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Hot & Bothered
Things and/or person(s) that bother me…
PopCulture:
Octomom
Chris Brown v. Rhianna
American Idol
The Exodus from Myspace
The City of Detroit
The overuse of the word ‘surreal’
Sports:
Bud Selig
80’s All-Stars not in the Baseball HOF
Steroids
Gary Bettman
NHL teams in warm climates
The Pitstons
Tigers not signing Joe Beimelblogs like this…
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New York Post
By CHUCK BENNETT
April 6, 2009“Nails” has been hammered flat broke.
Lenny Dykstra, the once high-flying former Met turned entrepreneur and self-described Wall Street whiz, is at risk of losing his $18 million California mansion and private jet, according to documents and associates.
“He’s been writing bad checks all over town,” one source said.
The private-equity firm Index Investors filed foreclosure papers March 11 on Dykstra’s sprawling Thousand Oaks estate, which he purchased from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, records show.
Dykstra, a three-time All-Star whose tough, gritty playing style earned him the nickname Nails, did not return calls or e-mails for comment.
The firm gave Dykstra a $850,000 bridge loan in November to help his struggling The Players Club magazine meet expenses. That loan was secured with his mansion, which has been described as the crown jewel of the exclusive Lake Sherwood Country Club Estates in Southern California, the source said.
But Dykstra allegedly missed making payments, which were supposed to begin in January.
Index Investors declined to comment.
Washington Mutual then filed its own notice of default on his $12 million mortgage on March 18.
Meanwhile, Dykstra’s Gulfstream II was impounded in Cleveland on Feb. 12 after a creditor said the ex-slugger failed to pay $228,000 for interior renovations to it. The work mainly involved the installation of a state-of-the-art entertainment system.
Constant Aviation, which is in possession of the jet, declined to comment.
The former center fielder also is targeted in a dozen lawsuits by ex-employees and creditors who say they’ve been stiffed by him.
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Topps declares baseball card war against Upper Deck in court
By ‘Duk
Yahoo! Sports
Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:42 pm EDT
Ah, there’s nothing like a good old fashioned baseball card fight and it looks like that’s what we have between Topps and Upper Deck.On Tuesday, Topps performed the legal equivalent of placing its competitor between bicycle spokes, filing a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that Upper Deck stole its layout and design for a 2009 set from a set produced by Topps way back in 1975.
However, the pilfering is not said to end there. Topps also claims that Upper Deck is planning new product based on Topps’ 1971 and ‘77 sets. The Manhattan-based card company wants the court to order that any existing cards be destroyed and Upper Deck to turn over any profits from any sales already made.
In its lawsuit, Topps described how it believes Upper Deck mimicked its design with just a few variations.
It said similarities between each company’s cards included the use of a colorful, divided two-tone border, the player’s photograph superimposed on a thin white border, the player’s autograph toward the bottom of the picture and the use of an image of a baseball on a bottom corner of the card.
Topps said its competitor’s cards will confuse or deceive customers because each of the Upper Deck designs are nearly identical to the Topps cards.
Compare Brooks Robinson’s 1975 Topps to Evan Longoria’s 2009 Upper Deck above and it’s hard not to see the similarities, (even though I don’t see the autograph on the ‘09). It would appear that Topps has a few bones to pick with its top rival.
A spokesperson for Upper Deck has yet to comment, so it looks like we might be seeing this one tied up in the boring legal system. But, really, how boring could a court case be if it involves baseball cards in each exhibit?
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Lou Whitaker
1977-1995
2390 Games
244 HR
1084 RBI
AVG .276Ninth all-time among all second basemens in runs scored, RBI, and total bases.
Why isn’t he in the HoF?
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The Ruler’s Back
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