Former Met Ron Darling says in new court papers that he couldn’t possibly have defamed his old teammate Lenny Dykstra — because Dykstra’s reputation can’t get any worse.
“Dykstra is a classic libel-proof plaintiff, whose reputation is so bad that he simply cannot be defamed,” Darling’s lawyer, Michael G. Berger, says in a motion asking a judge to toss Dykstra’s April defamation suit.
The Manhattan Supreme Court suit claims that Darling defamed Dykstra in his book, “108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game.”
The book says during that during the 1986 World Series, Dykstra went on a racist rant against then-Red Sox pitcher Dennis Ray “Oil Can” Boyd, who is black.