Narrative Essay On 'The Better One'

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The Better One

Jerry and Mike were playing out in the backyard talking about baseball and they started to talk about pro players and who will they will be and Jerry said he would be Nolan Arenado and that Mike would be Tim Tebow playing baseball.
Mike felt very offended that he said that and he decided to go inside and watch Sunday football. Jerry did not know why he was so mad at least he was saying he was somebody that is famous but Mike got offended that he called him a football player because he only likes to play baseball and he also got offended that he called him Tim tebow because he heard when Tim tebow tried out for baseball.
So after Mikes and Jerry´s sleepover he asked his mom to pick him and after that they did not talk
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Mike started to wonder if Jerry was even his best friend any more and he started to think it was best if him and Jerry stopped being friends so that is what they did for a long time and a couple weeks later Jerry calls up Mike to do a little baseball game but Mike tried to reject it but Jerry said he has been practicing and he thinks their is know way that he would bet able to score on his side of his team and Mike got mad that what use to be his friend say that but Mike knew even if he practice he would not be able to beat him because he knew that he was better than Jerry even when he was getting game balls. So he got his baseball bag and his lucky stuff monkey and headed off the fields. When he got to the fields and he sat down in his dugout and waited to play the game. Soon later Jerry arrived with the baseball team and was ready to play a baseball game. What annoyed Mike is that Jerry acted like he was the best baseball player there is and he just wanted to show Jerry up because of how much of a jerk he was being and when they were doing team picking Mike let Jerry pick the best people on the team because Mike knew he was the best person on the team and he could handle anyone. After the team picking they flipped a coin to see who is home and who is away. Mike

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