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Originally Posted by kane
If you haven't read it check out a book called The Bad Guys Won By Jeff Pearlman. It is a kick ass book about the 86 Mets and all the boozing, brawling and craziness that went on as they played out that season and won the world series.
I think you are right about Springer too. I remember reading about that somewhere.
As for Dykstra, I think you are right about that. I read a huge article on him a few years back when he was just starting to put together his stock stuff. He made a bunch of money from car washes and also bought Wayne Gretzky's mansion which he intended to update and resell at a huge profit. He was also running a magazine about investing and living the affluent life that he gave to pro athletes. As far as I know he was never great at picking stocks, but he was good at bullshitting people and making them believe he was going to make them a bunch of money. It seems like he has gotten sued by just about anyone who ever was in business with him and it looks like a lot of his wealth was just cooked books and faked reports. Like you say, a scam artist.
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I read that book and fucking loved it. I still laugh when I think about Dykstra blasting people with farts on the golf course. I don't know if MLB will ever see a team like the '86 Mets again, damn near every player was a larger than life personality. It's a fucking shame that so many of them fell apart, and even the one player that had his shit together, Gary Carter, just passed away the other day from brain cancer. I was also a Wally Backman fan and he was supposed to manage the Arizona Diamondbacks until they uncovered his mess of a financial and personal life, if I'm not mistaken they even announced his hiring and had to rescind it a day later when the stories started coming out. I'll always love baseball, but I'll never be a fan again like I was in '86...