The Dude's Child (Coitus?) is Quite The Ballplayer
Lenny Dykstra has a son -- named Cutter! -- who is a star high school ballplayer. He's played shortstop but recently moved to the outfield. Scouts aren't quite sure where he fits best. It appears his play picks up where Nails left off but his mother adds an important note saying Cutter is "not a pigpen away from baseball, like Lenny. He's more refined."
Cutter Dykstra, 18, is one of the nation’s finest high school baseball prospects and a possible first-round pick in the June draft. While many major league sons feel confined by their father’s legacy, the younger Dykstra revels in it. He is a brad off the old Nails.
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Cutter Dykstra, merely one inch taller than his 5-foot-10 father, carries the same speedy, hard-nosed hyperactivity to the game. (And the recognizable Dykstra, well, posterior.) Scouts adore his fiery makeup and envision him as a top-of-the-order hitter similar to his father ...
Well if he has an as like the Dude, he's sure to make it in the bigs.
Related: Lenny was also profiled in a lengthy piece in the New Yorker a week or so back. It's a fascinating look at the quirky former outfielder who is now chums with Mad Money's Jim Cramer as opposed to, say, Dave Hollins.
Don't be fatuous, E.
Posted by: Matt P | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 02:48 PM
Put that boy on some steriods and we have ourselves a ball player.
Posted by: kkreider13 | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 03:54 PM
The story is ludicrous.
Posted by: Joe Manning | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 05:58 PM
Everyone needs to watch the RealSports piece on Lenny Dykstra. He is certifiably insane.
Posted by: Greg | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 06:06 PM
^ Right, but what about Mrs. Nails?
It seems like the kid only has half-crazy genes, Mama Nails contributed enough to make the kid seemingly normal.
Posted by: ricky | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 06:32 PM
i wonder if nails was the one that advised cramer to not sell bear stearns.
Posted by: will | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 06:53 PM
Holy crap, that New Yorker article is fantastic! Nails planning a magazine for athletes... written by athletes... with Kyle Korver on video games ("Always know the key combination for DUCK!!!!!")... and Keith Hernandez as food critic... FOOD CRITIC. Holy crap, you cannot make this stuff up.
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Her co-star in the beaver picture?
Posted by: El Ricko | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 07:28 PM
yeah that real sports interview blew my mind. . .haha He looks so old -- must be those once-legal(in baseball) performance enhancers catching up to him
Posted by: a.hugh | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 08:29 PM
The Real Sports piece was incredible. If you have HBO on demand you can catch it. Nails is a financial genius, a rain man if you will. Lenny is one of like 5 people in the world Jim Cramer will take stock advice from. The part about the car washes he opened was hilarious (the Taj Mahal of car washes). And his 17 million dollar house be just bought isn't too shabby.
Posted by: Carl Racki | Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 08:47 PM