by Dirk Hayhurst | Apr 3, 2019 | MILB, MILB Survival Tips, MLB, Uncategorized
When you go to your first career-level job interview after baseball, you’ll most likely get asked this question:“What’s your passion.”You could say baseball. You wouldn’t be lying.But, look, unless this is a baseball related job, the interviewer will most likely... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Mar 27, 2019 | baseball, MILB, MILB Survival Tips, MLB
Right now, a lot is changing for you. That driving, all-consuming force that propelled you is gone. The sun is gone. The seasons don’t change. You have no sense of direction. Where are you? What are you? Your first instinct will be a fear reaction. Flight. Run to... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Mar 24, 2019 | baseball, MILB, MILB Survival Tips, MLB
The day of the interview, you may feel a slight sting. That’s just pride, fucking with you. Fuck pride. It only hurts. It never helps. You interview through that shit. Because a year from now, when you’re kicking yourself in a cubicle, you’re going to say to yourself,... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Mar 21, 2019 | baseball, MILB, MLB
If you want to play at the Major League level, you’ll need to start specializing early.We’ll be generous and say 10 years old is when you started.At 10 you realized you could throw thunderbolts. Pills. Ched. Heat. Smoke. Fuzz. Gas.You could throw hard.Ridiculous when... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Mar 17, 2019 | baseball
No player, in all my time in baseball, has ever said to me that they play because they simply can’t wait to get fat off their sweet minor league paychecks, and coast.When I started writing about the minor leagues so many years ago, I was often told—among other...