plenzmd1 Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 Wow...this is crazy. Kraftprolly been doing this for years https://amp.twimg.com/v/261514b1-14bd-4df3-bca9-f342d89d6da6 Makes sense to me
BillsFanM.D. Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 "Nails" has been accused of a lot of bad things himself....many of them due to financial shadiness. I wouldn't doubt this...but I also have to think he's trying to sell a book.
Buffalo Barbarian Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Wow...this is crazy. Kraftprolly been doing this for years https://amp.twimg.com/v/261514b1-14bd-4df3-bca9-f342d89d6da6 Makes sense to me Wow that is ruthless!!
17 Josh Allen Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) all I have to say is wow this is like the smoking gun. Former Major League Baseball player and NY Met Lenny Dkystra Hired PI's To Track Umpires to get calls by using the info he got from the Private Investigators and used it to squeeze the umpires to his advantage. So he ends up leading the League in walks and on base percentage and gets huge contracts. He spent over a half Million dollars getting the dirt on these Umpires and using it to his advantage. Video proof https://amp.twimg.com/v261514b1-14bd-4df3-bca9-f342d89d6da6 Edited October 28, 2015 by billsareback
MattM Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Wow--just----wow. I'll be interested to hear the reactions of the "this could never happen in a major sport" crowd. Here's another data point (to go along with the Serie A ref fixing and Tim Donaghy, among others) showing biased officiating in a major sport. My favorite quote: "“Their blood’s just as red as ours,” said Dykstra, who spent 12 years in the majors. “Some of them like women, some of them like men, some of them gamble, some of them do whatever.”" Kind of describes all of humanity in one way, shape or form, doesn't it? Also makes his later fraud convictions not that much of an aberration. I always disliked Lenny as a player, now perhaps with hindsight, I know why.http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/lenny-dykstra-blackmail-umps-walks-plate-article-1.2413364
BuffaloBillsMagic1 Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) Nails has lied so many times, some just for attention that I can't take this seriously. Edited October 28, 2015 by BuffaloBillsMagic1
Corp000085 Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Totally plausible. Not proof, but very much plausible.
Gordio Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Nails has lied so many times, some just for attention that I can't take this seriously. I hear what your saying. I loved Nails as a Met but he is a pretty dispicable person. But as I have said this before. If history has taught us anything when there is money involved, corruption is usually near. Don't think for one minute that some of these games are not fixed at both college & the pro level & that some of these refs are not getting paid off. Greed is a part of human nature.
Best Player Available Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Nice book teaser! believe what you want. Hope he NAMES and interviews the PI's in his "book" or it's very suspect. 500K? Really?
MDH Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) Where is the video proof you said was in the video? It was Dykstra telling a story, which isn't the same thing especially coming from Lenny. This coming from a huge Phillies fan and Dyskstra was my favorite player during that era but the guy can't be trusted. He very well could be telling the truth but he no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. Edited October 28, 2015 by MDH
dave mcbride Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Dyksta is a serial liar. He led the league in walks once, but he also led the league in plate appearances that season too.
Malazan Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 unless he has more than a sales pitch for his book...I don't buy it.
hondo in seattle Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) With all of Dystra's financial problems - and his history of untruths - this does seem like a gimmick to sell books. Then again, his character is flawed enough that he might have actually stooped this low. I guess if Pegs had something like this, Robey wouldn't have gotten that flag. But Dykstra's life is a mess because that's usually what happens to people like him. Edited October 28, 2015 by hondo in seattle
Beerball Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 I understand the title but this isn't a football thread so moving to OTW.
KD in CA Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Nails has lied so many times, some just for attention that I can't take this seriously. This. I loved Nails as a player but the guy is a world class dirtbag and loser. I don't believe a word he says.
Pete Posted October 29, 2015 Posted October 29, 2015 I have a friend who has been a card dealer in Atlantic City for a long time. He has plenty of Dykstra stories...
Chef Jim Posted October 29, 2015 Posted October 29, 2015 What a scum bag. "I did what I did to win. I had to support my family." Why not just be good at baseball or sell cars. And if he's lying to sells books he just as big a scum bag. I'm really beginning to dislike all these mother !@#$ers.
DDD Posted October 29, 2015 Posted October 29, 2015 There was an SI article on him about 8-10 years ago. Tried to publish a magazine exclusively for athletes. Very shady person. Owed alot of people alot of money he never paid.
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