went on their first date.
- Mike Lowell seemed to be really good at giving advice because when his teammate Jon Lester got sick he gave him good advice to focus on himself and not worry about what people are doing around him.
- He is still writing in his journal but he isn't doing it as much as he would have liked to.
- Mike Lowell's grandmother passed away August 1, 1995 from lymphoma.
- After four months of being married in 1999 Mike Lowell found out he had cancer.
4 Questions
- Is it really hard for baseball players to have an at home life because they seem to be on the road or away so much.
- Is it really hard for players to find time for themselves never mind a family or friends but just for themselves?
- Was it really really hard for Mike Lowell's family to find out that he had cancer?
- If there are a lot of good players on the team and they all did extremely well that season how to they pick a MVP?
3 Vocabulary
- chemotherapy: use of drugs in treating disease
- catheter: tube put into the bladder
- subsequently: following
2 Literary
- Throughout the whole book Mike Lowell was putting in pages from his journal that he had been writing in.
- There were four pages full of pictures of Mike Lowell and his family.
1 Overview
- This told how Mike Lowell helped talk to his teammates when they found out bad news and also about when he found out that he had cancer.
5 Comments
- When he was 15 years old he was benched for most of the season so he switched schools.
- "If you don't have playing time, it's because you don't deserve the playing time" (pg. 101, Lowell) This was a good quote because it's true if you like something then you make time for it.
- Mike Lowell went to Gables high school after he begged his parents to let him go.
- His dad had to talk to the athletic director so that Mike Lowell could get on the baseball team at Gables.
- During his junior year he got to be on the varsity team.
4 Questions
- Why would people let people become part of a team if they were going to bench them for the whole season?
- Why do parents remove kids from schools and make them switch schools?
- Is playing sports in high school supposed to help you to become a pro when you get older?
- Did it make a big deal what college or high school he went to, to play baseball?
3 Vocabulary
- envision: imagine
- aspirations: ambitions
- increments: an increasing ; amount of this
2 Literary
- "With less than 150 pounds behind me,"
- This was a lot of information about Mike Lowell's younger years and where he went to school and played sports.
1 Overview
- This chapter or part of the book was about some of the schooling that Mike Lowell went through and how his family helped him through it.
5 Comments
- When he was 6 he used to play t-ball, and he was a short-stop.
- Since Mike Lowell was born his family knew he was going to be a baseball player.
- His Dad used to take him to the park to practice hitting and the one rule was that he had to swing at every ball that was thrown.
- For awhile he lost interest in the game but after a while his love for the game came back and he started to play the game again.
- Mike Lowell played for the New York Yankees.
4 Questions
- Why was Mike Lowell traded around to so many different teams?
- Why do in the game of baseball do they trade members of the team after they had been together for so long?
- Do most players get aggravated with the game and everyone making a big deal out of it so they are no longer able to play?
- How come all Dad's want their sons to became these major league baseball players?
3
Vocabulary- predestined: determined before hand
- improbable: unlikely
- fended: ward off
2 Literary
- During these pages they showed a lot of not quotes but like things people said.
- The book has kind of stopped going in chronological order and is now kind of jumping around in his life.
1 Overview
- This was about how his dad helped him while he was learning the game of baseball and how it was always said that he would grow up to be a baseball player, also it was how he had a time when he really did lose his interest in the game of baseball.
5 comments
- At one point in the game season Mike Lowell became very superstitious and what ever he did the day before and they one he would do it again.
- It told how in the first game in '07 Mike Lowell struck out.
- It was a lot about how Mike Lowell was a kid and was playing sports like mini flashbacks.
- When Mike Lowell and his wife go to New York his wife always wants to give the poor $20.
- It sounds like all the players have a good joking around with each other on the team.
4 Questions
- When switching teams does it make playing more complex?
- Do all players really go through a bad spell where they don't do very good in the game?
- Does being a Major league baseball player have a lot of stress added.
- Why was Mike Lowell so worried after he struck out in the first inning.
3 Vocabulary
- momentum: fore or speed of action
- adulation: to show excessive admiration
- incomprehensible: impossible to understand
2 Literary
- The book shows a lot of dialogue that has been said in the past between Mike Lowell and his wife.
- This book also explains things with very strong and good detail.
