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Hung out with him for about 6 hours one night. Drank at the Beverly Hills Hotel for a couple hours, then went back to his place (studio apartment above his buddy’s garage) where we drank for another four hours. He told stories and called hookers the whole time. Craziest night of my life. He’s still in my phone contacts, but haven’t talked to him in awhile. Last time I heard from him he texted me to ask for 10k
Here’s the story of me hanging out with Lenny Dykstra. I was with my buddy who has a sports radio show in DC. He was out in LA for vacation. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S7dm14oMfGY.html. I’m “Ryan The Bellman” that they refer to. Story starts at around 1:30
What a great youtube comment. "I hung out with said celebrity" and before anyone could say yeah right sure mr internet guy you throw out evidence. Also told a story that made perfect sense with no hyperbole and exaggeration. This is a monumentus occasion.
He's one hell of a character in baseball history. My favorite memory was watching the Phillies vs the Cubs at Wrigley. He ran down a high drive to the ivy covered wall. He hit the wall and was showered with several beers by Cubs fans. He dropped the ball and ejected what looked like a pound of tobacco from his mouth. Harry Caray seemed to be drunk as usual and just made loud muttering noises. I was 12, I loved 90's baseball and Mr Caray.
Played with his nephew for a solid 10 years when we were younger, knew the entire family and they treated me like one of their own. Honestly I remember asking them about him and they just said, and I quote, “we just try to ignore him as much as possible”
That year that his hand got broke in his first at bat was because he got hit by Greg Maddux and if Maddux hit you he intended to. I think it was his way to deal with a guy that he and the other pitchers thought was cheating with steroids.
@@markloper5400 definitely not. Lol. I remember sending a screenshot to his nephew of one of the recent prison/jail sentences from ESPN when he got in trouble for money laundering or something with his car washes
@@charleschampion4682 A former boss of mine said the lottery is like an investment. People whom win the lottery play tickets constantly. It's not a matter of hoping for random intervals.
I think Lenny's downfall may be due to his lack of proper worldly exposure back in his childhood. I notice that alot of worst premature burnouts/fast laners are often people whom were insulated from the world in their youth. They never had any simple gains nor losses, no parents to sit down and teach them about sex, money, death ,etc because "muh innocence". These folks often are insecure or dead inside because they're always trying to recreate the adventurous youth they never got to have. It's unfortunately being normalized with this current generation of adults under fifty nowadays.
14:27 “dykstra said guards entered his cell and beat him while singing ‘take me out to the ball game’ until he was almost dead” Not gonna lie I nearly died laughing at that
This is one of the most mercurial stories I've ever watched. From a pronounced devotion of sobriety, while dedicated in pursuit of baseball excellence to a raging lunatic of unimaginable debauchery. What I love about this channel is the delivery of details, well beyond what any anorak knows. I find each story absolutely remarkable and always find myself learning something incredibly valuable. Many thanks for all of these well-sculpted vids of the highest order. Cheers!
Fun fact my grandpa was heckling Lenny once when the Phillies came to Pittsburgh and Lenny tried to jump into the stands and fight him. He didn’t make it but it’s still a cool story
A great thing would have been for shitbag Lenny to jump into the stands and have your grandpa beat the jerk from inches of his life and then rip off anything he could from him as he did to so many of his victims- lenny is a punk that needs to be back in prison for life or 6 feet underground - god bless your grandpa for heckling that asshole !!!
Really appreciate the grind you're putting into these videos, dude. Our business was just shut down due to new restrictions so we're basically forced into 'holidays', so having these to watch are always a great surprise. I've noticed that you've been posting these new types of videos like once a week, and the amount of research, footage, editing you do combined with the script you're writing means that you're 100% working on another video as soon as you put one out. The dedication you have, allows baseball fans to enjoy the offseason after a shortened one. You definitely deserve all the success you get with these.
@@mW-yp9gn and baseball doesn’t exist can’t even acknowledge him. I guess that wouldn’t really bother me but he used to engage with his followers. Now that he’s “big time” he’s too good to acknowledge anyone. I watch his videos but I refuse to re subscribe or like his videos because of that.
Also interesting now that I think about it 11:24 no taxes paid on stocks without realized gains. Buy and hold is basically a tax invisible safe harbor unless a mutual fund distributes dividends or capital gains. I’ve never heard the Cramer bit that’s genuinely fascinating
@Robo yes but if the point was about the number of customer he attracted, the value for him wasn’t the position it was the relationship with Cramer. So normal folks who aren’t liquid would have to sell and then it’s a loss but he could maintain a winning record and a full book just by buying and squatting on it. I know what you mean and you’re right but if profit from the sale is irrelevant, Then this is a genius strategy atleast for Cramer. When I genius I don’t mean it really in the best way haha
I dont understand. He's like the opposite of sub-botting. Sub-botting is obvious when there's millions of subs but no views. He's pulling 100-300k views a vid when hes got 27k subs.
The craziest part of all this is that when they were coming up as players, Billy Beane thought the world of him. Nice to know his "mental edge" (that allowed him to not care about failure, something that was Beane's downfall as a player.) was actually just because he was a sociopath.
