Lenny Dykstra calls Ron Darling a liar, says he made up claims of racism
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Lenny Dykstra reacts to an ESPN interview Ron Darling gave in which he defended statements he made in his new book that Dykstra taunted Oil Can Boyd with racists threats.
If Lenny really did this, why did Darling wait so long?
Darling thinks Kaepernick is a hero. I think that says it all... BS to sell his book!
This feels like a wrestling promo. Kept waiting for him to say something like, "so Ron can enter the ring at Summer Slam and we can settle this once and for all."
I’m on team Lenny. It’s not that he’s the most reliable witness, but f Darling for pooping on the ‘86 legacy with this. So unnecessary, and that’s why all the other teammates have Nails back. I wouldn’t be surprised that’s why there was a low turnout of alumni at Mex’s number retirement. No one wanted to see Darling.
Just saying, if this happened just before the at bat in such a big game. Wouldn’t there be video/audio to back that up? I would think it would have been captured.
Lenny's just try to make darling bad because he's better than darling
I'm going with Darling on this one.
Lenny may have made a mess of his life....but 3 Black guys of substantial prominence in the game at the time are vouching for him. Doubtful they suffer from internalized racism, etc
2 of them are friends and spent most of their mlb careers under the influence. They can barely remember most of the things they said let alone dykstra
@BKK consider the source, id be surprised if straw and good even remember 86 let alone last year, considering their problems
Internalized racism ? Oh my god beat it you sjw riot piece of shit even if I do agree with you
Even if did happen, Darling and any team mates that remained silent if they knew, are equally culpable. Darling also trashed catcher Ron Hodges for treating him like shit when he joined the team.. Waiting over 33 years to get even with a handful of coworkers that may have dissed you or did something you thought was bad behavior is far more scummy than anything these guys may have done. We've all worked with or for people we may not have liked. it's called real life. if you've watched Mets on TV over the past ten years, it's pretty apparent that Darling and Keith Hernandez, despite their success as players, harbor some resentment and hostility towards today's ballplayers. They are very critical about how the game is played today vs how they played the game in their era. Yet both of them whine incessantly about defensive shifts and starting pitchers not going deep into ballgames. It's BS. All team sports experience an evolution in strategy and playing style. The only thing that matters is scoring one more run than your opponent and winning the damn game. Darling and Hernandez's resentment is fueled by envy. Neither of them earned anywhere near what today's players earn and that really bugs them. The truth hurts. If it can be proven that Darling libeled Dykstra, the Mets need to terminate Darlings contract.
It's also possible that it just wasn't as big of a deal back then. Just like the game evolves, culture evolves. (I agree with your point on the game evolving--wishing it to remain stagnant like Darling and Hernandez seem to is something I sympathize with, but it's also kind of foolish and reactionary and nostalgic.) Culturally, we're definitely more sensitive now; in some ways for the better but probably in most ways for the worse (imo). Not defending racial slurs or anything, but I could see something that would cause moral epileptic fits in today's climate being something that in 1986 'the boys' (even Dykstra's black teammates like Strawberry and Gooden) would have chalked up to as being nothing more than feisty competitive 'locker room' trash talk and even hijinks in 1986. Yes, even if it involved something 'racial'. Things were very different in 1986. "Meh, we call the white guys mean sh*t too!" I could see that mentality being a thing in 1986. "He's talking about Boyd; he ain't talking about ME!" I mean, let's be honest: blacks themselves rag on each other for being 'too dark' and crap like that. Sanctimonious status-seekers like Darling pretend that's not the case but it is; IT'S ON BLACK TWITTER for crying out loud! And still they pretend not to see it but then freak out about the possibility of a white person simply repeating what blacks themselves often say about each other. So my point there with all that is that not all blacks are super sensitive and not all eras were as sensitive as our current one is in 2021. No one has considered the possibility that someone like Strawberry may have heard something at the time but simply didn't give a sh*t at the time and then also later forgot (he, like Dykstra has done a lot of drugs) about not giving a sh*t because he didn't care enough to remember and make note of it in the first place. Like we JUST KNOW "oh, of course the black players would have freaked out back then!" Uh, maybe. Maybe not. In 2021, absolutely. It's likely Darling is making a mountain out of a molehill by taking words that were more tolerated in a different era and context and placing them in another.
