Mock's Trial: Success Or Failure?

Chances are high that more people have been faced by a trial, not the kind in court, but the kind where they are competing to show prowess in something. If they have succeeded in the trial they have felt accomplished or if you failed you just stay angry for a little bit at first and then you just think what you could of done or done better. Better yet, you failed even though you (thought) you did everything perfect or at least 95% right and you’re just waiting on the verdict like “man, I’ve got this one in the history books 100% and there’s no way I could've failed.” so you go get a tattoo of your accomplishment before you even know the result, like one of those idiots on Twitter, and then you look dumb. Well of course, this happened to me (except for the tattoo part). …show more content…
I went through Tee-ball, to coach pitch, to modified kid pitch, and then finally to kid pitch. Fast forward to 9th grade and eligibility to play high school baseball is here and it was a whole semester trial of showing the coaches my skills. Skip ahead to late November, early December and the whole “do you think you did enough” chat starts going around and at this point I still think “I’ve got this 110%, no doubt in my mind.” I’m thinking about all the notable things I did and I could remember a lot of good things I did, and not absolutely terribly bad things I did, Although, I’m sure I had the occasional error every once in awhile. Cuts would be made in a few weeks and I was not prepared for what would be said to