Nails likes Mike.
Michael Conforto, the third-year Mets outfielder scrounging for at-bats in Terry Collins’ crowded outfield, has a backer in Lenny Dykstra — as recorded on the ex-convict ex-big leaguer’s intentionally madcap Twitter account.
Dykstra, the Mets’ dirty-uniform leadoff hitter for much of 1985-89, posted an incomprehensible graph Monday morning — it seems to track with age, which would push the 24-year-old Conforto at the expense of 36-year-old regular center fielder Curtis Granderson, but who knows? — after Conforto responded to his first start of the season Sunday night by hitting a towering home run to right field in a 5-2 win over the Marlins.
To win, you have to play your best players. Nothing personal against Granderson, but Michael Conforto has to be in the line-up everyday. pic.twitter.com/CH7jLYe0u9
— Lenny Dykstra (@LennyDykstra) April 10, 2017
Dykstra, now 54, a few years removed from prison after the spectacular demise of his personal life and business portfolio, and nearing his one-year Twitter anniversary, has been chronicling the opening week of the Mets season in a series of dimly lit videos: from “you don’t want to know,” from “the war room,” from a car on the BQE, from a go-go bar, from somebody’s kitchen.
Another Dykstra favorite he’s pushing for extra at-bats is Wilmer Flores. Dykstra lamented Ty Kelly getting a pinch-hit chance over Flores in an extra-innings loss in Game 2, then was gratified — maybe Collins listened to his suggestion, he wondered aloud — when Flores homered in a tidy victory in Game 3.