I know that's hard for some people to fathom but I think people were much more equal-opportunity shit-talkers back in the day and more people accepted that. Now, there are rules for who you're allowed to insult based on their race and gender and even 'sexuality' and then different rules for who you're not ever under any circumstances whatsoever allowed to insult ever based on their race and gender and 'sexuality'. It's just the way things are now. I'm not sure it was quite like that in 1986. Not to the same degree, anyways. We're likely judging 1986 by 2021 standards, here. Which makes Darling likely a disingenuous person even if he may actually be remembering something very real. But that would also explain why no one would have shrieked and had a fit until 33 years later and thought to put it into a book.
Time screws with the human mind a lot and people are horrible at recollecting accurately. Even if black players today say "oh, we never would have stood for that" (and I believe they're being sincere), time does screw with the mind. Darling probably isn't 100% lying about something that Dykstra said that was inflammatory but I think he's also taking something from 1986 said among 'the boys' that everyone was more or less cool with at the time (or at least able to take it in stride) and embellishing it and placing it into a highly sensitive 2021 context where everyone is looking for anyone who has ever said anything 'racist' in their whole lives to generate clicks and controversy. I tend to think the truth is somewhere in the middle of Dykstra's denial/Strawberry, Mitchell, Gooden/Boyd's lack of a recollection and then Darling's puerile 'tattletale'ing.
But getting to the point: I don't think I'd use the word "culpable' towards the team. You don't air out dirty laundry and sell your boy(s) down the river unless what they do is really really bad...(and even then sometimes...). Even they said something mean and racist or whatever. You don't create disharmony where there is none in the locker room just to be socially righteous. You pick your battles. There's nothing worse in a clubhouse than a rat who breaks confidentiality and trust. I'd rather be seen as some kind of "ist" word or as some kind of guy with shady morals even than be known as a rat willing to sell out guys who I shared a clubhouse with; if you're in the trenches and you don't like something, do your best to iron those differences out behind closed doors and then sign somewhere else the minute you can if it's that much of an issue. Snitching like Darling is doing (33 years later at that) to push a book or be 'on the right side of history' and virtue-signal is LOW; even lower than calling someone mean names, in fact. It's one of the lowest things you can do and he's picking on an easy target that's down (like Strawberry correctly stated in the NYPost article on this subject).
@@Icecreamforcrowtoo christ bro can you make this any longer
Lenny probably just don’t remember and darling crossed the line
Even if ron did I'd still love him
I believe in you. Darling selling a book.
I got UR Darling....hangin'
Im no fan of the type of person Lenny Dykstra is. But in this instance Ron Darling is the sleazier of the 2. Its not just Dykatra, Ron Darling aired 33 year old indiscretions of several players in the book. Thats just not cool. And for what purpose? Im sure we all did stuff 33 years ago that we would not dream of doing today. Would you want it published for the world to read?
I agree. Why open wounds 33 yrs old. Ridiculous!
He got verbal with me in the end but I do not hate or wish him bad, meeting him and getting to know him on a very personal level made me see why we have narcissists and sociopaths and yet people find them charming and likeable...
He looks perfectly trustworthy to me. Looks like the stepchild of the walking boss in Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke lol
What're you 70 years old?
What we got here is a failure to communicate.
Yep, he threatened himself. 👌
Who cares?
Yea let's forget about this and have a good laugh
Well I call see he’s still boozing it.
well gee....it worked. True or false. Now I'm curious. I'll get the book. Like those McRib commercials. Makes me get one.
your history speaks for itself man ,especially your racial history, so why would anyone possibly believe you, I assume you were a great player without the enhancers but how would we know, and has far as a human being goes you were clearly a disgrace. What good is a legacy if its tarnished. Its not to late to make it right.
You're the racist.