Blog post #2

The last thing I remember before worrying about the pandemic event is my last baseball game. This last game was the most important game of the year. It was the game that would qualify us to be in the playoffs. Which caused everyone to panic. Panic to the point where everything started to go wrong. People were leaving their equipment at the school, and people were throwing up in the back of the bus. When we got to the game we started off winning but things went downhill as the game progressed.  That loss caused us to lose all hope in ourselves. We had worked so hard to get where we were now, just to lose before the biggest moments of our lives. Everyone on the field that day went through an emotional breakdown. Looking around, I saw tears and snot coming down from my teammates. My coach threw down his hat and clipboard forcefully with anger. It’s like I could have seen the smoke fuming from his ears like it was a cartoon. I looked at the other dugout, heard laughter, and saw smiles across their faces. Seeing that made me so angry and frustrated. Knowing that everything rode on that game, and we were not able to pull through, was the worst feeling. Since I was the only one on my team that was not on an emotional roller coaster, I knew I had to say something. “Aye, Aye I do not understand what y’all crying for. What is that going to do for us? We did not work this hard to give up. Obstacles are going to come whether you want them to or not, it all depends on how we deal with them. On this team we do not give up, we are going overcome this setback and work even harder,” I said passionately. “What we are going to do!!,” I yelled. “WORK HARDER,” they screamed back. I looked around to see if everyone was ok and all eyes were on me. “Get up! All hands in!” Everyone got up slowly. “On my count, hard work, 1 2 3.” “HARD WORK,” screamed my teammates. I looked at my coach and I could see the smoke from his ears fade away. He gave me a nod and looked away. I packed my things up and headed to the car that my whole family was sitting in. The whole ride was quiet. I roll down the window just to break the silence. I stare up into the blue cloudy sky and thought “Next year will be the best baseball season the school has ever seen.” I packed my things up and headed to the car that my whole family was sitting in. The whole ride was quiet. I roll down the window just to break the silence. I go on my phone to go to Instagram and the first thing I see is the Corona Virus is spreading. My teachers and friends always told me that it was going to spread and it was going to get bad, but I never really listened. Schools were closing and some of the businesses that I go to were closing down.