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... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Jan 27, 2017 | baseball, MILB, MILB Survival Tips, MLB
**Unedited Proof**“I need some ice.” I said, tapping myself in the arm and leaving The Panther to search for it. When I arrived at the locker room, an athletic assistant serving the team as part of a college sports internship said that we could get it for me. What he... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | May 31, 2016 | baseball
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...