Blue Jays (split squad) 9, Braves 5; Blue Jays 4, Orioles 1: But Never Mind That, There's A Sports Illustrated Thing About How Lenny Dykstra Is Going to Jail

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Can you believe they still publish paper copies of Sports Illustrated in 2012? And that I get them? Well it's all true! And this week there is a story about Lenny Dykstra, who is going to jail for having broken most of the laws. Here is the summary of David Epstein's article that they put up on the page that tells you what you could be reading about if you paid them money to mail you a magazine: 

On Monday, former Mets and Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra was sentenced to 3 years in prison on charges of grand theft auto and filing a false financial statement. In a story based on interviews with law enforcement officials and personal and business associates of Dykstra as well as police and court records reviewed exclusively by SI, staff writer David Epstein traces the pattern of criminal behavior that ultimately landed Dykstra in jail (page 50).Among the previously unreported details uncovered by Epstein are:

• Dykstra used his connection to Charlie Sheen to entice some of his associates into fraudulent activity. He said that Sheen and he were working on a number of ideas including an energy drink and promised his associates pieces a company that never existed.

• Dykstra got a model and mother of 5 named Jessica Costa into his scheme, convincing her to lease a Porsche 911 under her name that he would make the payments on, with her credit application. No one knows where the Porsche is now.

• A common associate in many of Dykstra’s plans was Robert Hymers, a onetime accountant who became infatuated with Dykstra’s lifestyle, said in an interview with police that one night while working late with Dykstra at the Intercontinental hotel in L.A., he fell asleep and when he woke up, his laptop was gone. Dykstra told him that a prostitute had come in, threatened him with a taser and taken the laptop. That laptop contained personal information of a person that Dykstra attempted to use credit checks for at two car dealerships.

All of this is of course awesome. 


Hey is Lenny Dykstra the first baseball player about whom you remember thinking "OK now this guy right here is on something"? Because that is the role he filled for me. Like, Canseco was massive, but I was only ever aware of him as massive, whereas Lenny Dykstra was a massive Phillie who was revealed to have been like a downright teensy Met when you saw his old baseball card at the store. Also one time I wanted to get a Lenny Dykstra rookie card for my friend for his birthday and I thought I had dialed the number of the baseball card store but the guy on the other end of the line disagreed however he played along for a minute.


KS