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King Kaufman of Salon.com interviews San Diego Padres farmhand Nick Dirk Hayhurst (Portland), who pens (keyboards?) a column for Baseball America called "Non-Prospect Diaries."
You call your column Non Prospect Diary. That was your idea?
It was my idea.
That's obviously just self-deprecating humor, but why did you decide that?
If you read Baseball America -- and this is not a knock on Baseball America -- but if you read Baseball America and you read most of your media about sports, you'll find that it caters mainly toward the next big thing. The up-and-coming superstar. Who's going to be the next guy in the Yankees rotation? Is Joba Chamberlain really going to be the man? They spent a whole bunch of money on this dude and he's going to be the next Satchel Paige, or whatever it is.
The big prophesy. It's such a prophesy-based business. Especially if you've played for a while, you really feel like, "Man, do these guys really know this or are they just rubbing the crystal ball and making predictions on stats?" So there's --
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