Comments on: Watch: Gooden’s Debut

By: unbelcaffe

unbelcaffe — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:31:38 +0000

Amazing.

The next year, he went 24-4 with a 1.53 ERA, 268 strikeouts, and 16 complete games!!!!

By: mets227

mets227 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:25:18 +0000

Pedro, especially if you include what is between the ears.

By: vbcabin

vbcabin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:17:20 +0000

What a time capsule…thks DJ!

Cowboy Joe, Fitzgerald, Gardenhire, friggin Hubie Brooks! ANd we were world champs in 2 yrs…who would have seen that coming?

In thos skin tight double knits, Doc’s legs looked like stilts.

By: Achilles400

Achilles400 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:09:11 +0000

What could have been. I always think of JR Richards when I think of Gooden. As I recall he went 5 for the win that day.

I forgot how big his curve wa back then. I think the stuff he ahd at the end with the Yankees overshadowd the ridculous fastball he had. I wen to almost every game he pitched at Shea in ’85. Didn’t realize at the time just how “once in a lifetime” his talent was. Can’t think of many since who had stuff even close.

By: HeBeGB

HeBeGB — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:54:48 +0000

ralph ends with “…and one strikeout…he had 300 of them last year at lynchburg”

how freakin’ crazy is that…300 k’s in 191 innings in double-a!

By: JefJarrett

JefJarrett — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:49:44 +0000

Some would say hes currently pitching……in Tampa Bay…..

That being said…Kazmir can’t hold Gooden’s jock…

By: mets227

mets227 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:35:28 +0000

“All the players were so skinny in those days.”

Cocaine is a bitch like that!! ;)

By: lionson76

lionson76 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:34:21 +0000

Damn those unis were tight. You could see Straw’s rib cage.

By: icedrake523

icedrake523 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:33:44 +0000

I did a mock prediction of how Gooden’s career would have been. I took the average stats from his first 8 years which were 17-7, 69 ER, 214.3 IP, 194 K. If he put those numbers up every year for 10 years in addition to his first 8, he would have been 302-123 with a 2.90 ER in 3856.7 IP and had 3,491 K’s (10th all-time). It’s probably not accurate at all but demonstrates how much talent he had.

By: gomets6091

gomets6091 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:33:11 +0000

does anyone else wish we could bring him back to pitch in the playoffs this year? Preferably we could get a time machine, kidnap him from around July of ’85, and bring him back….but at this point, I’d almost settle for present day Doc. His arm has rested for a few years, who knows, he can’t possibly be worse than Mota.