Update: I changed the link to a more respected news source…
I just heard the news on WFAN as well…
And there was a kid in the car. This is just too much. Very, very sad. We all thought he was well, and now this. Just a shame.
Gary Sheffield has helped make Doc Gooden a part of the New York Mets family once again
by Brian Costa/The Star-Ledger
PITTSBURGH — Dwight Gooden plans his days around a text message. He sends it to longtime Mets public relations chief Jay Horwitz, always with the same question: Is Gary in the lineup today?
If the answer is no, Gooden might only tune in for the late innings of that night’s Mets game, in case Gary Sheffield is used as a pinch hitter. If the answer is yes, as it has been almost daily for the past few weeks, everything revolves around watching his nephew.
“I’ll let my wife know, ‘Hey, if you’re going out or whatever, go ahead. I’m staying in and watching the game,’” Gooden said.
Following Sheffield’s career has helped Gooden through some of the darkest chapters of his life, from years of cocaine and alcohol abuse to his nearly seven-month prison term in 2006. Now, Sheffield, who is more like a brother to Gooden, is bringing the former Mets ace closer to the team for which he starred in the 1980s.
