Dirk Hayhurst's Blog

Shots of temples, beaches, and a lot of beautiful people.

Day one in India, over. Travel time to get here was about 36 hours in total with flight, layovers, and standing in lines factored in. I’m still jet-lagged, but here is what I can tell you from my short time in country: First, in India, size does matter. I mean that in terms of car size, mind you. Our tour bus pulled out of the hotel, directly into a traffic stream, and no one in the on coming traffic stream seemed to care. Cars kept flowing around the bus until its surface area...

What do the Blue Jays need right now? A left fielder. What did they get? A broken down, soft-tossing left hander. Go Jays! With all do respect to former two time Cy Young winner Johan Santana, he ain’t what he used to be. However, he is what the Blue Jays would like him to be. Cheap, potentially useful, and full of old war stories to entertain the kids with. If you look back over the years, the Blue Jays have a real soft spot in their heart for players of great previous success because of...

I other news, Michael Saunders was in good spirits at the start of spring training. His calm, and generally quiet demeanor is a much needed balance to the lively, spark plug that is Jose Reyes, and upbeat, cheerleading styles of Russell Martin. He’s the quiet player’s role model, a trait he credits to Griffey Jr., and other veteran Mariners who spoke up only when needed. Given what we know of Saunders’ desire to prove himself here with the Jays, he looks to be an over-achie— and he’s...

I like Zaun. I honestly do. That doesn’t mean I don’t know what he is, or how he is, it just means that, all things being equal, I do respect what he’s done in the game and find him personable, honest, and—despite what anyone might think considering his comments on hazing—a caring guy. Sure, he’s rough edged, gritty, blunt, and matter-o-fact on air. He can also be that way in real life. My point being: what you see is what you get with Zaun. He comes off on air as a...

In a few days I’ll be off to India for my international MBA sanctioned business trip. I’ll tour some local and multinational businesses, including KPMG and Ford India. I’ll see the sights, meet the local government officials in charge of vetting international businesses and regulating local ones. And, of course, I’ll haggle in the market place, and wander in shoeless awe through majestic temples and palaces. I’m pretty excited for the experience. I only wish...

2015. I’m a little late for posts about new years resolutions, but I feel like that’s what this is. Maybe that’s what every post is when you take a long time to write posts—a post about how you resolve to write more posts. Grad school sucks the life out of you when it comes to writing for the sake of writing. That and I don’t want to write diary entries just to write diary entires, or some glorified thought collection journal about how I feel about feelings. Yet, I...

Hey everyone. I just wanted to let you know that my brother, Brak Hayhurst, has been sober for 9 years as of today, January 15, 2015     Many of you have read about him in The Bullpen Gospels or Out Of My League and write to ask how that is going. Well, here is your answer! He’s the family’s real champion, and if you’d like to congratulate him, you can post it below. I’ll make sure he sees it. I’m sure it will mean a lot.   Thank you!

People ask me, “why are you back in school instead of pursuing some kind of baseball related job? You don’t really want to be a business man when you could be around the game, do you?” They list off a litany of reasons for why I should be back in baseball, any part of baseball. Things like, you played in the Majors, or wrote books about baseball, or have been on national television. They say these things like having done them guarantees me a job someplace. Where, exactly, they don’t know,...

I’m bullish on the prospect of the Red Sox signing Justin Masterson, and  I think Justin Masterson should dig it as well. He’s going to get a lot of run support, the upgrades to infielding make Boston a nice match for a sinker-baller, and he’ll be reunited with John Farrell. For the right dollar amount, that’s not too shabby when you consider he won’t be expected to play staff ace but a middle of the rotation arm with a chance of being more. If the Sox get Lester to come back, too…...

  A little while back an individual who was about to hatch from the business world and flutter into the real world asked me about getting a job in the baseball world. He’d sent out all his resumes, and, after months of anxious perseverating over whether his childhood dream of working around the holy game of the base and ball would happen, he’d gotten a bite. OMG! What should I do? What should I say? What should I wear? He wrote me to ask. God only knows why. Of course, I was flattered,...