You don’t have to be a baseball fan to enjoy the atittitude … but knowing the characters puts it into perspective.
A New York Met dugout conversation between Lenny Dykstra and Billy Beane …
Dykstra: So, who’s that big dumbass out there on the hill?
Beane:Lenny, you’re kidding me, right? That’s Steve Carlton. He’s maybe the greatest left-hander in the history of the game.
Dykstra: Oh Yeah! I knew that!
Dykstra thinks for a minute
Dykstra: So, what’s he got?
Beane: Lenny, come on. Steve Carlton. He’s got heat and also maybe the nastiest slider ever.
Dykstra takes it all in for a minute
Dykstra: , I’ll stick him.
The line between ignorance and arrogance is sometimes beatifully thin.
The characters …
Lenny “Nails” Dykstra
Steve “Lefty” Carlton
Billy “GM of the A’s” Beane
That picture is of Dykstra pre-steroids, he really ballooned up when he was with the Phillies. Though I used to love to watch him hustle in the field and on the bases. Very entertaining player. Gotta love the nickname “nails” for doing everything all out.
That picture is of Dykstra pre-steroids, he really ballooned up when he was with the Phillies.
Yeah … recovering from his back injury and surgery … he came back a New man, didn’t he?
I sued to chew a big wad of Red man back in my playing days. I had a poster of Lenny with a “Big Chaw” in my dorm room.
I read that book, and thought it was outstanding. As I recall, with that passage Billy Beane was saying that his tendency to overanalyze everything hurt him as a ballplayer. But that with players like Dykstra, ignorance can be bliss.
The ironic thing is that this tendency to overanalyze is serving him well as Oakland’s GM.
Being a Jays fan this guy has always been my favourite Phillies Pitcher :-):
The Hit!
Which sent Lenny to the "Car Wash! " 
Who is Steve Carlton now Biatch!
LOL, classic!
Sorry I guess it’s sort of like mentioning William Joseph** **Buckner in Boston.
BTW I’m also a Leafs fan so karma is taking care of everything.
**Sorry I guess it’s sort of like mentioning William Joseph **Buckner in Boston.
Or Don Denkinger is St. Louis. Todd Worrell’s foot is STILL on the bag … after 20 years!!!
DAMN!!!
Fun read guys! I’ve been a life long Philly sports fan. Ohhh, the pain! For those out of the 100 mile radius of Philadelphia, here is a link to listen to a true sports radio station: http://www.610wip.com/
BTW, Flyers bring home the cup in '06. NO DOUBT!
Reminds me of when the Cardinals signed pitcher, Tom “Home Run” Neidenfuer (sp?) a few years after he gave up playoff game-winning homers (as a Dodger) to Ozzie Smith and Jack Clark (of the Cardinals).
I guess that was the Redbirds’ way of saying “Hey, thanks.”
