Lenny Dykstra

  • 05 Jan 2010 at 2:30 PM

What Sort Of Horrors Did Lenny Dykstra Leave Behind After Getting Thrown Out Of His House?

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lennydykstratwizzlermouth.jpgNot sure how we missed this but apparently the company charged with maintaining the upkeep of Nails’ Thousand Oaks manse is none too pleased with the condition in which the place was left.

“The house was left by Mr. Dykstra in an unshowable state, with raw sewage escaping from the main drain line left undone,” Brian Dubois of American Holdings & Land said in court papers. “The home was littered throughout with empty beer bottles, trash, dog feces and urine and other unmentionables,” said Dubois.

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  • 27 Oct 2009 at 5:45 PM

Lenny Dykstra: Homeless Lenny Dykstra Doesn’t Have Money For Gas, Shelter But Could Live In Finest Home Money Could Buy, If He Felt Like It

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lennydykstrahangingtwizzlers.jpgAs you’re aware, brilliant legal mind Lenny Dykstra is representing himself in his “don’t call it bankruptcy” bankruptcy case (which has been converted from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation). How are things going so far? Well, Nails has some complaints. First off, why isn’t anyone repping for Team Twizzlers?

Attorney Leonard Shulman, speaking on behalf of the estate, said, “This is a very sophisticated and complex case with quite a bit of litigation that can, and should, be pursued.” He said his office is working with Fireman’s Fund to settle for “just north of $1 million” to cover damage to both homes and to drop claims of bad faith against the insurer. Dykstra says that leaves only about $500,000 to repair the larger house, which “won’t even pay my experts to get started” on repairs. However, any settlement money will go to the estate, not to Lenny Dykstra. The former World Series champion vented in court that the estate’s lawyers weren’t looking after his interests. “I just heard everyone talk about everyone else. But what about Lenny?” Judge Mund advised Dykstra to get his own attorney. “Estate attorneys are not you.”

He’s not asking for much, you know. Just a place to rest his head, maybe tin of dip, an apology from Jim Cramer for giving him the Bear Stearns treatment, and a private jet. The basics.

Dykstra complained in court that his estranged wife has plenty of money (including his pension) while he has nothing. “I live in the street,” Dykstra said. “I don’t want anything special. My wife gets $25,000 a month, and she’s got $300,000 cash. You know what I got? Zero…I couldn’t even buy gas for my car.”

Really, will no one have a heart? The man can’t even afford to put himself up in a seedy motel for the night.

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  • 05 Oct 2009 at 10:37 AM

Someone Paid $31,070 For Lenny Dykstra’s Winning Ball

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dykstratwizzlers.jpgUnfortunately the money’s going in the pocket of the pawn shop that auctioned Dykstra’s shit off a few weeks back, so don’t think this means he’s in any position to hire lawyers or move out of his car just yet. But! The fact that a bunch of people were willing to shell out over a hundo thousand for LD’s crap– the entire lot went for more than $162,000 compared to the lowball estimate of $60,000– does seem promising. Nails’ 1986 World Series ring alone went for $56,762.50 to an unknown buyer in Queens. Just imagine what we could get for LD’s “Discarded Dips Of Distinction,” a collection of chewing tobacco from the great moments in his illustrious career, tastefully encased in a white gold-flecked display case. We market this thing right and L-Dyks could potentially be back in the black by the end of the year, at which time he can focus on the important things, like this writing career and sharing accumulated pearls of wisdom like this with the world.

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  • 10 Aug 2009 at 11:55 AM

Leave Lenny Ah-lone!

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LennyDykstra.wow.jpgDon’t get us wrong. We know where our bread is buttered. But, that said, there seems to be a lot of piling on going on. For instance:

George Griffith of the trustee’s office said Dykstra signed a “real property questionnaire under penalty of perjury,” claiming insurance on the mansion did not expire until December. But the court filing says that on the very day Dykstra signed the document, July 14, the insurance was cancelled “for failure to pay.”
“Undoubtedly, the debtor had received prior notices that the insurance would be cancelled if the premium was not paid,” the filing said, calling Dykstra’s actions “dishonest.”

Perhaps we’re just being difficult, but it occurs to us that the policy “expiring” is not at all the same as the policy laboring under the constant risk of termination for non-payment. Of course, we only have CNBC doing translation for us here, so it is hard to tell, but when you are digging through the semantics in this kind of disclosure to try and force a Chapter 7 liquidation, you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Sure, we suppose it is possible that what Lenny really penned on pain of perjury was more along the lines of “…and furthermore, there are absolutely no issues that might threaten, or cause outright, a lapse of insurance coverage at any time during the bankruptcy process….” That seems… thin.
Baseball Great Dykstra Could Face Liquidation [CNBC]

  • 10 Jun 2008 at 1:49 PM

Pick O’ The Week

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dykstrahouse.JPGJim Cramer thinks Lenny Dykstra is a genius, and Jim Cramer is always right (in five minute increments), but still, you have to wonder about the business acumen of this guy Dykstra, who thinks he’s going to see a 33% return on a house he’s putting on the market in California this year, after owning it for ten months, do you not? You do. But, thing of it is, we don’t want to break Cramer’s streak of 700 spot-on calls (it’s up to one week and counting now), so we’re going to go ahead and say you should at least take a gander at this palatial spread. It features 8 bedrooms, a guest house, a carriage house, views of the Sherwood Country Club and Lake Sherwood itself, a pool and a tennis court, which Dykstra is trying to sell for $24,950,000, after buying it from Wayne Gretzky for $18.5 million on August 29, 2007.
Sure, it’s a delusionally high asking price, but Dykstra isn’t as dumb as he looks in this picture. Nails is throwing in some extras that will mostly certainly clinch the deal. The coup de grace of the package is LD’s “Discarded Dips Of Distinction,” a collection of chewing tobacco from the great moments in his illustrious career, tastefully encased in a white gold-flecked display case. Even the strongest/poorest among you will find it difficult to resist.
Ex-major league baseball player Lenny Dykstra asks $24.95M for mansion and 6.69-acre estate in Thousand Oaks, CA that he purchased last August from hockey great Wayne Gretzky for a reported $18.5M [Big Time Listings via US News]

  • 20 Mar 2008 at 1:39 PM

Jim Cramer: “He is one of the great ones in this business. Lenny Dykstra.” HBO: “Lenny Dykstra?” Jim Cramer: “Lenny Dykstra.”

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