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Farewell to Zach Hayes

September 5th, 2008 by Evan Brunell
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On September 19th, 2005, a new voice entered Fire Brand, and promptly mentioned to us that “I love this time of year, when every game is a must win and every loss means flipping over the coffee table and pouring boiling water down your throat. Good times.”
Zach wrote 290 articles (excluding game threads) during his time here. He was, in my opinion, one of the best baseball writers I have seen. He is excellent at writing prose and had an incredible sense of humor as well, as evidenced by his parody of popular sports journalism figures on the potential trading of Manny Ramirez.
Zach recently had to step down as he is starting his senior year in high school and between that, his job and helping Barack Obama’s campaign (politics is his other passion), he wasn’t able to devote the full measure of time to Fire Brand that he felt Fire Brand needed. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that Zach, you’ll be missed. Come back soon.

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  • Shane says:
    September 5, 2008 at 6:01 PM

    I’m sad to see you go Zach, you are a great writer. Good luck with the future.
    Am I the only one that had no clue Zach was in High School?

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  • Sean O says:
    September 5, 2008 at 7:43 PM

    Nice having you around, Zach. Good luck.

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  • Ric says:
    September 5, 2008 at 8:44 PM

    when i was Zachs age I was asking homeless men to buy beer for me watching cheech and chong movies. kudos to you my friend.

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  • Gerry says:
    September 6, 2008 at 12:04 AM

    High School??????? Where did you get that level of maturity. Zach, I spent nearly 20 years in publishing and you would be a star in that field. Keep up he writing. Great job. Thanks for working to prevent 4-more years of war, poverty and environmental rape. Go Zach, Go Obama.

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  • PW says:
    September 6, 2008 at 5:59 AM

    Good luck to you Zach in most of your efforts. Keep writing – with hard work and experience you’ll go far (hopefully not as part of an Obama administration, however)

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  • Zach says:
    September 6, 2008 at 10:57 AM

    Thanks guys. I appreciate the kind words.

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  • Carlos Rubi says:
    September 7, 2008 at 7:35 PM

    You mean he was 15 when he joined Fire Brand? And had that kind of prose? Man… I’m impressed.

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