We’ve covered the tabloidy aspects of Lenny Dykstra’s plummet from grace pretty thoroughly. Now, then, it seems like a good time to link to a story that covers that fall in a more thorough fashion. It’s by Harvey Araton in The New York Times and it’s pretty good.
The quote from the headline comes from a guy who tries to explain that Dykstra’s post-retirement career as a stock-picker was no sham. Sadly, however, it’s belied by everything we’ve learned about Dykstra in the past few years, this article included. He basically ripped off another stock analyst’s picks and charged people a thousand bucks a year for a subscription to such “insights.”
Oh, and his current Twitter account is a quasi-fraud too. In jail, Dykstra can’t really run it, so there’s a 26-year-old kid from Philly who runs the thing, tweeting mildly-inspirational hokum and asking for money for Dykstra’s legal defense. The 26-year-old idolized Nails when he was a boy, naturally.