Dirk Hayhurst's Blog
Words and thoughts still trying to make it to the big leagues...Adoption Quest, 5. Horrible Little Checkboxes.
"We're trying." I shudder to think how many conversations that phrase hijacked over the last few years. We're trying: Two words that trumpet a baby is on the way. Two hopeful words that I never really understood when I first let them fly, but now know like a scar on...
Adoption Quest, 4. The Unforgivable.
Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Pounding in the back of my head. Tick-tock, Dirk. Tick-tock. Kids, Dirk. Tick tock Dirk. Tick-tock. Kids. Kids, Dirk, kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. When Bonnie and I started trying, everything started being...
Adoption Quest, 3. No Diving In The Gene Pool
When I was in high school, I dated a sweet, shy, super smart redheaded girl for the bulk of my time there. I took her to two proms, gave her bales of flowers, and supplied her with enough chocolate to jumpstart diabetes. I thought I was going to marry her. In...
Adoption Quest, 2. Choosing Adoption.
I waited 28 years to have sex. 28 frustrating years. And ereey weren't easy years, just so you know. I didn't hang with only monks or go through life without knowing what woman was. It was the standard stuff, all those years of typical teenage hormones where...
Adoption Quest, 1. Going For It
Bonnie and I are adopting. We don't have a baby lined up. We're not even on a waiting list yet. We are, however, several home visits and thousands of dollars into the process, and I want to tell you right now, honest and unashamed, that so far I frigging hate the...
Height Doesn’t Measure Heart, But it Does Measure…
Marcus Stroman isn't very tall. That's a fact. Marcus Stroman doesn't let his lack of height impede his competitive desire. Also a fact. Marcus Stroman can throw sinkers just as good as any tall guy in the game... False. Height doesn't measure heart, but it can...
In Defense of Matt Harvey
Matt Harvey doesn't get a lot of sympathies these days. Can't say I don't understand why. If you want to be the self-proclaimed superhero of a town like New York, you're essentially setting the bar so high it requires perfection to reach, and Harvey's 2016 season has...
A True Patriot
I now work as the Director of Media Relations at a company called Patriot Software. We do payroll and accounting in the cloud. We focus on helping small business owners, and we provide stellar service for a very inexpensive price…………. Yeah, I know… It’s the not...
Choke Slamming Papelbon, Harper, and the System.
In baseball, nothing says your season is over like a closer strangling his MVP teammate, mid-game, on national television. There are other ways to signal irrelevance, of course, but Jonathan Papelbon taking Bryce Harper by his throat and slamming him into the concrete...
Estrada and My SportsCentre TSN Debut
Is Marco Estrada tiring out? Nope. For the record, I said nope before he rambled out to the mound in Atlanta and shut down the Atlanta Braves for 8 strong innings. There are three big things one looks for when someone is supposedly tiring out. The first is Mechanical....
7 Things That Keep Marcus Stroman’s Return in Perspective
I’m a contrarian, as such, I tend to look at where the popular opinion—any popular opinion— is taking a narrative and say, yeah, but. Thus, despite all the feel-good vibes flowing from the gushing geyser that is the Marcus Stroman's Return story, I need to do a...
Stroman VS. Buehrle & Tulo VS. Martin
(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette) Here are six things Jays fans should be coming to terms with before the Jays head to New York. 1) The Jays don’t need Marcus Stroman to win. They haven’t needed him all season and they don’t need him to stay...