Abraham Lincoln once said "the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time". This means that everyday there is something good about it, weather you don't know whats going to happen. This quote is true because if we know what was going to happen in the future that wouldn't be no fun,it would be boring because you would know whats coming to you. This can be clearly seen in the book "Payback Time" by Carl Deuker, where it says "The world is a crazy place. If somebody had told me six months earlier that a professional newspaper reporter would call something I wrote great, I'd have sworn that it would be the happiest moment of my life. Now it had happened, and all I felt was depressed."As time goes by Mitch is hoping to prove McNulty that he can be linebacker,and that soon he'll be on the team and out on the field like the rest of the guys.

This book is about a guy named Mitch who is the news reporter for his High School. He wants to be line backer for the football team but the coach thinks hes not good enough to fit the team, but he is going to prove his coach wrong.