by Dirk Hayhurst | Jun 13, 2011 | baseball, General, MILB Survival Tips
There is swearing in professional baseball, not to mention fighting, drinking, drugs, cheating, affairs, pornography, gambling, abuse, lying, stealing and just about everything else that would make your mother weep if she found out you were doing it. Naked. I wont... by Dirk Hayhurst | Jun 7, 2011 | baseball, General, MILB Survival Tips
The GM Game. You sit idly in the bullpen with nothing to do. You’re tired of hustling the locals with quarter toss games. Verbal sparring with drunks has lost its fun. Even the thrill of scouring the stands for hot chicks via your handy-dandy bullpen binoculars is... by Dirk Hayhurst | Jun 5, 2011 | baseball, MILB Survival Tips
When you pitch great it’s easy to walk into the weight room and knock out your postgame maintenance. Heck, sometimes you come into that weight room charged up and raring to do twice as much. You feel like superman, riding out the adrenaline of the game, marinating in... by Dirk Hayhurst | Jun 3, 2011 | baseball, MILB Survival Tips
I’m going to give you three scenarios that all have something in common. Can you figure out what? Scenario 1: Locker rooms are loud, obnoxious places full of multiple conversations in multiple languages, each trying to be heard at the other’s expense. Flourishing card... by Dirk Hayhurst | May 25, 2011 | baseball, General, MILB Survival Tips
My lovely wife, and camera woman, came to visit me this past week while I weathered my sentence in extended spring training. Extended, as we in the biz call it, is not exactly the most fun place in the baseball world. For starters, it’s the bottom rung of the... by Dirk Hayhurst | May 16, 2011 | baseball, MILB Survival Tips
We’ve all been there: the sky is gray and lumpy, rain is coming down in buckets, the countryside is speckled with standing puddles. It’s been non-stop precipitation all day, and if you were a betting man you’d put your chips on a weather assisted off day. As you watch...