Len Dykstra is doing well for himself, dude
Cute stuff on HBO's "Real Sports" that debuted Monday from our old pal Len Dykstra, still as funky as ever even as he has made it big in business. Some highlights:
BERNARD GOLDBERG: “Is it true you once said you don’t read books because they might hurt your batting eye?”
LENNY DYKSTRA: “Yeah. You got to rest your eyes man, plus it makes you think too much.”
GOLDBERG: “Reading?”
DYKSTRA: “Too confusing.”
GOLDBERG: “Reading?”
DYKSTRA: “Yeah, I still don’t like to read.”
GOLDBERG: “And I’m supposed to follow your investing advice?”
DYKSTRA: “Only if you like money.”
CNBC’s JIM CRAMER: “I think people don’t think of Lenny as sophisticated. But I am telling you, Bernie, that not only is he sophisticated, but he’s one of the great ones in this business. He’s one of the great ones.”
GOLDBERG: “Lenny Dykstra.”
CRAMER: “Lenny Dykstra. Lenny Dykstra.”
GOLDBERG: “The one …”
CRAMER: “…Lenny Dykstra, I know. It’s like, ‘Lenny Dykstra? Now come on Jim, Lenny Dykstra?’ Yeah. Yeah.”
GOLDBERG VOICEOVER: “Jim Cramer is the host of Mad Money on CNBC and like Lenny, he’s also a little nuts …Except, unlike Lenny … Cramer went to Harvard … he worked at Goldman Sachs on Wall Street … and he started his own Hedge Fund … and made a fortune. And one day, out of the blue, he got an e-mail from someone who said he was Lenny Dykstra.
CRAMER: I emailed him back, I said, ‘Okay listen Lenny,’ you know, quote ‘Lenny.’ And he goes, ‘No it’s me. Lenny Dykstra.’ And I go back and I said, ‘okay, what years did you play for the Phillies?’ I’m thinking it can’t be him. And the next thing I know he says, Let me show you my ideas. And he sends me ideas, and I went to the editor of the TheStreet.com and said, ‘Look, I got to tell you, a guy who is applying the same skills to money that he applied to sports. It’s brilliant.’”
GOLDBERG: “You know, he doesn’t sound like those guys at Goldman Sachs.”
CRAMER: “If I didn’t know any better I would tell you that everything you hear from Lenny is an act. Because there’s no way that he would ever, that you would ever feel like he’s as smart as he really is – if you listen to him. Now there are probably four or five people in the world who if they sent me an email, told me to learn a stock, I would actually take them seriously.”
GOLDBERG: “And he’s one of them?”
CRAMER: “He’s one of them. He’s one of them.”
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I seem to remember he was on Kiner's Korner with his mother (for some reason) and it seemed Ralph was trying to hit on her. Anyone else remember something like that or is it an urban myth or macabre nightmare?
so if lenny is making money on certain stocks,i guess you could say he nailed it.
Lenny is too busy shooting himself up with roids to read. Give the guy a break.
Rich, I have that edition of Kiner's Korner on videotape and you are correct. I was at the game that day, taped it, watched it, and decided it was a keeper. Ralph was being Mr. Smooth. He ended the interview by saying something like "Well congratulation on a great game Lenny and for having a great looking mom."
Hey, well i just got done watch a T.v show sport illestrraded and i liked the way Lenny Dykstra became somethign in like im trying to my best to be sucseccful like he was i wanna be something in life, i just need a little of information on how i can invest money,, well i real realy hope you can get back at me i might just be the next Lenny Dykstra,, im serious
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