Dwight "Doc" Gooden on Darryl Strawberry Ratting Him Out About Drug Usage (Part 9)

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Former MLB star Dwight "Doc" Gooden reflected on a tumultuous period in his career, marked by drug usage and complex team dynamics. By 1987, the Mets administered a drug test. Unaware of his rights, Gooden complied and the test returned positive. Faced with suspension, Gooden opted for rehab, acknowledging the heartbreak it caused his family. Tensions further escalated when Gooden felt that teammate Darryl Strawberry had indirectly exposed his drug use. Allegedly, Ray Knight relayed to Gooden that Strawberry had implied his involvement in drug activities. Gooden, who admitted to partying alongside some teammates including Strawberry, felt betrayed. Post-rehab, Gooden's professional life saw contract disputes and friction with the Mets. Despite missing two months, he still secured 15 wins in 1987, only to face a salary cut. After contemplating free agency, he eventually accepted a lucrative $15 million deal, ensuring financial stability and moving his family to a peaceful neighborhood.

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@618grow 10 күн бұрын

These young kids have no idea how dominant Doc Gooden was in the early stages of his career.

@shottakush8404 10 күн бұрын

Bro, most of us don’t even watch baseball. After big Poppy and Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter I don’t even know who any of these guys are anymore. Except that one Japanese dude who has the crazy contract with the LA Dodgers or whatever team that is in California.

@whodat1884 10 күн бұрын

No shit, they literally weren't alive.

@yarmus718 10 күн бұрын

At the age of 21 "Doc" had one of the most dominant seasons in the history of baseball.... Without the Drugs he would be an all time great..

@bennisford1712 9 күн бұрын

Doc WAS A MONSTER!!!!

@bradlott3284 9 күн бұрын

Facts….From 84-86 he was the best ever

@killerjoe7596 5 күн бұрын

Lol..."That's a damn shame man"...Sums up Gooden and Strawberry perfectly.

@rconley40 9 күн бұрын

Doc a good sport! To able to talk about your past drug habit, takes a lot!

@EyeQon 10 күн бұрын

“Yea we were doing em together 😄” 😂😂😂

@mattbrown185 10 күн бұрын

Business is business. They shouldn’t have cut Doc’s pay.

@Danthomas829 10 күн бұрын

Facts

@unc1589 10 күн бұрын

Same old Doc! Always a good bro. For the record, the Mets were party animals. Almost the whole roster. Doc and Darryl took the heat for the team but most of those guys were a mess!😂

@tonybarillas 7 күн бұрын

Exactly from LennyDykstra, Keith Hernandez and some other guys

@user-iw6wf1xn1w 5 күн бұрын

Right Lenny Dykstra, Keith Hernandez were on that team.

@user-oq6nl8gf1i 10 күн бұрын

Darryl told that story a little bit differently on the Darryl and Doc 30-for-30. Darryl claims he told Ray Knight "It isn't me", and by default Ray knew it was Doc because there were only 2 Black "Young Superstars on that team"..... Darryl told his version to Doc on camera sitting in he diner. Why Doc believes Ray Knight over Darryl needs to be explained

@theboxingforce4701 9 күн бұрын

Probably because Ray was always a stand up guy.

@LadyDuchess 10 күн бұрын

Dwight is not telling the whole story. There had been rumors of him using drugs all of ‘86. Dwight was the one who insisted a drug testing clause be added to his contract in Spring of ‘87 (I guess to dispel the rumors he knew were true). I don’t think Doc knew the Mets would hand him a pee cup right then and there tho. 🤭

@mrd2581 10 күн бұрын

Dang Darry Strawbery of all people snitched on doc smh lol

@freebandz509 10 күн бұрын

That mf ain't living right 😂

@mrd2581 10 күн бұрын

@@freebandz509 exactly lol

@pinstripepimp517 10 күн бұрын

@@freebandz509wasn’t

@ewash1984 10 күн бұрын

Same people on my job. Mfs be snitching and doing drugs trying to get some brownie points smh

@dantexshelby 10 күн бұрын

@@ewash1984me too man micromanaging toxic too

@TheRealDeal1438 10 күн бұрын

Dwight like Vida Blue could've have well over 300 wins and Strawberry 500 hrs. What could've been

@johnnyboyboxing-yy4tw 10 күн бұрын

15 million adjusted for inflation is like 50 million probably today

@4foodinc 10 күн бұрын

sounds like darryl was the plug lolol

@jeremiahfreitag5242 10 күн бұрын

When I was a little kid. I collected baseball cards I remember fam near memorizing his card/stats. Doc was one of the good ones back then

@climatescientist 10 күн бұрын

the 1984 topps may still have some value.

