Mets pitching legend Dwight "Doc" Gooden has had a troubled history with drugs—most recently, he was arrested for DUI in NJ after rear-ending a neighbor's car (his son was unrestrained in the backseat) last year—and now he's going to rehab...the celebrity, reality television kind with Dr. Drew Pinsky. And his fellow "celebrities" will include Lindsay Lohan's pugnacious dad Michael, White House state dinner party crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi, actress Bai Ling and Baywatch actor Jeremy Jackson.
Last August, Gooden was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame. Gooden, who remains the youngest pitcher to ever win a Cy Young Award (he got it in 1986 at age 20), said to the crowd, "This is really, really amazing, and it feels so good to be home. There was no better feeling than when I took the mound, there were two strikes on the batter, and all you guys were standing and clapping for the third strike." A week earlier, his wife told reporters that he abandoned her and their children, leaving them without financial assistance and forcing her to apply for food stamps.
