Chapter 309 1997 ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 5 (1/2)

After Jake hitting the 90mph hitting cage without missing a beat Brett told Aaron and Zack to try, the two didn't want to be ashamed of the 70mph hitting cage.

But Brett insisted and everyone realized he was doing it on purpose, Zack knew well what his brother was like and gave up and went to try to counter, he just regretted trying to show off before, Zack still managed to hit 5 hits from 20 attempts, but if embarrassed anyway.

After Zack went Aaron also had to go and try to hit the 90mph batting cage, he hit 7 out of 20 attempts and came out a little less embarrassed, yet everyone had fun thanks to Brett.

Even though Zack spoke so badly of Brett he was one of the most fun and was like a kid, after going to the batting cage they went to a mall in Jake's car to watch a movie.

They went to see the movie Jerry Maguire in which Jake appeared again to Brett who did not watch being able to watch, seeing for the second time they could enjoy more of the movie and even laughed at the scenes where Jake appeared.

To their surprise after the movie, two girls who appeared to be high school age turned up to ask Jake for an autograph, he was well known to people after appearing so often on television and in commercials.

Also, these girls had just seen Jake appear in the movie and with him being so tall it was hard for them not to recognize him, then his friends joked that Jake was so famous that he had to wear glasses.

It had been a few months since Jake had been shopping, so he went to the music store and bought several new Kate CDs and even gave her friends a gift, his friends knew her too because now Kate was known all over the country, even more, famous than Jake.

After they still stopped at a diner in the mall to eat and talk some more time, it was hard for them to have some free time to hang out with friends to talk to so they had to enjoy it.

”So we find out today what Jake Smith's future is in sports, he's going to be a great baseball player and win the world series.”

”True, with that batting talent you can win any game you want Jake.”

”I thought he would play American football like me, Jake already played in high school so it's more possible than baseball.”

”Don't forget that there is still football, we have to go to some field and see Jake kicking a ball to see Hahaha.”

”You say that because you're jealous, I can play a lot of sports and you none, Hahaha.”

”Oh so Jake knows how to be arrogant too, then we'll see how you fare in boxing.”

Everyone joked because they knew Jake's talent was so great, only Brett didn't joke much because he didn't have much intimacy with Jake, Jake was happy to see that everyone was joking and no one was jealous.

Of course, it wasn't because he could easily hit a fastball thrown by a machine that he would be a baseball genius, in fact of all sports Jake was least interested in baseball.

That's because he always thought baseball was the sport where it was hardest to become a star and to be the team's highlight, there are over 160 games in a season and each team has several hitters who can do the same for the team that is making home runs.

Defensively the player can only cover a small part of the field, pitchers can do more than others and have highlights, but pitchers are most likely to get hurt in games and can become heroes or villains with a single pitch.

So just having a lot of talent one could think of standing out in baseball and would have to have a good mindset to withstand the criticism that would surely come, then came American football which also has a lot of risk for players to get hurt and few games in a season.

And there was basketball, which was the sport that Jake had heard from his past life that he had the talent of many people, it's a sport Jake loved and even though he has over 80 games a season there is no risk of injury if he is not very unlucky.

That's why since his last life Jake thought that if he had a sport he wanted to play it was basketball and he wanted to win various awards and NBA rings, while athletics Jake didn't think it was possible and just enjoyed running.