- 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.
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