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Sideline Chatter: You'd think $80K false teeth would come with GPS chip

Credit Lenny Dykstra with another diving catch.

The former big-leaguer, 56, spent nine hours scouring through a dumpster behind a Jersey Mike's Subs shop in Linden, N.J., before finally finding his $80,000 dentures he'd wrapped in a napkin while dining and inadvertently wound up in the trash.

"I thought the cops were going to arrest me for trespassing," Dykstra told the Newark Star-Ledger. "I wasn't leaving my teeth there in the dumpster. No way was I leaving them."

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