I watched this guy in my little podunk hometown in Virginia, the single A minor league team for the Mets back in 1983. I was only 5 years old at the time but I do remember Lenny being the best player on the field (except for Gooden who played on that team for about a half season in '83) and my dad often called him "Scrappy Doo" from Scooby Doo because he was small but played with intensity. Unfortunately, he appears to have just been mentally unstable and easily corruptible once he developed an ego after the '86 World Series win. It is amazing that people can be so good, never be satisfied, and end up ruining your life and everyone else's life around them. Lenny really turned out to be a disgusting person that seems willing to do anything to get ahead.
This beginning of this vid reminds me of a part in the book 'Moneyball' where Billy Beane, who was a 1st round pick with the Mets that same year and roommates with Lenny, had such a different mental approach to the game that explained why he had a much more successful career. Billy was struggling with the pressure and a lot of self doubt, because he wasn't doing as well as expected, whereas Lenny was absolutely fearless and always lived for the next at bat, not the one that didn't just go well. It essentially showed him what the true make up of a major leaguer was.
Billy's introspection & ability to read gave him some crucial advantages over Dykstra post-retirement. Moneyball was in theatres while Dykstra was under federal house arrest for bankruptcy fraud.
I read "Monseyball" immediately after it was published, and it was a hell of a read, but Michael Lewis has been known to sacrifice accuracy in favor of narrative. I've read several of Lewis's books, and he's very talented, but take everything he writes with a grain of salt.
We heckled Ricky Henderson in Pittsburgh out in left field to the point he turned around and gave us the finger and kept tapping on his back pocket. I guess saying that his wallet was bigger than our wallets. Well Ricky did have us there. But that’s what you do in baseball when trying to take the great players off their game. Heckle the $HIt out of them.
@@jimwerther gee thanks Jim. But I guess hiring private investors to catch a gay umpires in the act is ok with dudes like you? Or do you prefer the ball players that beat the $H|t out of their wives and kids?
Ran into him while checking in to the Beverly Hills Hotel, when he heard me speak he asked if I was from New York, I said yes, he said I'm Lenny Dykstra and I said, who gives a shit?
@@bkr1895 when you remove them to give the Jersey Mikes manager a blowie in the break room so you can score some more dope and the bus boy cleans your table. idk, sounds like a Lenny Dykstra story to me.
I used to love this coke head back in the 80s with the Mets. You could always tell he had a few screws loose though. That collision with Mookie Wilson in the outfield is the worst I've ever seen.
“Metric ton”.... ?... remember how opposing players complained playing outfield in his area of the outfield? They complained that the field looked like a NUCLEAR WASTE dump... your metric ton observation is an UNDERSTATEMENT....
@Saving Souls Ministries.... Thats what he was trying to say.. That it was even MORE than a metric ton lol.. At Veterans Stadium in Philly, there was a huge tobacco stain in center field on the turf.. N they didnt cut that part of the turf out until a year or so after he left
In some of the Phillies yearbooks on the 93 team Kruk would talk about how he’d have a big nasty spittoon in his locker and in the training room where they’d all gather after the game he have a cup in his hand just to spit in. Also the rest of the team would get wasted and smoke cigarettes. It was a different time and Lenny was just showing the boys how the Mets used to do it in 86’. That 1993 team is my favorite team of all time but I’m not naive they did massive amounts of steroids and amphetamines.
I saw Dykstra get thrown out of a spring training game against the Blue Jay's when Clemens was pitching for them. Dykstra argued a strike call and lost his mind. It was his first at bat in the first inning.
I actually met Lenny Dykstra in 2014 at a Mets reunion event and then again a year later at a different event but within that year, his look completely changed. I almost didn’t recognize him. In 2014, he looked good and somewhat reformed. Then a year later I just had a feeling he had fallen back into his old habits and what not. Then of course, the Uber driver thing and all the other shit came, and it was clear that it was the same old Lenny.
@Lighthouse in the Storm What about him? The Mets got BB as a free agent initially and then later traded a bad pitcher and a bag of balls to the Dodgers to get him back.
@@dvhughesdesign And the Mets also threw in a prospect who never made it - two stars and a prospect for a has-been (or never-was, really). I remember where I was when I heard about the deal - I kicked the clock radio in my dorm room, shattering a tape cover (1980s!). That deal was an example of stunning stupidity. Literally every Met fan was infuriated, and every Phillie fan elated. What Joe McIlvaine was thinking about remains a mystery. At the time he made it sound like Davey was totally in favor of trading for "impact player" Juan Samuel, while later Davey blamed McIlvaine, clearly implying that he, Davey, opposed the deal. Davey was probably lying. It is true that Davey and Lenny were not exactly each other's biggest fans. As it happens, I agree with Lenny here about Davey being a lousy manager. Met fans treat him like a hero, but Frank Cashen handed him an absurdly talented team, and Davey ran a frat club that won a single pennant, and came within a hair of losing the WS to a vastly inferior team.
