Perhaps the worst-kept secret in sports history is spilling onto the national stage.
Doc Gooden may be in peril.
The backdrop consists of a wide confluence of recent events, spawned by nostalgia, with the 30th anniversary of the Mets’ last World Series championship and the 20th anniversary of the Yankees’ dynasty-hatching title in 1996. Hence the stars of each squad had been summoned to myriad media spots.
The latest iteration of the “Save Doc Gooden” campaign started last week when the former pitching great missed a WFAN appearance. But Darryl Strawberry, the other half of the iconic tandem scheduled to appear before a studio audience, did show up.