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• NBA TV analyst Cheryl Miller layeth the smack down on Scot Pollard for showing up to their program late.
(”Mechanical aircraft problems, my ass!”)
• Maybe MLB should schedule their Opening Days in warmer climates.
• Is giving a restaurant a bad review really worth an MMAer beatdown?
• Did Manny Ramirez do steroids? Jose Canseco says there’s a “90%” chance he did.
• Lenny Dykstra isn’t such a shrewd businessman, after all.
Despite Lenny Dykstra’s insistence that every word of a GQ article ripping him to shreds like chewing tobacco was a bald-faced lie, at least some of it seems to be true. At the very least, he’s just about out of money and will soon lose his mansion and private jet.
A creditor has already impounded his Gulfstream II jet and the loan he got to keep his PLAYERS CLUB magazine afloat was tied to his $18m mansion in California. Now that the loan is sinking, the mansion may slip underwater as well. (Not that he was keeping up the payments on the mansion itself, either.) If only he had been paying 110% on the field and off…
• Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, comes clean about past steroid use. Show him all’s forgiven by paying $14 to see “Race To Witch Mountain”!
• Lenny Dykstra - great boss, financial genius, and friend of all races. And if you believe that, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn we’d like to sell you.
• It’s March Madness time! Awkward high-five between old white guys!
• Despite his marvelous on-court skills, Dwyane Wade won’t be schoolin’ anyone in Miami this year.
• New video shows Donte Stallworth taking a sobriety test after last weekend’s car accident that killed a pedestrian.
If we could introduce you to a man whose love of private jets, expensive watches, and financial shenanigans (to the point that Jim Cramer himself once said, “He’s one of the great ones in this business”) only barely outweighed his love for shocking language (“… nobody can call me a racist—I put three darkies and a bitch on my first four covers”), would you make room for him next to Bernie Madoff or settle for mob violence?
Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the world’s finest example of the excesses that led to the financial woes we find ourselves in today, a man for whom the word “spearchucker” still somehow has relevance, and your leadoff man for the New York Mets, Lenny Dykstra! Thanks to a new article from GQ, we now know more about the man, the myth, the machine.
And it ain’t pretty, folks.
No one should have been shocked that Lenny Dykstra was far less of a financial savant than he portrayed himself to be in countless media interviews. After all, this is someone who allegedly rang up huge gambling debts and was sued by his former accountant for more than $110,000. Plus, everyone know that you take financial advice from someone named Randolph or Mortimer, not someone who goes by “Lenny.”
But he always seemed like the type of guy who would be a great teammate in the clubhouse. Someone would would bring lots of energy, and get the other players fired up. But not all of his former teammates seem to agree, such as Phillies reliever/World Series goat Mitch Williams, who told the READING EAGLE that Dykstra was something of a pariah in the clubhouse:
Former Phillie-turned-fortune seeker Lenny Dykstra is hoping to make some more moolah by selling off his lavish L.A.-area abode.
Tom Hoffarth of FARTHER OFF THE WALL reports that Dykstra is seeking almost $25 million for the home once owned by Wayne Gretzky. If you like space, Lenny’s place has plenty of it - 12,713 square feet with 8 bedrooms and 7 baths situated on 7 acres of land.
But so much room was apparently too much for Lenny to deal with:
• Neil Best of NEW YORK NEWSDAY learns that Lenny Dykstra still doesn’t like to read, yet makes mad money.
• OBSERVATIONS FROM ABOVE THE RIM doesn’t like Mike Krzyzewski being criticized for not wearing a ribbon for a slain North Carolina student.
• GOING FIVE HOLE sees nothing wrong with the last event at Yankee Stadium being a hockey game.
