The Insanity of Lenny Dykstra

what a disaster. I think his story is going to end tragically.

He was one my favorite non-Rangers growing up. I loved that Phillies team with him and Kruk and Daulton.

What a delusional lunatic he’s become.

I don’t whether to pity him, or just to hate him.

I love that last line. I wish I were a surgeon so I could use that line.

Why the need to be a surgeon..? Use it anyway just to freak people out.

I nearly spit out my coffee when I read that.

Hilarious shit.

fit in here?

with this story and the other story posted about a month ago by one of Lenny’s previous photo editor’s is the number of times he has to use other folks credit cards to pay for fuel.

What’s even funnier is the number of times folks fall for that crap. Honestly, if the corp isn’t credit worthy enough to pay for fuel, why would you think you’d get repaid?

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_8558

in Lenny Dykstra scamming a rich Nigerian?

I think most everybody in the business world knows people with the same characteristics. Granted Dykstra takes things to completely new levels compared to the generic chest thumper Chris Chris types that you generally run across.

My question is how do these people always seems to do as well as they do? It doesn’t seem to require a great deal of perception to see through these charades, but in my experience, this personality profile always seems to do pretty well, and make good money. Usually better than me. And when the inevitable fall comes, seems like there is another investor or employer that scoops these guys up, often with a better deal than the last one.

so sad to see him tied up in all of this

“He thought he could keep my $500,000 and nobody would have the resources to go after him,” Dada says. "But in this case, I am going after him. General surgeons are not intimidated by professional athletes.

“Like I told him, if I can cut somebody from the neck all the way down to the pubis with a scalpel, then I cannot be intimidated.”

this is one of the better quotes i have read in a long time.

Must have gotten his financial education from watching the Godfather series, instead of economic texts.

His business plan is another story. He talks plenty about that during the early interviews for this story. Asked if the ambitious design to provide a handful of specialty services for pro athletes is in place, Dykstra says confidently, “Have I got a 12-inch c—-, or what? Of course, it is all in place. It might not look like it, but everything I do is part of a plan.”

“He was always spinning something really obscure,” Jurewicz says. "And you know how Lenny talks. ‘Hey, bro, got this deal, man. I got to get you into a bird, man.’ And you’re like, ‘Listen, chief, I want a check.’

“I told him, ‘When the [Gretzky] house sells, you’ll get your money,’” Dykstra says. “But I said, ‘You got to build out the Web site,’ ‘cause no one in their right mind would pay $1 million. You might go to jail for that. That’s like Jesse James. I mean, $1 million? A Web site?”

This is the same Lenny Dykstra who, in hyping his grand design last year, told The New Yorker, “To do a decent Web site, you need two million dollars.”

im sorry but to spend 1 million on a website is flat out dumb. offer a 100k prize to college students, let them come up w/ the design then let them design the site/hire them. costs a hell of a lot less than 1 mil

“He gave me a name, but I don’t remember it right off the top,” Lee (his driver) says. "He said, ‘Get in touch with this guy.’ I think one time he wrote down a number, but I didn’t take it. I was, ‘Wow, is this really happening?’ He was dead serious. You know a person is serious when they mention it four times. He said, ’They’ll chop it up, break it down into pieces and they’ll send it overseas. And they’ll reassemble it overseas.’

“I don’t want to be associated with anything that he is doing right now,” says Suttmeier, chief market strategist for ValuEngine.com and an occasional guest on financial TV shows. “When he doesn’t pay my son the six grand that he owes, I give up on him. It’s simple. I don’t do lawsuits or anything like that, but I don’t want to be tied to him in any way moving forward. It doesn’t make sense to me.”

“Lenny says everybody steals from him,” says Kevin (his brother), a former minor league umpire. “And the truth is Lenny is the actual fraud, because Lenny doesn’t like paying people he owes money to. When I called for my money, he says, ‘I don’t owe you anything. I never promised you anything. All you do is steal from me.’”

what a sad story

Finally, all those years of practicing law have paid off, Adam!

You should MST more articles. You could become the new FJM.

On Wang Zhi Zhi: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3643579

Adenhart’s last moments: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4075761

About the use of his mother’s credit card, Dykstra says, “Listen to me, the millions of dollars I’ve spent on them — I mean, I don’t know what you’re talking about. That is why I can’t talk to you no more.”

Also: where he claims Danica Patrick is famous only because he put her on the front of his obscure magazine.

is that it’s not that bad of an idea. Young men with larger than average incomes, which income could end with a frayed ligament? They probably need financial counseling. Obviously, Dykstra isn’t the one to give it to them, though.

Young Lenny Dykstra figures pretty heavily in the book, and the description is right on par with what’s come out in the last year or so in relation to his business. He was Beane’s roommate when they were in the minors, and it’s the same sort of thing: really intense and kind of stupid and oblivious. I can’t remember all the passages about him, but a lot of it was about how he was successful largely just by being too stupid to no better and to intensively, single-mindedly persistent to quit. There’s a nice passage where he comes off as sort of offended/intimidated by Beane READING a BOOK, and tells him that shit will ruin your eyesite.