Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Baseball just might have another scandal on its hands.

Former Met and Philly stalwart Lenny Dykstra claims he dug up dirt on umpires to shrink his strike zone. Dykstra's had a few brushes with the law, he says delicately. If it's just his word alone, I dunno. Presumably he has something to back it up?

Note to the already-suffering Paul Zummo: he allegedly started blackmailing umpires whilst in Philadelphia.

This will bear watching.

2 comments:

  1. he allegedly started blackmailing umpires whilst in Philadelphia.

    Slacker. He couldn't have done that whilst a Met?

    In all seriousness, I'm gonna guess that's almost completely full of moose droppings.

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  2. Yeah, that's why I hedged. According to the most detailed news story on ESPN, there's no mention of corroborating evidence.

    http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/13989301/lenny-dykstra-claims-spent-500k-pis-blackmail-umps-better-calls

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