From a well written piece in Sports Illustrated?..addressing the trash television project Gooden is part of.
Well, Dwight Gooden needs to learn that his life does have meaning. That he no longer has to carry the emotional baggage of being Dr. K; that, come day’s end, it’s OK to live humbly and simply and anonymously without signing a single autograph or retelling, for the 12,471st time, the story of Game 6 of the ’86 World Series.
You can help him, Dr. Drew.
You can leave him alone.