Dwight Gooden creams Darryl Strawberry over claims he’s ‘a complete junkie addict’

Former NY Met Dwight Gooden has denied his former baseball compadre Darryl Strawberry’s accusation that he is “a complete junkie-addict ,” claiming his former Met team-mate is taking it personally that Gooden couldn’t make a scheduled public appearance with Strawberry last week.

Strawberry told the New York Daily News that Gooden skipped the event and he is worried Gooden has been using cocaine. Strawberry told the newspaper that Gooden’s son called him to beg him to help his father before he dies, adding that “the condition Doc is in, it’s bad.”

But Gooden said in a statement yesterday that he hasn’t done cocaine in years. He apologised for Strawberry’s “inability to show more character and strength,” saying “he obviously was never there for me.” Gooden claims he has always supported Strawberry, “during his best and worst days.”