By Theo DeRosa, Sports Talk Philly staff
Over the weekend, Lenny Dykstra appears to have added one more paragraph to the lengthy "Incidents" section under "Personal Life" on his Wikipedia page.
The controversial slugger, who played for the Phillies from 1989 to 1996, is in the news again — and it never seems to be good for Nails.
Dykstra checked into the Hotel ZE in Southampton, New York on August 18, a young woman in tow. And when he checked out, two days later, it was clear to hotel owner Zach Erdem that the former star was up to a little more than mere mischief.
As Erdem told the New York Post, “You could smell the marijuana throughout the hotel . . . They were ordering a big bucket of ice and extra towels every few hours. At 3 a.m. Lenny called down, and my brother went to the room, knocked, and he was invited in by the girl who was fully naked.”
The owner added that Dykstra had stripped the room of its sheets, pillowcases and towels, many of which the hotel staff found in the suitcases Dykstra left behind with instructions to ship them back to him.
According to the Post's Page Six website, Dykstra's luggage also contained "10 pairs of ladies’ shoes, a marijuana pipe and the hotel soap dish."
Nails left even more behind. Cleaners attested to finding empty bottles of vodka and Jack Daniel's as well as drug paraphernalia.
Dykstra, naturally, denies the charges. According to the Post's story, he even slurred his rebuttal: "“What? No! I didn’t steal anything. The stuff is still at the hotel. There was no maid service, towels and sheets were piling up, so I put it all in a laundry bag for them. I did them a favor and they call it stealing? This is ridiculous. Was I doing drugs? Absolutely not.”
As he left the hotel, Dykstra attempted to swipe the receptionist's sunglasses. It was captured on the security video.
Video credit: New York Post
It hasn't been Dykstra's first foray into trouble, and it doesn't seem likely to be his last.
