Another 'Nails' story

[fanofclendennon]

I read this and couldn't help note that here was a player we loved. Tough as Nails, sure, but I always admired him as someone who always fought hard to play above any expectations of him.

I saw him in his major league debut and laughed. This was a major leaguer? This stump of a human being? I stopped laughing when his 5-foot-8-inch nothing of an athlete managed to line a pitch just over the right field foul line for a home run in his second major league at bat.

But even then i was sure it was a fluke. Lenny Dykstra, I was sure, was no major league player. We were wasting our time with him.

But he was and we weren't. Indeed, not only was he a major league player but he was a damned good one at that. No other Met in team history -- Donn Clendenon, Gary Carter, Darryl Strawberry, or even Mike Piazza -- has hit more home runs in the post season than Lenny Dykstra.

It never occurred to me that this exciting player, one of my all time Met favorites, was a POS as a person. Who knew?

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseba...1.4280504?qr=1

[Oldmantrash]

Sad story.

He was an all time favorite of mine, I was angry the day they traded him to the Phillies

[MetsFanatic19]

It's really a shame to see these kinds of stories.

[Paulie6986]

I loved Lenny from the getgo. He played tough the way the game was meant to be played. He played with the intensity from the likes of Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Roberto Clemente.

He always had that toughness and swagger. It was part of what made the '86 team a force to be reckoned with.

As his positive attributes won #4 a World Series ring and a place in baseball history, now his arrogance and greed have earned him an orange jump suit with a nine/ten digit prisoner number.

Nails, sadly you have disappointed me, from a fan that once admired you very much......

[KingsnQueens7]

I loved Lenny from the getgo. He played tough the way the game was meant to be played. He played with the intensity from the likes of Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Roberto Clemente.

He always had that toughness and swagger. It was part of what made the '86 team a force to be reckoned with.

As his positive attributes won #4 a World Series ring and a place in baseball history, now his arrogance and greed have earned him an orange jump suit with a nine/ten digit prisoner number.

Nails, sadly you have disappointed me, from a fan that once admired you very much......

Agreed

[DisgruntledGoat]

Hubris and time make fools of us all...

[fanofclendennon]

I loved Lenny from the getgo. He played tough the way the game was meant to be played. He played with the intensity from the likes of Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Roberto Clemente.

He always had that toughness and swagger. It was part of what made the '86 team a force to be reckoned with.

As his positive attributes won #4 a World Series ring and a place in baseball history, now his arrogance and greed have earned him an orange jump suit with a nine/ten digit prisoner number.

Nails, sadly you have disappointed me, from a fan that once admired you very much......

Nailed it on Nails Paulie.