Review of Lenny Dykstra on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

A Reaction to the March 10, 2008 Segment

Even though Dykstra has become wealthy enough to live in a home that used to belong to NHL legend Wayne Gretzky and drives a German car that is ridiculously expensive, his story of how it happened for him seemed slightly fabricated . What is meant by that is when listening to him throughout the interview, he came of as being really spaced-out. It is fascinating that someone that spacey could obtain the kind of success independently that he has. This is not to say that he is stupid, despite of the way that he was often thought of during his baseball career. But throughout the segment , Dykstra just seemed so detached from reality that it is hard to believe that he could have so much financial savvy independently. Then again, many people are extraordinarily gifted in ways that are not always apparent.

One topic that was surprisingly not raised in the segment is the recent lawsuit that was filed against Lenny Dykstra and his wife for failing to pay $111,097 to an accounting firm that provided accounting and tax preparation services for them in 2006. In fairness, the suit was filed on February 21,2008 and it is likely that the interview portion of the segment was filmed prior to that date. Also, an article that appeared in the New York Daily News on the same date that the suit was filed reported that Dykstra is going to fight the lawsuit. The charges eventually may be pr oven to be completely bogus. However, it seems that someone who is supposed to be as business savvy as Dykstra and is egger to give financial advice to others, would not allow such a situation to get to the point where a lawsuit had to be filed to resolve it. The company that suing Dykstra apparently sent him bills for the service that they provide to him and were not paid. So it's not as though he didn't have any warning that this was coming. Or could it be possible that Lenny Dykstra is not so singlehandedly responsible for his own financial success and those who are responsible didn't inform him of this outstanding charge? Come on, $111,097 is a lot of money for someone to owe someone else and just ignore it.