Ode to the Yankees

The Yankees are the team to beat,

Better ball players you will never meet.

With their bats and hats,

They are super phat,

And you’ll have to grin,

When you see how many games they win.

The Red Sox will go crying to their mothers

When the Yankees come out and win another.

When you hear the crack of the bat,

Your heads will all snap back.

Everyone will be on their feet

to see the Yankees repeat.

OLD MAN AND THE SEA

People need to make decisions every day. Some decisions are more important than others. Your decisions could be as minor as what you are going to order at a restaurant or as important as weather or not you are going to go running through a field wet and wearing metal armor during a thunder storm. I don’t think that what you order will affect you that much. But running through the field would be a very serious decision. Maybe you have a really good reason for it and maybe nothing bad will happen, but that’s the whole point of making decisions.

In the old man and the sea, the old man had to make lots of important decisions. One of the most important decisions is weather or not to take the boy with him. Some good things that could happen would be that the boy could keep the old man company and that the boy could help catch fish. Some bad things would be that the boy’s parents get mad because they told him not to go fishing with the old man and the boy could get hurt. In the end the old man chose not to bring the boy."No the old man said, your with a lucky boat. stay with them.'' p10.Maybe that was the right decision and maybe it wasn’t.

Another decision that the old man made was to keep going after the fish even when it went far out to sea. Now this decision was probably the wrong one since he lost most of his equipment, had the fish get eaten by sharks, and he hurt himself pretty bad. Now if he didn’t follow the fish so far he probably would have been better off. But who knows he might have hit some strong storm and have his ship sink if he went back sooner. ''Fsh that you are. I am sorry that i went too far out."p115. But maybe if he turned back he would have caught a bigger fish and be able to bring it back. You never can tell how a decision will work out.

Another decision that the old man made was hoe much to prepare for the trip. The old man didn’t bring any food. Only brought a bit of water and only had the necessary gear needed to catch a fish. There are so many things that he could have brought to make the trip easier."I wish I had some salt."p59. If he had a battleship he would have caught that fish in two seconds. (Although I doubt that the old man could get his hands on a battleship.) But even if he just had an extra harpoon or a radio his trip would of gone much smoother. "It would be wonderful to do this with a radio.p48. The radio would help him pass the long time on the boat, and the extra harpoon would have enabled him to fight off the sharks easier.

The truth is that decisions need to be made all the time. Some decisions are simpler then others like jumping off a cliff or not. And some decisions are more important than others. In the old man in the sea the old man had to make tons of decisions. And if he decided something differently then the whole book would have changed completely. But whatever floats your boat I guess.

THE CREEPER

There once was a super hero named Bobby . He is not really much of a super hero, but he thinks he is. Everyone in his town all just play along, it is either because they don’t want to crush his dreams or that they just have the common sense not to talk to him.

During the day he keeps up the genius charade of a socially awkward kid. While at night he walks all around the town by himself looking around for criminals. Blissfully unaware that he isn’t going to find any crime in South Hadley. And elated by the misconception that he would be able to stop crime if he would find it. He calls himself The Creeper because he creeps around town looking for bad guys. But all the people in town call him that for a completely different reason. Yes he is a pretty creepy guy.

At school Bobby is a pretty good student except for that time when he went all around the school looking for a sidekick. As you might have guessed no body wanted the job. Eventually his psychiatrist took the job just so that they could get back to their session. Unfortunately Bobby started calling him every night asking him to fight crime with him. This was followed shortly after by a restraining order and Bobby being forced to find a new sidekick and a new psychiatrist.

The psychiatrists’ name was Rico Melhorn. And it turns out that the reason that he got the restraining order was because he was nefarious. He was also not happy about having a new super hero in town that might thwart his evil deeds. So Rico hatched a plan to get rid of Bobby.

Rico posed as a street vendor, he tricked bobby into buying his merchandise for a million dollars. (Believe it or not but this was not a very hard task.) Unfortunately Bobby didn’t have a million dollars. It was then that Bobby realized that he would not be able to make any money as a super hero. So he decided to become a super villain. This made Rico even madder, having an enemy is bad but having a rival just plain sucks. Rico decided that there wasn’t enough room on the dark side for both of them so he began making a new plan, and this one was meant to make Bobby a hero again.

So he went back to his old disguise of the psychiatrist. He tried to provoke Bobby into going back to being a super hero; as it turns out Bobby didn’t really like being a super villian either, but he thought that he needed to stay a super villain in order to make enough money to pay back the street vendor. Rico was starting to loathe Bobby moe and more now.

Nothing was going right for Rico; he only had one last hope. He called up his cousin Barack Obama and asked him to give a million dollars to Bobby. So good old Barack just raised some taxes and put the country into an even deeper debt. But at least he helped out his cousin. You should have seen Bobby’s face when the president came up to him and told him that he would give him a million dollars just to continue fighting crime.

While Bobby was going back to the street vendor, he realized the resemblance to him and Bobby’s old psychiatrist. But as you might imagine good old Bobby just assumed that they were identical twins.

So now Rico had finally stopped the competition. But he still had to think of some way to stop Bobby from foiling all of his evil plans. So he hired his cousin barrack as an evil sidekick. He thought that he would be unstoppable with the president of the United States by his side. But Bobby hired a sidekick of his own; it was Oscar de la Hoya. Who was the greatest boxer of all time back in at the apex of his career.

Obama first tried to deport Bobby, but Oscar, who is a glutton for fighting just beat up all of the people that he sent to make a wanton abduction of Bobby. They then tried to send in a bunch of soldiers to take him out, but Oscar beat them up as soon as they converged on their super hero hideout. They even sent in the incredible hulk, but I guess nobody is able to take on the golden boy.

Eventually the truculent Rico realized that him and Bobby were at an impasse, and gave up on trying to take him on Bobby. He soon retired from villainy; shortly after that he was alienated from Obama. Rico wrote a very successful book called the noun rule. Barrack Obama continued on with his presidency. But if you ever see any of the laws he is trying to pass I guess you could say that he is still a super villain. Bobby's ambitions to be a super hero were depleted soon after; Him and Oscar became famous with their eccentric skill in tag team fighting. Their strategy mostly involved Bobby running in circles then tagging Oscar once the opponents got really dizzy and confounded.

In the end Bobby never realized how good of a super hero he was. He never even knew that he had an enemy. But Rico will definitely never forget all the trouble that Bobby Loughrey gave him.