In the new ESPN “30 for 30” documentary, “Doc & Darryl,” Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry face each other in a diner in Maspeth, N.Y. — former Mets who are not close friends but were brought together by filmmakers hoping to ignite a conversation between the two recovering addicts.
“Just thinking about the stuff we did, I bust out laughing,” Gooden told Strawberry in a scene shot last summer.
“We were self-destructive,” Strawberry said.
Strawberry recalled that Frank Cashen, the former Mets general manager who built the 1986 World Series-winning team, told them, “I want you guys to drink milk.