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Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry on Their Intertwined Roads to Recovery

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.