1 Overview
- The part of the book I just read was about how people do when they were hitting and how Mike Lowell did when he was hitting and how he felt about his job at bat and things like that.
5 comments
- It told how his grandfather escaped from Puerto Rico and they had to live with 15 people in a 3 bedroom one bathroom apartment.
- Mike Lowell met his wife in Miami.
- Mike Lowell says that during the ’07 spring training he kept thinking of something his family told him and that’s to always stay true to yourself and the goal you set for yourself.
- It was really hard for Dice-k and Okie when they first came to the Red Sox because they couldn’t speak very good English.
- Mike Lowell promised himself he would write in his journal one a month and he has a lot to say about his kids.
4 Questions
- Does it help Mike Lowell to think about his family before a big game or does it make it worse if it’s an away game?
- Do all players on any sport team have a saying or something to help them remember home or does it just make it harder for them?
- When did Mike Lowell get married and when were his kids born?
- Did it help Mike Lowell to be able to speak both English and Spanish while being on the team?
3 Vocabulary
- Extradited: to give up to another state, nation or authority
- Subsequently: occurring or coming later or after
- Circumvent: to go around or bypass
2 Literary
- So far this whole book has been written in chronological order.
- This book has also done a lot of flashbacks like telling what happened to his family before.
1 Overview
- This was mainly an introduction to how Mike Lowell’s family got here and how it was the same way for his wife’s family, also how when he came to the Red Sox’s how he grew to know them.
5 comments
- They call the hitting coach Ron " Papa Jack".
- Mike Lowell was on the Florida Marlins with Kevin Millar who came to the Red Sox's and filled Mike Lowell's head tales about how great it was to be on the Red Sox's and a professional baseball player in Boston.
- In 2005 Mike Lowell's performance and baseball skills started to go south.
- Donny helped Mike Lowell when his performance went down because he told him to pretend he was playing wiffle ball or little league because then he didn't care about where his hands and feet were now he was just a little bit to nervous.
- They called Terry Francona "Tito" and he really helped Mike Lowell with words of encouragement when he really needed it.
4 questions
- Why was this website becoming such a big deal with all the Red Sox and was telling so much about them?
- Why can players be really good but then when they get in the spotlight for the first time or change teams they just have a harder time?
- Why do all the players decide to give each other nicknames or cut their names down so that they are shorter.
- Why did Mike Lowell start to struggle a lot when he was really getting into his career he was starting to doubt himself.
3 vocabulary
- astray: out of the right way
- metamorphosis: a profound change in form one stage from another
- atrocities: the quality or state of being atrocious
2 literary
- "among a locker room full of characters from all corners of the globe" (pg. 36, Lowell) metaphor
- "when you go through what I did in '05," (pg.30, Lowell) He keeps going back to thinking about the '05 season and how terrible it was.
1 overview
- This was really about all the people that had helped Mike when he was going through this tough time and was worried about his hitting and some of these people were Donny, Terry Francona, and the hitting coach Ron.
5 comments
- Mike Lowell started playing baseball when he was eight years old.
- Mike Lowell got married to a woman named Bertica.
- The Red Sox's were forced to take Mike Lowell from the Florida Marlins when they wanted to get Josh Beckett.
- In the 2003 season Mike Lowell had 28 home runs in 98 games.
- He also has two kids a son, Anthony, and a daughter, Alexis.
4 questions
- What is Fibrous Dysplasia?
- Why when Josh Beckett was traded to the Red Sox were they forced to take Mike Lowell?
- Why did he decide to call his friend and old coach, Gary Denbo when his hitting in the game got bad?
- Why all of the sudden did his hitting get bad for a period of time?
3 vocabulary
- exemplified: to illustrate by example
- prototypical: original or model on which something is based on
- implementing: a tool used in doing work
2 literary
- "I stepped up to the plate against one of the most feared flamethrowers" (pg. 6, Lowell) metaphor
- "jumping up and down like we would at home plate after a walk-off home run." (pg. 13, Lowell) Simile
1 overview
- These first few sentences were about how Mike Lowell though that he had cancer, but it really turned out to be Fibrous Dysplasia, and how he and Josh Beckett were both switched from the Florida Marlins.
Deep Drive about Mike Lowell
