Word: gooden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midway through the decade General Manager Frank Cashen got serious. Suddenly, the Mets were trading for honest-to-goodness superstars like Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter, and drafting superstars-to-be-in-a-hurry, Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry. With a new manager, Davey Johnson, at the helm, the Amazins vaulted into contention...
...last three years have been trying timesfor us Met lovers. We wanted to think of Mexcareening down the first-base line to snag a buntand nab a runner at third, not Keith Hernandeztestifying about cocaine deals in Pittsburgh. Dr.K winning the Cy Young, not Dwight Gooden in cokerehab. The Kid diving into the fourth row for aseventh-row foul ball, not Gary Carter mugging forTV and irritating everyone with his golly-geefamily man routine. Straw slamming 35 taters, notDarryl Strawberry acting like a two-year-old.Nails hitting the miraculous round-tripper, notLenny Dykstra wigging out in the Pasta...
Only on Opening Day are all of baseball's ace pitchers in action. Roger Clemens. Dwight Gooden. Danny Jackson. Dave Stewart. Only Opening Day draws the president of the United States to Baltimore to watch the hapless Orioles...
...Dwight Gooden (1984), Vince Coleman (1985), Todd Worrell (1986), Benito Santiago (1987), Chris Sabo...
This was refreshing to hear. Athletes such as Dwight Gooden, Wade Boggs and Lawrence Taylor have degraded their sports and let down their admirers. Gooden and Taylor used cocaine, and Boggs was a self-proclaimed "sex-addict". But FloJo is both a model for track and for kids...