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Photo Of The Day: Lenny Dykstra, Because There’s No Margin Call On Crazy
“I was a wanderer, dude. I was like Gandhi,” Lenny Dykstra says of his post-bankruptcy travels in a new L.A. Times profile today. JUST. LIKE. GANDHI.
More brilliance from the profile after the jump.
I mean, if you’re going to be completely insane, it’s better to be Dykstra than Daulton. Again from the Times:
Dykstra, nicknamed " Nails" by baseball fans for his tough style of play, said he uprooted the for-sale sign from the front lawn of his Thousand Oaks mansion. It had been staked there at the direction of court officials overseeing his bankruptcy case. Then, Dykstra said, he changed the locks to the neo-Georgian home and threw a victory party there to celebrate what he saw as his reclamation of the $17.4-million showplace, bought from hockey star Wayne Gretzky in 2007, at the top of the housing bubble.
"If you [mess] with Nails," Dykstra said, nodding at the sign, knife still in hand, "you get the hammer."
By now, the story of his downfall has been told a thousand times. He rose to prominence under the guise of being some Wall Street savant--an idiot savant, most assumed, but still. For a couple years there, he had the Midas Touch. Then it all came crashing down. But will it go crashing back up in the near future? Lenny thinks so:
“I have been fighting my whole life,” Dykstra said. “That’s why I have a new theme song, dude, and I am going to play it for you.”
“I want to be a billionaire, so … bad, buy all of the things I never had,” he sang along, loudly and off-key, to the Travis McCoy song “Billionaire,” as it blared from his Bose computer speakers. “I want to be on the cover of Forbes magazine, smiling next to Oprah and the queen.”
Ah, Lenny. Read the full article for more context, but really: What more do you need? Of course Lenny Dykstra’s singing off-key to a Travis McCoy song called “Billionaire.” It’s all part of the plan, guys. It’s Lenny’s world, we’re just living in it. But speaking of the plan to become a billionaire... Can he do another Slice commercial? They’ve got 10% juice!
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