Far From Home

A song that really means a lot to a certain Milwaukee Brewers player as it is his "walk-up" or "at-bat" music, Johnathan Lucroy the Brewers catcher has had this song as his walk-up music all season as a tribute to those fighting for our country in the Middle East. Written in 2009 by a rock group Five Finger Death Punch, Far From Home "is sort of a ballad" it definiely follows that definiton as it has come to be a tribute to those fighting for our country overseas. Since the song has been recently written it fits the tune of our counrty strving for a real reason as the song suggests that people don't realize the losses that happen and how much tumoil that a family goes through. Overall it has a constant theme that many can relate to.

Presidents

Well my inital thoughts of all of the crap spouted by these Ivy league grads was, could this be any more vague? It truely is very boring to fatham that all these men do is try to convince the masses that they made the correct decision in choosing them to run our country for the next four years. The most astonishing thing is that some acctually show remorse in their second term like Clinton and "W." where something had happend rather serious during their first presidency and by their dumb luck some people really enjoyed their presidency and felt that by boasting up the country in their campaign that they would be getting votes and that is exactly what happend. William J. Clinton had nothing to do with the economy but it was turned around during his years. George Bush tried to join his country together by stating that 9/11 was a time for togetherness and joining one another to be a strong country and is what has been a complete falasy for our country.

Moneyball

My Non-Fiction choice was the book Moneyball written by Michael Lewis. Moneyball is a biography of Oakland Athletics' G.M. Billy Beane. Beane grew up in Southern California under the impression that he would definitely be going to play professional baseball considering that he had two great chances to enrich his baseball career, no question that he was a first round talent in the upcoming MLB amateur draft, but he wasn't sold as his other option was for him to go to Stanford University on a joint scholarship where he would be playing football as well as baseball. The most intriguing part of the book was when Billy realized that after spending about ten years in the big leagues he went into Sandy Alderson's office (Oakland A's G.M.) and requested to become an advanced scout in the Oakland system. What Beane did really resonates with me, though I am not saying that I am near as good as he was but I feel the way that he did right now. I like to play baseball somewhat but I know that my dream job would be being able to take over a team and be the General Manager of any team and after reading Moneyball I really can relate with Billy Beane and before reading I wasn't a huge fan of Billy Beane, but what he has done on one of the smallest payrolls in Major League Baseball.