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In a sad turn for Dwight Gooden, the former pitcher for the Mets and Yankees, admitted in a Florida court yesterday to using cocaine. Gooden was on parole for a DUI incident last August and told his parole officer last week that he was using cocaine. After taking a drug test and testing positive, Gooden was arrested. It is expected that Gooden will face some prison time after his sentencing on April 5th. He faces a maximum of 5 years for violating his parole.
Gooden, who spent most of his career with the Mets, was the 1984 Rookie of the Year and won the National League Cy Young award in 1985. In 16 seasons, Gooden was 194-112 with a 3.87 career ERA and 2,293 strikeouts. In his 1996 season with the Yankees, he pitched a no-hitter against the Seattle Mariners.
Earlier this year, Gooden failed to get enough votes from baseball writers to remain eligible for the Hall of Fame until 2021 when the Veterans Committee can decide on his Cooperstown fate. Sadly, we worry that Doc might not make it that long.
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i remember cutting school and going to the parade when the Mets won it all. Doc of course missed the parade because he was coked out. 20 years later he still hasn't overcome his addiction. I blame it on Al Qaeda.
I blame it on Gaddafi.
I blame it on an evil drug addiction that is very hard to kick if you don't change the so-called "friends" with whom you are hanging out...
Doc needs to leave Florida if he wants any chance of getting better yet ironically, he can't under probation.
This is a guy who needs help, not incarceration where he will be treated like a king and have all the access to Cocaine he wants...
"I'd rather have his future than my past."
--Sandy Koufax on Dwight Gooden, 1985.
Sometimes the line between spectacular success and spectacular failure is so friggin' thin it's incredible. You think you can do all these thing and still perform at such a high level, and then the truth saunters by and drops the check on your table.
Unbelieveable. So friggin' sad... such a waste...