Ex-MLB Star Lenny Dykstra Spent 9 Hours Dumpster Diving With A Clown, Chronicled It All On Twitter

Stories surrounding former Mets and Phillies star Lenny Dykstra always seem to sound like they’re completely made up. Sometimes, unfortunately for Dykstra, and always, luckily for us, they are almost always somehow real.

Today we add another tale to the Lenny Dyksta’s bizarre anthology and this time it involves dumpster diving outside of a New Jersey sub shop and a pro wrestler named Sprinkles the Clown. Seriously.

The 56-year-old Dykstra was, of course, the one to chronicle the crazy story, as it happened, on Twitter.

(Dykstra loves him some Twitter, dropping an F-bomb in his very first post and getting into one of the oddest feuds ever with Lena Dunham.)

Here’s how it all went down.

Dysktra recently visited a Jersey Mike’s Subs shop about two miles from his New Jersey home to grab something to eat.

“The bread is so hard on those subs,” Dykstra explained to NJ Advance Media. “I took my teeth out and put them in a napkin, folded it up and forget them there.

“When I went back, the workers said they threw all the napkins in the garbage. I told them there was no f***ing way I was leaving without my f***ing teeth.”

That’s when the nine-hour scavenger hunt began, along with a little Twitter beefing on the side.

Amazing, right? Well, the best part might be the fact that Sprinkles the Clown, real name Jonathan Grbac, didn’t even know Dysktra before the dumpster diving adventure.

“I actually didn’t know Lenny until that night…. I picked up an Uber rider and it was Lenny,” Sprinkles told NJ Advance Media. “I picked him up in the back of a Jersey Mike’s. He had to go home and get a flashlight and some other stuff. Then we picked up another guy and came back. Then we spent some time picking through some garbage and some food….I stayed for about two and a half hours…. What happened was it started raining and it was already 2 a.m. so he says “Screw it, I’ll come back when it stops raining in the morning.”

Dykstra has since been reveling in all of the attention, as one with any familiarity with the man would expect.

“Make Nails’s Dentures Great Again” might be the greatest slogan I’ve seen yet.