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It's almost a year old, but this was a great article on the downfall of Lenny Dykstra.

Growing up and playing baseball, I was the smallest and, most of the time, fastest guy on the team. The way I stood out was to play harder, be tougher, and do the little things better than everyone else on the field. Which is why I loved guys like Dykstra, Brett Butler, Ryne Sandberg, Kirby Puckett, etc. These guys played the game that way and I looked up to them as guys who did things the right way.

Unfortunately, personally they represent some of the worst guys in the game. Kirby Puckett, although he gave heartily to his community, was a womanizer and abused women. Brett Butler chewed tobacco constantly and was known to give it out to children, knowing the addictive and life-threatening issues associated with it. And Dykstra...well, his megalomania and paranoia know no bounds, as evidenced by this article. Which is sad, because the Street could use a guy like him...someone with flare, charisma, and who didn't graduate Ivy and get handed a post at a bulge bracket investment bank. Someone that everyday people can associate with and show that by watching the markets and learning about different products and strategies they too can participate in the game. But, again, we see the evil side of another sports star, another flashy guy in a jet out there pushing a dream that is not based in reality, and the innocent, hard-working people get hurt. Seems like a common theme in too many ESPN and Wall Street Journal articles.