The usually chatty Wally Backman has no words. He just buries his face into his right hand.
“I don’t even know what to say,” the former Met and now manager of the Independent League Long Island Ducks told The Post on Thursday when asked his reaction to former Amazin’ teammate Dwight Gooden’s arrest Monday for driving under the influence after going the wrong way on a one-way street in Newark, NJ.
Gooden’s latest arrest in a decades-long struggle with drugs and alcohol came just a month after the 54-year-old former New York City pitching icon was pulled over for driving erratically in Holmdel, NJ.