@christopherbrock8913 8 күн бұрын

((Those were the days)) - eating that terrible gum that came inside of the package with the cards - setting the cards up on the table in each players position - I use to spend hours as a kid with my shoe box and baseball cards

@climatescientist 8 күн бұрын

@christopherbrock8913 I loved that stick gum actually. for the first minute at least.

@christopherbrock8913 8 күн бұрын

@@climatescientist lol - 1 minute is exactly right 🤣 with white powder chalk around your lips 🤣

@climatescientist 8 күн бұрын

@@christopherbrock8913 lol yeah. I still love big league chew though. grape and watermelon

@vladtv 10 күн бұрын

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@sharkkillag2456 10 күн бұрын

Whew, young black kids don’t care about baseball these days because of rap but DAMN they don’t and can’t understand how FIRE and COLD BLOODED this dude was. Dude was surgical ✍🏽

@PhillyAtl 10 күн бұрын

I don’t care 🤷🏾‍♂️ how much is past effects his current presentation. Doc is obviously intelligent and his story is extraordinary!

@davidginchereau 10 күн бұрын

Respect that doc has for darryl is still very heart warming to listen to doc talk highly of darryl.respect

@oldhickory4686 10 күн бұрын

That story Doc told about his parents hardly exists anymore in the race. And that's the hard cold truth no one will ever say.

@unc1589 10 күн бұрын

Wha? The race? Are you saying that parents are no longer disappointed by the shortcomings of their children? In the race? Hard cold truth? What are you saying? You may wanna explain that comment.

@oldhickory4686 10 күн бұрын

@@unc1589 That's exactly what I'm saying. Have you seen the city streets lately? We ain't in Mayberry anymore.

@JM-st6ut 10 күн бұрын

Sounds like you’ve watched too many episodes of Oprah perpetuating that myth. All the data shows that more than ever black fathers are present. When a black child does something out of pocket it’s always an immediate rush to blame the lack of parenting. White kids shoot up a church, school or grocery store it’s “mental health.” You’ve been had with this old played out playbook to demonize black families

@tommyfu9271 9 күн бұрын

@@JM-st6ut no it doesn't. the data says the exact opposite and it's sad. kids need fathers.

@JM-st6ut 9 күн бұрын

@@tommyfu9271 that is a lie. You don’t understand data. I guess you also believe there were rapes in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina or there was a crackbaby epidemic. Lies. 100% cap. Whose data are you citing? Generically claiming “the data” is for folks who don’t understand it. Black fathers are more present than ever. That’s not even in question. That you think it is means your data probably comes from The Heritage Foundation. Unless you understand the scope and method of how the data is acquired and discerned “the data” doesn’t mean anything. So who’s data?

@koreysmith2766 9 күн бұрын

strawberry stayed putting in work when gooden pitched usually hit a homerun in first inning give doc a lil lead

@trg-7506 10 күн бұрын

man i was hurt when Straw left too. still a Mets fan but promptly bought a Strawberry Dodgers shirt 😂

@TMC1982Part2 10 күн бұрын

0:20: One of the other players that Vlad is referring to was Ray Knight. Peter Ueberroth, who was at the time, the commissioner of Major League Baseball informed Knight that one of the Mets' young black stars had a drug problem, but didn't specifically say who. When Knight confronted Darryl Strawberry about what Ueberroth told him and asked Strawberry if he was the player who had the drug problem, Strawberry immediately said "It's not me, it's Doc!"

@Paris179 7 күн бұрын

If Strawberry is your security blanket then you know you have a problem bloop

@SarahJones-ik6jh 10 күн бұрын

You definitely deserve more recognition for this!

@kyland2394 10 күн бұрын

My all time favorite pitcher! Baseball’s best for about a 5 year stretch

@bradlott3284 9 күн бұрын

I sat next to Doc on a flight once. He was the nicest guy and he told me stories the whole flight

@LouiseStephens 10 күн бұрын

Love your unique style, never change!

@Thealligator_man 3 күн бұрын

Incredible interviewee and Vlad as interviewer 😪

@user-co5yu7tq4e 6 күн бұрын

One of my favorite pitchers!! Him and Dave Stewart

@fijiunlimited4503 10 күн бұрын

That's damn disappointing to hear if it's true The Straw went and snitched on The Doc...

