by Dirk Hayhurst | Mar 29, 2012 | baseball, MILB, MILB Survival Tips
So I’m not playing ball right now, and I’m fine with that. I don’t miss it. Maybe I will later when the scent of fresh cut grass and hot dogs and Latin player pre game cologne catches my nose again, but I doubt it. Don’t ask me what’s next. What I do know, I can’t... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Mar 4, 2012 | baseball, MILB Survival Tips
While training with the Kent State University baseball team the other day, I struck up a conversation with one of the players about what it’s like to play in the professional ranks. These kinds of conversations are interesting because the candor of the player always... ![Out Of My League, Chapter 35]()
by Dirk Hayhurst | Jan 27, 2012 | baseball, Books, MILB, MILB Survival Tips
Chapter Thirty-five On Monday, after losing a day game with the Bees, we packed up and hopped a flight to Colorado Springs, home of the Rockies’ Triple A team, the Sky Sox. Sky Sox Stadium is the highest-altitude park in baseball, even higher than the infamous Mile... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Jan 23, 2012 | baseball, MILB, MILB Survival Tips
I’m going to say this as plainly as I can: stop doing stupid shit just because everyone else on the team is doing it. It’s not a good reason to do something in any other walk of life so don’t be fooled into thinking it’s a good reason now. Being on a team is a... 
by Dirk Hayhurst | Jan 22, 2012 | baseball, MILB, MILB Survival Tips
With spring training right around the corner I’d like to take a moment to remind all those players attending minor league camp of the resolutions they swore they’d uphold, but have subsequently forgotten. I’m not talking about stuff like working out harder, or running... by Dirk Hayhurst | Nov 30, 2011 | baseball, General, MILB Survival Tips
Bobby Valentine. Really? That’s the best the Red Sox could come up with? What is it with pulling managers form the recognizable masses that compose analysts? We can’t get anyone that is hungry in the lower levels up to manage a flagship franchise like the Sox. It has...