Dwight Gooden

Born on today's date, Dwight Gooden.

"When the party started winding down, for myself, a lot of times I get to a certain point of using drugs, the paranoia sticks in. So I end up leaving the party with the team, going to the projects, of all places, in Long Island and hang out there."

"Then you know what time you have to be at the ballpark to go into the city for the parade, but I'm thinking 'OK, I've got time.' And the clocks, I mean the rooms are spinning. I said, 'Ok, I'll leave in another hour. Ok, maybe in 30 minutes, I'll leave. Well, maybe 15 more minutes I'll leave. Then the next thing you know, the parade's on and I'm watching the parade on tv....Horrible, horrible, feeling."

On missing the Mets 1986 Championship parade.