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"If you're the kind of person who rubbernecks after a horrific automobile accent, a celebrity boxing card featuring Jose Canseco fighting Lenny Dykstra might be the kind of pay-per-view programming that perfectly fills your entertainment void.

Coming this Saturday night at the Avalon in Hollywood, the former Major League Baseball All-Stars who became celebrity burnouts will go toe-to-toe in the ring as Western Civilization continues to collapse on itself."

Are you kidding me?............OK, where are you putting your money on this one? [b:1196fd4ba2][/b:1196fd4ba2]

Two of my least-favorite athletes of all time. Can we wish for a meteor to strike the ring? :D

I'm with you, Andy. I cannot imagine anything that would interest me less than these two doing anything - talking, boxing, wrestling, baking, sword-fighting - and any reports thereof!

Yeah, but Lenny played Strat.

It was probably him who never replies to nev's trade requests............

Wait a minute, doesn't Canseco outweigh Dykstra by about 40 pounds? Dykstra is listed as 160 on bbref, and that seems about right in my recollection. Canseco is listed as 195, and I just want to know which half of him they weighed.

I'll always have a soft spot for Dykstra, since his great year propelled one of my dice and card draft leagues to a title in only my second year in the league. That was truly a team the Gods smiled upon - got career years from Dykstra, Rick Wilkins, Alex Fernandez, Kenny Rogers, and Mark Langston to go along with big years from more normal sources like Frank Thomas, Mo Vaughn, and my 3B platoon of Jim Thome and Edgar Martinez. Plus I got a great year from my rookie middle reliever, one Pedro Martinez, and nails defense from Omar at SS.

Other than that, I hated the twit, since I was (and still am) a big Pirate Fan and it seemed like he averaged 3 times on base per game against them for his career.

The 160 was probably his pre-steroid weight.

I think Canseco's bigger, but Nails has something in the dirty category. Always pick the dirtiest player in the game.

I don't think either of these two can afford to lose any of their remaining brain cells. But who knows. Maybe they will each take a hard shot to the head and instantly become model citizens.

Maybe it is time for me to see a shrink.

Dykstra has an axe to grind.............someone else was supposed to be fighting Canseco but Dykstra begged the guy to let him have a piece of Jose. Apparently Dystra claims he is innocent and got thrown into the steroid bus by Canseco.

It has been alleged that Canseco in a previous celebrity boxing match that Jose sent twin brother Ozzie in his place.