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Lenny Dykstra
« on: October 27, 2015, 06:58:37 pm »
I caught part of an interview of Nails today on the radio. Among his bizarre claims was that

A) he'd never read a single book in his life (told his then-roommate Billy Beane he shouldn't read all those books because it would ruin his eyesight for baseball) until he went to prison

B) he read 300 books in prison

C) during his playing days he spent $500,000 to hire private investigators to follow umpires and dig up dirt on them. He then dropped hints while in the batters' box implying that he would expose their dirt (gambling problems, affairs with women, affairs with men) if they didn't make calls in his favor.

Dykstra did lead the NL with 129 walks in 1993, and finished 3rd and 4th other years. Maybe he'd have led more often if he had been healthier... So anyway, that's a pretty fucking crazy claim huh?
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Re: Lenny Dykstra
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2015, 07:11:40 pm »
It all may be true, but Dykstra is also a known pathological liar and con man. 
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Re: Lenny Dykstra
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2015, 07:45:13 pm »
Quote from: HudsonHawk on October 27, 2015, 07:11:40 pm
It all may be true, but Dykstra is also a known pathological liar and con man.
Sure, and he's also got a book coming out so he's got financial motives for having a controversial story. I'm just not sure if he's creative enough to think of shit like that out of nowhere.
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Re: Lenny Dykstra
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2015, 08:47:52 pm »
He's not only a piece of shit, but a dumb piece of shit.
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Re: Lenny Dykstra
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2015, 09:01:20 pm »
Quote from: jbm on October 27, 2015, 08:47:52 pm
He's not only a piece of shit, but a dumb piece of shit.

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''Now, Paris is France,'' Dykstra was heard to reason
on the flight from Paris to Amsterdam. ''But London, that's just
London, right? It's just London?''
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Re: Lenny Dykstra
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2015, 07:51:29 am »
Quote from: Ebby Calvin on October 27, 2015, 09:01:20 pm
'Now, Paris is France,'' Dykstra was heard to reason
on the flight from Paris to Amsterdam. ''But London, that's just
London, right? It's just London?''

Right. London is a city-state. A feudal fiefdom. Hope they let you in the front gate, Nails.
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Re: Lenny Dykstra
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2015, 08:51:50 am »

Quote from: Reuben on October 27, 2015, 06:58:37 pm

B) he read 300 books in prison

Was he coloring inside the lines by the end?


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Re: Lenny Dykstra
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2015, 10:58:41 am »
Quote from: Dark Star on October 28, 2015, 07:51:29 am
Right. London is a city-state. A feudal fiefdom. Hope they let you in the front gate, Nails.

You can imagine Dykstra hopping between the City of London and Westminster while yelling "but I'm still in London!"
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