Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Lenny Dykstra opening states that he has previously blackmailed umpires.

Lenny Dykstra, former Met, states he has spent 500,000 dollars to hire private investigators to find dirt on the MLB umpires. He then used the dirt he found in his favor for strike zone. He states this is what he had to do to win and support his family.

What do you think is wrong with this?
How will MLB be viewed now after this scandal?
Do you think MLB will lose fans, sponsors, and future business opportunities from this openly known scandal?


http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/baseballer-proudly-claims-he-blackmailed-umpires/story-fno61i58-1227585034639

3 comments:

  1. It seems in the competitive world of sports, everyone is inclined to find a stratgeic advantage over their competition until the sports governing body steps in and inpliments a rule against such a competitive advantage.
    With this in mind, I fail to see how Lenny Dykstra was wrong from a competitive advantage perspective.
    If the MLB knowingly allowed Dykstra to continue with blackmailing the umpires, then that would be another question altogether.
    This quote seems to highlight the competitive advantage that Dykstra was seeking as well: "“Fear does a lot to a man. (I’d ask) did you cover last night? They’d call a strike. Oh, I don’t think you heard me. Did you cover the spread last night?” said Dykstra, pantomiming a strike zone suddenly shrinking to a minuscule size."


    Again, I think that´s it´s the responsibility of the MLB to prevent this kind of unfair competitive advantage but I don´t think Dykstra was in the wrong to seek out any kind of competitive advantage.

    With all that being said, it´s insane to claim that he needed to spend $500,000 to support his family. My question would be why didn´t he spend that money to actually support his family if his justification for blackmailing umpires in the first place was that he needed to support his family?

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  3. The MLB will certainly not lose any fans or support cause of this. A majority of fans know of the past corruption in baseball from the 1922 World Series being fixed, to Pete Rose, to the steroid scandals, to umpire fixing. As shady as this is, the majority of the MLB community (fans, media, sponsors) will not pay much attention to this.
    -Matthew Epstein

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