@TMC1982Part2 8 күн бұрын

It's detailed in the ESPN "30 for 30" documentary on the 1986 Mets, "Once Upon a Time in Queens". Ray Knight asked Darryl Strawberry if he was using drugs after the commissioner of baseball, Peter Ueberroth told Knight that one of the Mets' in his words, "young black stars" had a drug problem. And when asked by Knight about it, Strawberry immediately told him that it was Doc (as in Doc Gooden) who had the problem.

@nineixb616 8 күн бұрын

He missed a whole championship parade, and they still couldn’t figure it out?

@freebandz509 10 күн бұрын

We did it together 😂

@stevenbrown6956 10 күн бұрын

I'm glad Doc talked about the injury. People always point to the substance abuse for his decline and I am sure that played a part, but the injury is really what did him in. Like he said, never the same.

@luckap79 10 күн бұрын

Doc and strawberry are the guys !! 🫡

@angelenostyle2661 10 күн бұрын

Doc was a MACHINE !!!!! N** threw a 137 mph ! lol...... Im in LA and I loved watching that Mets team as a kid !!

@christophercomitini8619 8 күн бұрын

Of course Vlad would skip right over the '88 NLCS game with the Scioscia HR run. One of the all time moments in baseball. Bro can't do nothing but Wikipedia.

@TreeSnackz 10 күн бұрын

Nasty work

@stevenbrown6956 10 күн бұрын

Darryl talked about this in their ESPN 30 for 30. They came to Darryl about a black player using drugs, he said it wasn't me, since there were so few blacks on the team they pointed to Doc. Darryl claimed he never mentioned Doc by name.

@kinglydone6785 9 күн бұрын

I remember when Scioscia hit that home run, Unbelievable! I was 10 years old born & raised in L.A. so I was a dodgers fan, but those Met teams seemed unbeatable. Dodgers won it all that year beating the A’s another seemingly unbeatable team.

@tommyfu9271 9 күн бұрын

Scioscia probably couldn't believe it either.

@TMC1982Part2 8 күн бұрын

Doc is misremembering here. It was Game 4 of the 1988 NLCS that he gave up the home run to Mike Scioscia, not Game 5.

@christophercomitini8619 8 күн бұрын

Of course Vlad skips right over it. One of the biggest moments in postseason baseball. SMH.

@CLEOFISTAYLOR 7 күн бұрын

Is that his stomach in the back?

@trapdoorfloyd 10 күн бұрын

Worst baseball team to ever win the world series.

@Rooted_Show 10 күн бұрын

Rooted!

@joseyeastwood 7 күн бұрын

Dude is literally tweaking,he is never going to get off that crap.

@kvantonio2001 9 күн бұрын

Darryle 🐀 berry 😂

@triplexakaarchiebunker2.093 10 күн бұрын

Love DOC ☝🏻👍🏻👍🏻🍀

@angelenostyle2661 10 күн бұрын

Vlad does some dope ass interviews.. The ppl he chooses and topics are dope af... Stop playin.. I don't see too many ppl covering our culture (esp that golden era) as dope as Vlad ....F what ya'll talking about.. Lord Jamar, you my n*** !!!!!! but I gotta keep it real.. Aint nobody else covervin ppl like The Doc, D Strawberry etc .. The "random" ppl he chooses to interview that are apart of our culture are dope af... Im sorry I gotta call it what it is.. Interesting AF....... F ya'lll !! I like this s**** ..... Vlad don't make me regret saying this !!

@bmartin1078 10 күн бұрын

Word

@Jaso839 7 күн бұрын

This guy could have won 300 games and made it to the Hall of Fame. Catastrophic waste of talent.

@zeke3388 6 күн бұрын

Cocaine 💨💨💨 a hell of a drug

@michaelmorgan2498 6 күн бұрын

Denis Rodman!

@mrpakeman 10 күн бұрын

Looks like he still on drugs

@davidescanio2929 4 күн бұрын

"ok its 1987 start of the season by this time your still kinda doing drugs and its starting to affect you alittle bit?" Um he missed the championship parade because he was in a crack house smoking crack. you think the drugs were effecting him chad? then laughs when Doc thought the coke would be out his system in 5 hours. dont hurt yourself hopping off your high horse there Chad. not cool👎

@REAlMIDOFFICIAL 10 күн бұрын

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