Articulate Giants farmhand: 'The dream was falling apart'

I'm not sure if I could be a pure sports journalist. First, I'm not sure if I'm a good enough writer to do it as a full-time job. And second, I think I will want to at least attempt a life outside of sports once my career is over (I'm actually taking the LSAT this Saturday, so you can tell I'm thinking more and more about life outside of baseball). There's a good possibility though that I will find myself coming back to sports, and baseball specifically, as it will be hard to get both feet out of this addicting water. Once it wraps itself around you, it's tough to walk away from.

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holy shit, that was amazing.

thanks for the link. rec’d.

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 24, 2009 1:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow I hope he doesn’t waste his time doing anything “journalism” related, if you can even call the media that these days. Seems like a bright kid and good story, and hopefully he does well on his LSAT’s and starts a successful career that does have a future…

by Missing Barry on Sep 24, 2009 1:16 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Damn

That is pretty heartbreaking. I really hope he has success outside of baseball.

Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.

by marcello on Sep 24, 2009 1:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

+1

I like to read his stuff. Dirk Hayhurst was also fun to read for BA.

Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Sep 24, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That was really well-written and sad. You don’t really think that much about what the organizational filler guys go through. I hope he can find something that works for him.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster

by jponry on Sep 24, 2009 1:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

It’s weird to think that there are so many more like him, than the ones that everyone follows and knows about. Blue-collar ballplayer. It’s refreshing, in a way.

"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.

by hairball on Sep 24, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Was just about to post this.

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Long ago they came west over the mountains, and I have rooted for them years uncounted; and together through many ages of this world we have fought the long defeat.

by shanghaijim on Sep 24, 2009 2:07 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Great article

I also liked his post about ptiching to situation, which emphasizes the disconnect between on-field staff and the front office. That’s something that needs to be changed in my opinion

Do you Wazzel?

by NeifiChicken on Sep 24, 2009 2:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Do you have a link for that, sounds interesting.

by Missing Barry on Sep 24, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like that Brosius has a plan for his future, seems like a lot of guys in baseball (those who’ve made it to the big leagues and those who haven’t) do not. They identify themselves solely as baseball players, and that’s got to be the hardest thing, to give it up and no longer fulfill the identity you’ve chosen for yourself

by Mrbasepaul on Sep 24, 2009 3:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

They identify themselves solely as baseball players, and that’s got to be the hardest thing, to give it up and no longer fulfill the identity you’ve chosen for yourself

Along with the fact that a lot of them have passed up educational opportunities for the chance to make it as a baseball player…

by Missing Barry on Sep 24, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Articulate Giants farmhand is articulate.

"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW

by bgunn on Sep 24, 2009 3:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

If you have yet to see the movie “Sugar” — it puts this Villalona thing, as well as players like Brosius who are “organizational” guys lives in perspective. It’s a ruthless world they reside in, and going back to the DR is never a good thing with all that money…

by zuma420 on Sep 24, 2009 6:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I like the SFGate reader comments

for once.

RIP | anVil | 9-19-2009 | dude had potential.

by i wish we were good on Sep 24, 2009 10:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

BA should hire him.

by Hobbes2d on Sep 24, 2009 10:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Great writer and, despite his status in the Giants org, a very solid pitcher. Think of the odds of getting to where he is from back in the Little league days – gotta be close to 500,000 to 1.

Wonder if law school is a route to becoming an agent?

by GiantChris on Sep 25, 2009 8:18 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Mr. Broshuis and I talked a little bit about his law school aspirations and he says he wants to do something in sports law, and/or work toward improving awareness and conditions for how minor leaguers truly live, constrained by limited funds and having to move around so often in their careers.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

GiantChris

You don’t happen to be the former moderator of the official MLB Giants fan forum, do you? That person had a very similar screen name.

by Bad Horse on Sep 25, 2009 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not me

Nope – just a real Giants fan from the Monterey area who lacked in imagination when creating his screen name a few weeks ago…

by GiantChris on Sep 26, 2009 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Being a professional baseball player

… must be a lot like being an actor, or a concert violinist, or writer, or architect. These are careers that a lot of people dream of doing, but require a huge investment of time and effort, and yet only a very small number of people can be famously successful. Those who just miss the top tend to live in obscurity. The people who try it are really betting a fair number of years of their lives on a rare outcome. The idealism, or optimism, or hope that carries these people is impressive.

Toughest of all must be to get so close to the top—AAA Fresno—to be in the top 0.002% instead of the top 0.001%, which is the difference between being organizational filler and years of making only a few thousand dollars, and being at the very least a journeyman relief pitcher, some modest fame, a comfortable lifestyle and a chance to live the dream.

Good luck, Mr. Broshuis. I hope (and am pretty sure) that you’ll be successful at whatever you choose to do next.

by Bad Horse on Sep 25, 2009 10:40 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That story made me wish he would have had more of a chance at Fresno. Sure, he was not even on the radar for the big leagues, but he moved me in his story.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

by giants9107 on Sep 26, 2009 12:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”

Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.

by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 27, 2009 7:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Jim Bouton....

http://gregsconnecticutdefenders.blogspot.com
adopted parent of Bond, Brock Bond...

by greg8370 on Sep 27, 2009 8:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

no matter what he chooses to do

i hope he never gives up writing.

ive been reading his stuff since he started, and its really good….good enough to be the makings of a book….good enough to be optioned for big or small screen treatment.

btw….the org used garrett this season

first, to get the sj giants to win the first half crown…and then to ct to win the division for the first time since they have had a relationship with the club.

the fact that the giants farm teams have the best record of all clubs is currently being trumpeted…and gb had alot to do with that.

however, it didnt stop the org from removing him from the rotation so that some kids from lower a could be watched during the championship….of course, ct lost.

by bacci40 on Oct 1, 2009 12:43 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs