Financial Woes? Ha. Lenny Dykstra Remains the Most Arrogant Former Baseball Player on the Planet
1-liner, Former Athletes April 23rd. 2009, 11:00amLenny Dykstra: “They probably think I’m selling drugs. Got a house on the hill, couple planes. From what, hitting the ball where someone is not standing? What a wonderful world. But it’s not coincidence. Like when I came to the Mets and took them to the World Series. I got to the Phillies, last-place team, and take them to the World Series.” Actually, Dykstra is full of it, and a financial wreck. If the phone rings and its ESPN’s Mike Fish on the other end, hang up and go underground. He’s very good at what he does, and it probably means you’re about to get exposed. (ESPN)
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April 23rd, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Lenny is the best.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Where’d the “college football coach who told the student reporters to ‘go cover soccer’” post disappear to?
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 AM
yea, this article rocked. it’s hard to believe dykstra takes himself this seriously when he’s a fucking broke ass mofo.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Lenny is crazy.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 AM
That Vanity Fair article on that employee should be front and center everytime Dykstra is being interviewed.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 AM
I know TBL had posted this a while back, and some of you have read it alredy — but if you haven’t: please read this story from the New Yorker about Dykstra. I think I laughed out loud on the subway about 10 times. Awesome stuff.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Screw Mike Fish. I’ll never forgive that jerk for his baselss, factless, opinion-based b.s. “report” that he put out 3 days before this year’s AFC Championship game.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=3831956
That was worse than a blogger writing a comment-baiting post, or pining for pageviews.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 PM
This sounds like something out of a crappy bad guy wrestling promo.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 PM
forget all the lawsuits and and people that he screwed over . you know what really makes him a bad guy? he has a eagle with a message from george w. bush on it. as a matter of fact im just gonna say what everyone is thinking. i bet that dykstra being a dick is bush’s fault.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 PM
@badger. what article specifically?
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Inappropriate to suggest a Nails Death Pool?
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:33 PM
either suicide or murdered. he will not go naturaly
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 PM
This guy seems to be their resident shit-stirrer. He also “broke” the Matt Walsh taped a Rams practice “story” a day before the Superbowl. I wonder which team he’ll attempt to take down next.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:42 PM
This guy seems to be their resident shit-stirrer. He also “broke†the Matt Walsh taped a Rams practice “story†a day before the Superbowl.
I wonder which team he’ll attempt to take down next.
“Please be the Yankees! Please be the Yankees! Please be the Yankees!”
/crosses fingers
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Right after the Steelers story went live, a bunch of us Pittsburgh bloggers reacted accordingly. I remember a bigger blogger, can’t remember if it was TBL, Deadspin or whatnot, tried to contact Fish, but ESPN was keeping him off limits. They throw this guy out there to create controversy, then keep him away from inquiring minds.
Not saying Nails is absolved in any way, but hearing the words “Mike Fish” really discredits any story for me from here on out.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 PM
There are more reports then just from Mike Fish. Dykstra is a fraud, he has been for years now. GQ has a good article from one of his former employees. Dykstra seems ultra paranoid, it’s always somebody else trying to get him, never his own fault for, you know, not paying.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:34 PM
yel – Oh yeah, Dykstra is screwed. I’m just saying that I’ll get the info from someone else if someone is bringing up the byline “Mike Fish”