His 1993 season is one for the ages. Regular season but also was an absolute beast in the World Series. One of the greatest series ever played by a position player. He was on 🔥.
I was an All-American high school and college baseball player and I suffered multiple knee injuries in 1983. I led the state of Indiana in literally every offensive category my senior year in high school and a guy named Don Mattingly was second to me. But by my senior year of college my body was so beat up I could hardly walk! I've been through 27 Surgical Proceedures to this point and pain management unfortunately is a part of my life! So I understand exactly what Lenny is saying and so does any Athlete who has played at a high level! Good luck Lenny and I would have enjoyed having you as a teammate! Get thing's right Brother and enjoy the rest of your life...
Dykstra says he was a small guy around 5 feet 9, 165lbs, and a part-time player without roids because his body couldn't stand the entire 162 game season. Understandable. Which makes what Ichiro did even more incredible being essentially the same size as Lenny and putting up HOF numbers in his 20 year career.
@@DanMolden99Also, Steroids actually worsen your overall health in the long run. Dykstra's body was shot by 1996. Meanwhile, guys who never did roids, like Omar Visquel and Cal Ripken, played for decades.
Yep, so it can be done so this is just an example of a player that reached his full potential and was good but he wanted more and cheated to achieve what others could do naturally, perhaps robbing another player and their family of money. There is no noble reason for cheating, what helps your family hurts another so once again, he is just selfish and Ichiro (as far as we know) did it the right way.
I think Lenny was holding back on guys who took here. They all did, like he first said. Then he backed off on names, no need to bury his team mates. And peds are NOT out of the game now. Hell they've been slowly letting them back in over the last ten years. And they were never really gone, IN ANY SPORT.
I remember watching on ESPN, back in the day they had a contest to see who the fastest player in baseball was and Lenny won, beating Vince Coleman among others
NEED A MOVIE! Not sure who the hell could pull it off as far as actors go, my boy Tom Hardy could but might be too old. If they could find a good young actor to do Lenny justice it would be a great movie.
I went to high school in GG Ca. with Lenny. I had a couple classes with him. He didn't do drugs then when everyone else was. Sad what happened to him. Drugs ruined so many lives.
I was close to the family. You are right. Many of us partied Friday nights after FB games. Lenny played on our team. He always went home after. I would say that team in 79' was 50/50. Good boys and bad boys. His brother was a great athlete as well. I will say Lenny was very driven to play major league ball. He made it big out of Grove!
We took this trip to Garden Grove It smelt like Lou Dog inside the van, oh yeah This ain't no funky reggae party, five dollars at the door..... Unless you're Lenny!!
Couple thoughts: Notice how Dystra says everybody used steroids, but, steers clear of specifics about his own team. Dan Patrick seems to be admonishing Dydstra for outing his old manager as a drunk while managing. A reporter is telling a player to keep a lid on stories about players and managers. We don't have actual investigative reporters covering sports.
@@Ditka-89 They are harming themselves and setting an awful example, and maybe would have won more series if Johnson wasn't drunk all the time and actually coached the team instead of being one of the boys. Your post is why the world is crumbling down. Anything goes, nobody stand for whats good, healthy, and right anymore. Take a look around. "Not hurting anyone" attitude has infected everything, esp what's being done to our kids...
@@echoechoecho7142 set an example? No one knew he even had a problem until Dykstra outed him to the media. The guy was a functioning alcoholic. It would be setting a bad example if he broke the law due to his disease and people found out about it-a la Tony LaRussa and his multiple DUIs. There should be a separation between people’s private lives and their professional ones. They’re baseball players not politicians.
Charlie Sheen was a good player in "major league"... The actor that played the catcher( on the tip of my tongue),Tom Derringer?. Looked like character had many Gary Carter nods! 🤗
I tried to give this guy another chance. Even started to read his book. Sorry. This guy is just an awful person making excuses for his terrible behavior.
And those who wallow in the cesspool of drugs liquor sex will one day have to pay the fiddler, Why is it that the Phillies leave a bad mark on some of their best players as in MR.DYKSTRA, MR. PETE ROSE are two of the PHILLIE players who had legal trouble both went to prison, For years we have wanted a pro baseball team in TENNESSEE but every time the police say NO, they let us have a pro football team and there is talk they might close them down, so my question is were is the PHILLIE police to stop these players from getting into trouble. Police down here want allow that kind of stuff to go on, PACMAN JONES, VINCE YOUNG got rid of them and anyone who doesn't meet the proper standing has no place in Tennessee. Both MR.ROSE and MR.DYKSTRA was given a talent and made millions of dollars from it and both turned out to be nothing but criminals something our police will not tolerate.
I remember being on vacation in Florida and getting a USA Today to read about it. I was only 12...and furious. He wasn't my favorite player (Strawberry of course) but I knew it was a mistake. Samuel wasn't garbage but the trade just felt off. And bad. Again, I was 12 and knew. So many bad Met decisions back in the late 80's, early 90's.
That's kinda the point of every talk show/radio show guest ever. You think these celebrities and players show up just to talk and hang out for the hell of it? Of course not...they are pushing a book, a movie, an album....something. There aren't just there just to be there. It's called "doing the circuit".
Did a card show near Philly last week and waited on line to get his auto (Im actually related to him too) He was so cool, and calm spoken. He even remembered meeting me in 1988. Regardless of what has happened to him and what he's done, He is still sharp as a tack! Nails is one awesome dude!
As a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan who remembers all too well not being able to sleep after that fateful ninth inning of game six. Nails is right. Johnny McNamara (May he rest in peace.) did screw up. BIG TIME!!! He should've taken Bill Buckner (May he rest in peace.) out of the game and put in Dave Stapleton. If he had then, chances are, we fans wouldn't have had to have waited another 17 years for the Bambino's Curse to have been broken and I would've been able to have slept soundly that night!
You're not a die hard Red Sox fan if you're talking about the 9th inning of game 6. It was the TENTH inning where all the fireworks happened. Even if Dave Stapleton is in there, the game was already tied before Buckner's gaffe, so there's no guarantee that the 86 ChokeSox would have won anyway, so Buckner was the least of the issues in that 10th inning that you remember oh so incorrectly. Go back to sleep.
If you want the uncensored truth listen to Lenny Dykstra, Tony Atlas (WWF wrestler), Mike Tyson, and Mickey Rourke. What they say might not be pretty but it's straight from the gut.
It's hard to out and out say that Davey Johnson was an awful or overrated manager when the results speak for themselves. Just about everywhere he went, be it New York, Cincinnati, Baltimore, or Washington, his teams won or contended. His only true "failure" besides not winning more than one World Series, is his time in Los Angeles, where he was fired after his second year despite guiding the Dodgers to 86 wins in 2000.
Nails was as fierce a competitor as there ever was and it is rich when people criticize him despite not ever knowing in their lives for one second what it is to lay it all on the line for something and succeed. He brought confidence and electricity to the '86 Mets like no one ever did before or since.