@@dvhughesdesign .....Incidentally, I rated the Kellenic trade as worse than this disaster. Right now Kellenic has been a tremendous bust, but Brodie's hubris and idiocy is still stunning to me. I agree with you that this deal is worse than any of the infamous 1970s deals.
@@jimwerther Enjoyable reads! The clock radio part especially. I too remember where I was and I also remember feeling absolutely lousy about it for weeks. So lousy in fact, I remember pondering the idea that perhaps I need to start rooting for a different team. Yeah.... decades later.... still a Met fan. :)
Some of the claims here are exaggerated, such as the blackmailing umpires part. Lenny made some wild assertions, but the evidence shows that many are false, the ump story included.
Knew a waitress in Philly who worked at a restaurant where Dykstra used to frequent when he was a Phillie ,, she said she HATED him as he would just say “more bread” in a very slurred and bizarre voice..
Funny side note to the addict and the horrible things they do. On the field he was the man though, after the game you have proof he got ugly. Interesting.
I loved Dykstra when he came up with the Mets. He and Backman were the tablsetters and drove opposing teams and pitchers nuts when on base. Always the dirtiest uniform, was a hard out, and found ways to beat you with the bat or glove. Loved his style of play and was a huge part of the Mets collective persona. I happened to have been at the same hotel where the Mets were staying in Montreal back in 1987. Our paths crossed in the hotel bar, and it didn’t take long before I realized what an arrogant asshole this guy was. He left the bar, came back 45 minutes later, and demanded his seat back from one of the girls that we were traveling with. He didn’t get his seat back, but just listening to him and witnessing his behavior was not only disappointing, but embarrassing. I learned he was a jackass and truth be told, glad he was gone from the Mets, my team since 1969. None of this surprises me.
Ran into his son, brought up his last name, not knowing Dykstra was a straight up menace. Holy shit. His son's reaction was pretty priceless. Wishing the best for him and his family
I just became a baseball fan very recently & my buddy who’s been a lifetime fan told me “as long as there’s been baseball, there’s been dudes trying to cheat at baseball” upon more learning, he’s so correct. I thought football was bad with all the “gates” but baseball is insane with the cheating.
If 5mg per hydro then that's 150 mg with tolerance it's due able but very highly unlikely..kurt angle use to take up to 40-60 pills when he wrestled you can balance it out with adderall to keep you going..eminem did the same and many others.
Ohh you DEF can. Vikes are only 7mg max. When my habit was real I was so far beyond that. I was doin 25-30 30mg percs A DAY for 3 years . A functioning addict is an incredible thing
@@Mikefantasia22 you’re right, it’s amazing how the human body can adapt and how strong tolerances can get. i can’t hit a 90mph fastball sober so it’s impressive this guy could under the influence. im sure he convinced himself that the drugs helped him hit better too
@@jdells59 Stay mad. If you were a player and you gathered dirt on Angel Hernandez, you wouldn't leverage that against him, and have him give you a zone the size of a pea as a plea deal?
Fun fact. My mom worked at a Philly hospital that he was permanently banned from due to berating every person he came into contact with. Regardless, he was my favorite player growing up. Just an absolute savage on the field.
In his youth “He reportedly Only had 1 friend and that was to play catch with”. This hit me hard. I felt this. It’s so freaking hard to find someone to play catch anymore 😢
He was for me too. I was in high school and college during his career. The next I saw him was on real sports with Bryant Gumbel trading stocks. I knew he was winging it. I don't recall the spiral downward after that. But I pretty much knew it was inevitable. I didn't know it went as bad as wolf of wall street though. Really cool video!
HiImPatch He doesn’t like people asking for likes. If people wanna obsess over imaginary internet points they should be able to. Doesn’t stop them from being retarded though.
Grew up with him in Garden Grove. His older brother was one of my best friends. That was back in late 70's early 80's. We would be drinking and smoking weed at their house. The boys all shared a large bedroom off the garage. He would come home in the off season after playing in Clearwater. He'd walk in and call all of us a bunch of losers. 😂 Good times.
@@Tronathon242 idk but I just would like to see a video about the dude, always fascinates me that he was a decent enough player to make the all star game despite being one of the most hot headed players
@@patrickr1693 nope, definitely a terrible person. Idk about you but I don't think people who blackmail, threaten and fight people are that cool. Plus he's clearly dumb as a bag of rocks, thinking that reading would hurt his eyes and make him a worse hitter
He's much worse than any of the other guys this channel has mentioned. Dykstra probably cost thousands of people millions of dollars and ruined their lives financially.
He knew it would lead him to that big contract, and he got it. Shame he wasted it all on drugs and alcohol which fueled more wastefulness. Too bad he couldn't stop himself.
Fantastic channel so many great videos I am surprised that you have only 57,000 followers, but keep up the great work! I feel this is 1 million subscriber channel.
Was just thinking what his psych diagnosis would be and I was thinking narcissist or sociopath but I'm thinking their has to be a few others as well. Throwing steroids and other drugs and alcohol into the mix didn't help.
