Lenny Dykstra

Danielle McCartan and Lenny Dykstra (1986 New York Mets World Series Champion) Recorded: Monday, November 27, 2017 Audio: https://soundcloud.com/coachmccartan/lenny-dkystra Video: https://youtu.be/xbIZBPkz-Fc www.prosportsrundown.com www.facebook.com/coachmccartan Twitter: @CoachMcCartan Perioscope: @CoachMcCartan :00 Intro :20 Do you consider yourself to be a New York Mets or a Philadelphia Phillies, at heart? 1:00 Lenny tells the story of the minute he learned he was traded from the Mets to the Phillies. His conversation with manager Davey Johnson. 2:15 Was the plane really THAT destroyed on the ride home after winning the 1986 World Series? 2:32 Did the 1986 New York Mets really party with the 1986 New York Giants in the New York scene? 3:22 Would the presence of social media in the 1980s have changed the game of baseball’s off-field antics? A story of repossession of his Rolls Royce … with TMZ present 4:10 Dykstra explains, in-depth his comment: “I started taking steroids because I had to”. 5:45 What do we do with “steroid era” MLB players in the MLB Hall of Fame: do they belong in? in a separate win? Or not at all? Dykstra is “completely lost how the 3 best players” aren’t inducted. He tells me he’s been escorted out of there. 7:03 Coming from a guy whose nickname is “Nails”, what do you think of today’s athletes? 8:01 What do you think of mechanical strike zones - baseball without umpires? 8:41 1986 Mets Lightning round! - Who do you still keep in touch with? - Who was the most stylish? - Who was the hardest partier? 9:36 @BBrophy1’s fan question: Did you keep your HR ball from the first night game at Wrigley Field in ’88? 10:00 @WriteDennyWrite’s fan question: What is your favorite type of chewing tobacco? Do you still chew? 10:20 Lenny’s closing words 10:41 Lenny’s encore: the “Super-Ball”. He asks, and has an answer to: how do you shatter HR records without steroids?