so is he one of the BIGGEST what ifs in baseball?
Top 10 at least?
Cause it had NOTHING to do with injury.
Doc and Darryl on ESPN right now
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so is he one of the BIGGEST what ifs in baseball?
Top 10 at least?
Cause it had NOTHING to do with injury.
Man I was thinking the same shit as I was watching. VERY DMX-ish in his speech and body movements. Hope he decides to get the help he needs, and embrace the treatment.
Young Doc looked like Denzel. He looks like an old Puffy now.
yup; pretty much, cause he ended up with like 330 home runs, but because of mostly his drug problems, a good chunk of his prime power years (early 30's) were wasted. For like 5 or 6 years he was only got to play in like 40-50 games. Imagine if he was playing 140+ games for those years. I think he would have reached 500. Fred Mcgriff was a better hitter, but I think Darryl had slightly better power... and Fred almost got 500, so I can't see Darryl not doing it.
i forgot all about strawberry
playing in la! i only remember him as a met.
playing in la! i only remember him as a met.
Doc Gooden’s ex was ‘disgusted’ by ESPN documentary
Watching “Doc & Darryl” — the ESPN “30 for 30” film on troubled former Mets Dwight “Doc” Gooden and Darryl Strawberry — in June 2016, Monique Gooden had one reaction: “Disgusted.”
Sure, Gooden’s ex-wife had expected to see a painful montage of the once legendary pitcher’s well-documented drug addiction, arrests and career flameout. But she also hoped to see a glimpse of the Dwight she calls a great father and grandfather.
Instead, the documentary portrayed the Cy Young Award winner as a man on the brink of relapse and completely untethered from family or any support system.
“He told me they filmed stuff with the kids and his mom. He was excited. They took that all out,” said Monique, 47, who was married to Dwight for four years and is raising a son Dylan, 13, and daughter, Milan, 7, with him. “He was disappointed. And I didn’t like it.”
So Monique reached out to The Post to let people know that Dwight is much more than just a druggie punchline.
It’s a message she’d certainly like for the Mets to hear. Dwight visited his old team’s spring training this week and told The Post he’d like to be a guest instructor. “I understand I have to earn the Mets’ trust back and I’m trying to do that,” he said.
He has Monique’s endorsement: “Dwight is great at teaching our son [baseball]. He was doing change-ups at 7.”
Before Monique divorced the hurler — whom she met at a Detroit jazz club — in 2013, she weathered his bad behavior, including numerous DUIs and a frightening 2010 bust when Dwight, under the influence of drugs, crashed into another car with Dylan in the back seat. Previously, in 2005, he was arrested for punching Monique after she hit him with a phone. In 2010, she told The Post that he had deserted their family and that she had to turn to food stamps to survive.
And yet, Monique, who was Dwight’s second wife, remains loyal to her ex, 53.
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Dwight Gooden visiting Mets spring training camp this month.Kevin Kernan
“I feel like he got a bad rap. [People] don’t know the other side of Dwight. They don’t know what kind of father he is,” said Monique, who receives child support but no alimony. Although she and their two children live in Columbia, Md., and Dwight lives in Piscataway, NJ, she says he is completely involved in their lives. “I have friends who are single parents and live down the street from their exes and they don’t have as much contact as Dwight has with the kids.”
Monique, an educator, said the father of seven and grandfather of five talks to Dylan and Milan daily, participates in autograph signings to benefit their son’s football team and spent this past Christmas at her home. The whole brood vacationed at Volcano Bay in Florida in August.
“During football season, he tried to get here every other weekend [to watch Dylan],” she said, noting that Milan is “a daddy’s girl.”
She also said that Dwight has good relationships with his adult offspring, some of whom have children around the ages of Dylan and Milan. “His grown kids are helpful to me,” Monique added.
When he visits, Dwight stays at her home and is known for cracking dad jokes, commandeering the remote and sneakily leaving spending money in his son’s backpack.
“If I need something and Dwight knows it benefits the kids, he will help in any way,” she said. “And if he needs my help, I’ll help him.”
As for his sobriety, she said, “He seems to have it under control. When he leaves, I don’t know what he does. But he seems good.”
She now schedules and negotiates his appearances and autograph signings, which are Dwight’s primary source of income. Monique began helping after he was widely mocked for playing Santa Claus at Midtown strip club Vivid Cabaret in December — a gig Dwight said he took to support his offspring.
Although Milan is too young to remember her father’s past, Dylan knows bits — but “he doesn’t want to hear or see anything bad about his dad,” Monique said.
“My family is my heart,” Dwight told The Post. “I am very blessed to still have a great relationship with Monique after all the pain we put each other [through]. I love spending quality time with my kids. Even if [Monique and I] are not together, we’ll still be . . . close.”
Monique, who is single, echoes the sentiment.
“I still love him as a friend,” she said. “That was one of the hardest decisions of my life — to divorce someone I loved. Our issues were always his addiction. He has a good heart. Despite his issues, he’s a genuinely good guy.”
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