Some observations on the Mets before I announce my candidacy for Governor of New York:
Close your eyes and imagine a warm summer night, say July 22nd versus the Phillies. Johan Santana ready to take the Shea Stadium mound. The Mets in first place with a 3 game lead over the Phillies. A packed house of 55, 000 screaming Mets fans. Newly called up Fernando Martinez, who was tearing the ball apart in Bingo, takes over left field for Mosies Alou who is sidelined with a bout of old-timers disease. Santana vs. Ryan Howard. David Wright vs. Cole Hamels. All this came to my mind watching Johan Santana baffle the Old Town team yesterday and how every Santana start will be the BIG event in this town this summer. I can’t wait!!!
I watched REAL SPORTS on HBO last night as they had a feature on Lenny Dykstra who has become a stock market savant. The report showed how Nails has amassed a huge fortune by owning, operating and selling car washes in California and how he has mastered the art of day trading. Dykstra was pretty funny and candid during the interview but as I was watching him I found his appearance disturbing. He didn’t look like the Lenny of old and yes I know people age (as I well know) but he moved very very slowly and spoke very deliberate. Even though it’s good to see Dykstra quite well off, I still felt sad for him. After the interview Bryant Gumbel asked Bernard Goldberg if he broached the subject of steroids. They rolled a tape of Goldberg asking Dykstra about his use of steroids and Dykstra took off his sunglasses and said he would look Goldberg in the eye and told him no he never used steroids. Goldberg said after when the cameras were off Dysktra told him “you know I was lying before right”? It’s now secret that Dykstra used steroids but even now as a guy long retired from the game he still can’t come out and say he did them. Like I say, I feel sad for the guy.
This Billy Crystal “signing” with the Highlanders has left me stunned. How in the world can MLB allow this to go through? There is a part of me that hopes Crystal gets a line drive right in the head. If there was ever a jock sniffers Hall of Fame Crystal would be the first inductee. This is not an anti Highlander rant because I was all over the Mets for allowing Garth Brooks to take batting practice and also Kevin James as well, in fact there should be a MLB by law that forbids all of these Hollywood douche bags from any on field playing activity. If Derek Jeter was a real captain instead of fictional character he plays for the team he’d march right up to Pack a Day Hanks office and let him know that the players will not participate in this farce. If the Pirates had any guts they’d stay in Bradenton and play an intra-squad game, as this is a huge insult to the Pirates players and organization. The Highlanders are telling them that they suck so much we are going to let a 60 year old groupie play for us against you. If this goes through the Bucos pitcher at the time has to drill Mr. Saturday Night.
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This post was written by kranepool on March 11, 2008
I was a dealer (dice and cards) in the Showboat casino from 1993-1996. Several times, Lenny Dykstra would make appearances. Just about every time, he got so drunk and nasty that they would have to escort him off the casino floor. I never met him when he was sober but let me tell you, he was a nasty drunk.
The best however was David Justice was playing a game called Sic Bo (a dice game where you bet on dice combination - not like craps though). He placed several $1 chips on different combinations and when the dealer shook up the dice, he lost but he threw a hissy fit because he said he had put a $1 on the combo that came out. He would have won $25. You should have seen Justice, he was going ballistic like he just got ripped off for a million dollars. This was not long after Halle Berry left him and one of the players at my table sarcastically asked him how Halle was. Justice’s look on his face was priceless.
Woa, interesting stuff, Frank…keep the stories coming!
Steve, as commented here before, we need to have a payback clause in the MLB contract format…if you use steroids or the like, you give back the amount paid to date on the contract, and you are banned from the game. Period. that will flat-out end it.
This would be not just to stop the unfair cheating, and to promote better values in the Game, but also to protect the players, and the millions of wannabe players coming up in our neighborhoods, from abusing their bodies to gain an edge, and suffering afterward.
Love that July 22 warm summer night…
I met Lenny at an MAB show last winter. He was real cool to everyone but walked pretty slow and hunched over. I thought it was from all of those back issues and wall crashes.
How does Crystal have time to play ball when he’s working on the hit sequel to “Mr. Saturday Night.” The Yanks are making their spring training into a MTV Rock/Jock classic.
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