Dirk Hayhurst's Blog
Words and thoughts still trying to make it to the big leagues...Post Release Auction Party.
Well, the best way to make use of bad news is by doing something good with it. Now that I'm done for this season, it's time to use my old gear for a new cause. Below you'll see some of the items I will have up for my seasonal charity auction in the coming days, with...
Getting Released
First, a deep and profound thank you to all the people who took the time to wish me good luck and stay strong via email, tweet, or blog comment. Things like that make me feel like my primary goal of somehow, someway becoming more than just another uniform occupant...
For The LIke of The Game
A couple of days ago, I was talking to a front office guy with the Bulls about how I got propositioned to write an article about life on the famous Durham Bulls baseball club. I said that I wanted to write about what minor league life is really like (a bad...
Durham Can’t Drive
The people of Durham can’t drive. Well, most of them can’t. Well, maybe it’s just the ones on the road when I am because it’s pretty frick’n uncanny how every time I drive here I wish more and more that my CRV was less a budget conscious import and more like something...
The Clubby Starter Kit
Here you'll find all the stuff you need to start your first club house food catering business: Cheeseballs— an absolute must, the bigger the barrel, the better— animal crackers, pretzel rods, Twizzlers, candy, and, of course, the staple of any minor league diet;...
Garfoose’s First Photoblog
I've been wanting to write on this here blog more often, but it's not always convient to sit down and write full length articles about the crazy stuff that goes on in my head. Beyond that, some of the stuff that goes on in there can't be properly conveyed in word...
Getting Stamped
I didn’t know what to expect upon my entrance in the professional baseball ranks. To that point, all I had to go on were the exaggerated folk tales spread by my college teammates who had a buddy with a buddy who was playing in some minor league dump while acting like...
Showing Your Teeth
Hanz was pissed, and he should have been. It’s not every day the field coordinator tells you that, yes, your suspicions are correct, he’s racist and the reason Hanz is going back to rookie ball while a certain inexperienced, less talented Latin player is heading up to...
Work and Worry
I can still see myself in that hotel room in Birmingham, in pain from stuff I’m not supposed to be feeling pain from, wondering if I’ll sleep tonight or just lie there wanting to go to sleep but not able to like I have the last 5 nights before it. That’s when the want...
Shouting Into the Fog
Ever get tired of it? The social media shuffle, that is. The constant jockeying to be “relevant”; to say something snarky that people will care about; to keep coming up with stuff people want to read, see, like, plus, star, or re-tweet? I get tired of it. So tired. So...
The Loss of Objectivity
I have no idea what’s going on with the national debt. I know we’re in debt, and loads of it, but I don’t know what we’re actually doing about it other than I know we’re doing something. Words about the debt and its impending something seem to pour out of my...
Price and His Wonderful Fastball
Here is something you will hear pitching coaches say rather often in my business: "You pitch with your fastball." Most fans seem to think a pitcher is made by one choice pitch or another, but really, they are all made by how well they use their fastball, or variations...