Dirk Hayhurst's Blog
Words and thoughts still trying to make it to the big leagues...K&S – Hair Twirling Nightmare
Kicking and Screaming: Tales from my losing battle with Fatherhood. K&S Pt 3 I haven’t been completely honest with you. No, not about not wanting kids. That I’ve been completely honest with you about. I don’t want kids with the same intensity that a...
The Bright and Terrifying Future
Saturday night. I’m sucking down a beer, my first and only of the evening, a treat for surviving another Saturday in the EMBA grinder. I tweeted about class, live in class. First time I’ve done that since starting the program. I know, I know, what a waste of my...
Pace of Game… Or Lack Thereof
The following is form an article I wrote for Bleacher Report: Fact: Baseball players are natural whiners. I know this, of course, because I'm a whiner myself, and baseball was a perfect fit for me. Seriously, think about how much whining we do in the modern game and...
Kicking and Screaming – Mother Munchkin
Kicking and Screaming: My losing batter with Fatherhood. Pt 2. Mother Munchkin. When Mother Munchkin showed up to drop the child off with us, she did so in a frazzled furry. She was late for work, which she moaned about the need to keep doing now that...
Kicking and Screaming
Kicking and Screaming: Losing the battle with Fatherhood. What I’m about to tell you involves hormones and women and life goals and parents and sex and money and assholes, and if you keep reading you’re probably going to be offended. If you’re one of those...
The Anybody Betters
Poor Clayton Kershaw. Seriously, I feel for the guy. I feel for all truly great players that become victims to the what have you done for me lately part of baseball. Yesterday, on short rest, Kershaw took on a team that, for the most part, has not been very compliant...
50 Shades Of Emerald
Editor's note: This story contains graphic language. Manhood. It's a competition. Has been since the first grunting, snorting, finger-sniffing Neanderthal scratched out whatever he felt defined it on the wall of his cave. Battle, power, money, looks -- they all have...
In Not Of.
Dear Brother Dirk, I just finished reading Out of My League over the course of the last 3 days, and I came away broken-hearted. I purchased the book as a summer reading gift for my son, a college athlete, hoping to encourage him in his Christian walk. He's at a...
Buehrle’s Timely 2014 & the Future of Baseball.
This piece was written for Sports On Earth. Ten wins against one loss with a 2.10 ERA is a hell of a way to start a season. If it was Justin Verlander, Jose Fernandez, Matt Harvey or Clayton Kershaw attached to those numbers, well, I'd be more than happy to dub the...
Jack of All
People just don't do one thing anymore, have you noticed that? The days of working at one place until the powers that be hand you a gold watch and send you into the fog are gone. At least that's the way it feels. In my short 33 years I've been an instructor, burger...
Observations on Chris Archer
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 dugout and...
Sour Grapes
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 thing" (since leaving...