You Think Your Job Sucks?

[Guest Edgy DC]

For the record, Lenny has denied the accusations of this article:

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

He better.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Oh yeah.

"I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I gotta admit the truth: It turned me on."

[metirish]

WOW , if even a smidgen of this is true then Lenny must be an all time asshole. It reads like a classic scam story.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I never bought his act myself, but I think, with what's already part of the public record, we can pretty much conclude that Dykstra's carried on like a hole for a long time.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, little to gain I would think for a guy like that to make up a story like that.

Oh, and very easy to have forseen this moment coming. The good news for Dykstra I suppose is the opportunity now to spin this as all part of the larger economic downturn.

[dgwphotography]

To be honest, this sort of thing really doesn't surprise me....

[Fman99]

Wow.

[duan]

grim stuff isn't it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

More coming down the pike. I think we're weeks away ffrom some breakng news of him speeding toward the border with a fake beard in his glove compartment.

Special request to the world: can future stories about Dykstra not include a super closeup?

[metirish]

No class at all.

"I never carry less than $1,000. But flying high? Looks like I'm still flying pretty f------ high. And by the way, I'm flying higher."

Hate to see a guy go down like this but jeez he hardly makes it easy does he.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm glad that I never liked him.

[Fman99]

More coming down the pike. I think we're weeks away ffrom some breakng news of him speeding toward the border with a fake beard in his glove compartment.

Special request to the world: can future stories about Dykstra not include a super closeup?[/quote:29v6k54o]

What's more likely: Lenny suicide, or Lenny in shackles off to Stony Lonesome? Seems like a toss up to me.

[stevejrogers]

I'm glad that I never liked him.[/quote:2if7t1ae]

So you liked seeing Juan Samuel in center rather than him?

[TransMonk]

I'm glad that I never liked him.[/quote:2d3e9312]

I'm sorry I ever did. He was one of my faves as a kid.

Though the Philly years and the steroids have soured him enough for me.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm glad that I never liked him.[/quote:9dms5l1a]

So you liked seeing Juan Samuel in center rather than him?[/quote:9dms5l1a]

You're connecting some dots that aren't there.

All I said was that I never liked Lenny Dykstra.

[stevejrogers]

I'm glad that I never liked him.[/quote:1wqpxifh]

So you liked seeing Juan Samuel in center rather than him?[/quote:1wqpxifh]

You're connecting some dots that aren't there.

All I said was that I never liked Lenny Dykstra.[/quote:1wqpxifh]

Not really, just being a wise ass since that is considered one of the worse trades in team history.

[Willets Point]

Does Lenny Dykstra make his employees masterbate animals to collect their sperm? Because that's the worst job according to internet.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not really, just being a wise ass since that is considered one of the worse trades in team history.[/quote:1s897rfm]

Not necessary.

[metirish]

From the AP

LOS ANGELES - Former New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra has sought bankruptcy protection in Los Angeles, citing more than $31 million in debts. Federal court documents show Dykstra filed for Chapter 11 status on Tuesday. He listed assets of $50,000 or less and liabilities of between $10 million and $50 million. Dykstra, whose lifestyle included a lavish house, a jet and a Rolls Royce, says he owes millions of dollars to his 20 largest creditors, many of them banks. His filing follows at least two dozen lawsuits over his business and financial dealings. Dykstra, nicknamed "Nails" for his rough-and-ready style, is a former All-Star who spent 12 years with the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. He won a World Series with the Mets in 1986.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Oh, dear.

[soupcan]

So - was Lenny just a big con artist or did he just get cocky after making a boatload of money and thought everything he touched would turn to gold?

I'm tempted to go with option A.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Probably somewhere between. An independent audit showed his investment strategies for over x time TheStreet.com would yield an impresive return. I guess ike a lot of people, he foolishly expected that return to perpetuate itself, with compounded earnings, and over-leveraged himself based on that expected income.

Add to that the cockiness and charm of an ex-jock able to shake down people who want to trust him against their better judgment, and it makes for a potent cocktail of self-delusion and borderline criminal deception.

[Fman99]

From the AP

LOS ANGELES - Former New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra has sought bankruptcy protection in Los Angeles, citing more than $31 million in debts. Federal court documents show Dykstra filed for Chapter 11 status on Tuesday. He listed assets of $50,000 or less and liabilities of between $10 million and $50 million. Dykstra, whose lifestyle included a lavish house, a jet and a Rolls Royce, says he owes millions of dollars to his 20 largest creditors, many of them banks. His filing follows at least two dozen lawsuits over his business and financial dealings. Dykstra, nicknamed "Nails" for his rough-and-ready style, is a former All-Star who spent 12 years with the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. He won a World Series with the Mets in 1986.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

http://deadspin.com/5312028/lenny-dykstra-gets-played-off?autoplay=true?skyline=true&s=i

Nice employment of a popular Interweb meme in conjunction with Lenny's sad CNBC interview the other day.

(I especially like the network-interview-style cutaways to the cat's lying-in-wait.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Does this make any sense to any of you smarter people?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/31833973/

I guess his complaint does. But he doesn't.

Anyhow, Bucket was dead right about how Dykstra would spin it.

[Methead]

Is he drunk or is that just the way he talks all the time? I guess he's under a lot of stress... I'd probably need a few drinks too.

I remember reading interviews where he brags about how it's going to be so easy to flip the Gretzky house and make a quick $8 million... with that in mind it doesn't seem like he was paying close attention to the details of any mortgage(s) he signed.

Watching that video, it's tough to imagine anyone feeling confident doing business with Lenny.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Divorce getting ugly. That's always a charming subplot in these stories.

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jul/17/details-of-dykstra-marriage-emerge-from-divorce/

[Frayed Knot]

I heard some guy on the radio a week or so back saying that legal claims have been filed by Lenny's mother and brother for money he owes them.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Get the brother angle from carwash.com

I couldn't find a reference to Mommy's lawsuit, but here's a place where she allegedly got entangled.

Last month, though, on March 23, Dykstra picked up the phone and woke up his mother with a call at around 6 in the morning, according to Kevin Dykstra, his younger brother. Lenny was stranded in Cleveland. He wanted to charter a jet so he could get to a business meeting on the West Coast, and his credit cards were maxed out. He needed nearly $23,000 and asked his mother for it, Kevin says. His mother agreed to let him use her credit card. Kevin Dykstra says she has yet to be repaid. "He had no money," says Lenny's brother. "He is on the phone, crying to my mom, saying he has got to get home and he is in Cleveland, Ohio. He asked my mom to put up her credit card for 23 grand. That is just sick, dude. "The whole family is mad and she is all sad, saying he caught her off guard. She was asleep. He was crying to her, man." 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."

What's the deal with his attachment to chartered flights? I don't know how to rub two dollars together, but if I've got to guess any one thing that has brought him down, this seems to be it.

[Frayed Knot]

I think rich folk get used to doing things a certain way (like flying charters rather than coach) and it takes them too long to realize that they can't automatically handle the luxuries the way they used to.

Which of Hemingway's characters was it that explained how he went broke; "two ways: slowly at first, then quickly"