Meet Dwight “Doc” Gooden.
Gooden, now 53, says that the Mets won the World Series at one point and that he was part of it.
Supposedly this team was great and won 108 regular season games. The legend has it that the Mets had great pitching, the kind of pitching that could win a World Series. They had a manager who would start a random person at SS and get away with it. They had Organizational Depth the likes of which you’ve never seen – they say this team was so deep that on any given day Mookie Wilson, Danny Heep, Howard Johnson, Tim Teufel and Kevin Mitchell would be sitting.
Hogwash.
No Mets fan alive can remember back that far into the previous century, and all these “facts” seems pretty hard to believe, so we will have to take Gooden’s word for it.
Another reason I don’t believe it is that I found a picture of Gooden appearing to be a New York Yankee just finishing a no-hitter. That makes no sense, does it? Why would he be on the Yankees if he were on this rumored Mets team and still had no-hitter stuff?
Let’s also do the math – if Gooden is 53 he would have been 21 in 1986. Really? The Mets had a 21 year old ace pitcher? And then let him throw a no-hitter for the Yankees? Come on people.
Final point, if this happened, wouldn’t Keith Hernandez’ new book have covered it instead of ending in 1980?
If anyone knows about this supposed time the Mets actually won the World Series please let me know.
