by Dirk Hayhurst | Aug 10, 2015 | baseball, Blue Jays, Coaching/Parenting, MLB
Ever wonder what the difference, psychologically speaking, is between a team that is winning and a team that is losing? Simply put, it’s belief. It used to be that I didn’t like that answer. Belief, meh, it feels like you’re saying if we join hands and chant... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Dec 7, 2014 | baseball, MILB, MLB
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... by Dirk Hayhurst | Dec 2, 2014 | baseball, Blue Jays, MLB
Brian Kenny had me as a guest on his MLB radio show today. It’s always a treat to join Brian, who is, for my money, one of the smartest men in baseball. Seriously, he’s so smart that I get a little intimidated coming on his show, so I can only imagine how Harold... by Dirk Hayhurst | Apr 2, 2014 | baseball
25 million dollars with a chance for 40+ if everything goes his way? Good for Chris Archer. Good for all of us, too. Of course that’s easy for me to say, I know the guy. I played with him in Triple A for part of a season. I sat next to him in the Bull’s... by Dirk Hayhurst | Apr 1, 2014 | baseball, Blue Jays, MLB
Yesterday I got called out by one of my former coworkers at Rogers for being/having “sour grapes” because I spent most of opening day being snarky about the Toronto Blue Jays’ loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. This coworker hypothesized that my “new...