Doc Gooden says downward spiral began minutes after Mets won 1986 World Series

Dwight "Doc" Gooden was so tweaked out on cocaine and booze the night the Mets won the 1986 World Series that he missed the team's ticker-tape parade down New York's Canyon of Heroes the next morning, the former All-Star pitcher writes in a brutally honest new memoir.

In "Doc: A Memoir," Gooden writes that the first person he called as his teammates celebrated their victory over the Boston Red Sox was his dad. The next person was his drug dealer.

"Champagne corks were flying as the TV crews grabbed their postgame sound bites," Gooden says, describing the chaos in the Shea Stadium locker room after the Mets won Game 7 of the Series.

"The players were shouting each other's names. People started pouring champagne on other peoples' heads. All of us agreed how great we were. But in the early craziness of the locker room, two thoughts were crowding all the others out of my head: I gotta call my dealer. And I gotta call my dad."

Gooden describes how his first inclination that night included telling his dealer he would be heading over to pick up a pile of coke. 

"Just make sure you're available, okay? It's gonna be a big party," Gooden told the dealer in a secret call made from a trainer's office.

"I got whatever you need," the dealer responded.

Gooden spent the night in a "sketchy" apartment in a Long Island housing project snorting lines and downing shots of vodka until dawn — when he blearily drove himself home.

While teammates including Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter were being showered with ticker-tape, Gooden recalls how he regretfully spent the next morning alone, not answering the phone and covered in shame. A moment he describes as the loneliest he's ever been.

"As my teammates rode through the Canyon of Heroes, I was alone and in my bed in Roslyn, Long Island, with the curtains closed and the TV on, missing what should have been the greatest moment of my life."

The unflinching memoir also chronicles Gooden's rise as the best pitcher in baseball, his descent into drugs and alcohol, his years with the Yankees and his ultimately successful battle against his inner demons and the substance abuse that derailed what should have been a Hall of Fame career. He goes into vivid details about his numerous rehab attempts and finally getting clean on VH1's "Celebrity Rehab."

The book, written with veteran journalist Ellis Henican, will hit bookstores on June 4, but excerpts are already posted on Amazon.com.

Kenyan children reenact Buckner's Game 6 error

Twenty-six years later and 8,000 miles away, Bill Buckner's infamous error in game 6 of the 1986 World series lives on.  While Buckner might have made peace with most of the Red Sox Nation, these Kenyan kids still find it funny.

In a video posted on YouTube, a group of Kenyan schoolchildren are seen reenacting the unforgettable 10th-inning  rally that ended with one of the most famous plays in World Series history— leading to a 6-5 win for the Mets before they went on to win Game 7 and the World Championship.  It even has the Vin Scully's play-by-play call.

The video was made after the students expressed interest in making a movie about an American sporting event and it came down to Buckner or the "Music City Miracle."  The kids are probably Bills fans.



Using a tennis racket and ball in an open field, the kids filmed their recreation of Mookie Wilson's two-out at-bat against Bob Stanley— starting with his wild pitch allowing Kevin Mitchell to score and tie the game at 5-5 while Ray Knight moved to second.

A youngster portraying Mookie then hits a roller to first base where "Buckner" lets the ball go through his legs and the winning run scores.  The rest is baseball history.

From the minds of babes.

Mookie And Buckner Auctioning Off WS Dinner Date Together

In what could be considered one of the most awkward dinner parties in history, fans will get a chance to bid for a chance to break bread and watch a World Series game with Mookie Wilson and Bill Buckner-- 25 years after the former New York Met's ground ball rolled through the legs of the self-exiled Boston Red Sox first baseman.

Buckner's improbable error of Wilson's 10th-inning dribbler down the first base line in the 1986 Fall Classic led to a Mets comeback victory and eventual world title.  The moment will forever link the two players in baseball lore.

Hopefully, Buckner cuts his food into little pieces so he doesn't...  too easy.

The auction begins today for the Oct. 24 dinner at Mickey Mantle's restaurant in Manhattan with an opening bid of $5,000.

Buckner's legendary fail helped the Mets win the World Championship and sent the Boston star into hiding.  It took the Red Sox another 18 years before they exorcised the "Curse of the Bambino" by finally winning a championship in 2004 after a long drought.

Over the years, the moment has been broken down in too many articles and documentaries to forget.

Buckner, 61, the one-time pariah has put the monumental error behind him and has now turned a lemon into lemonade.

He appears at card shows with Wilson, 55, and even poked fun at himself in an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" by catching a baby dropped from a burning building.

Championships by the Red Sox in 2004 and 2007 have also helped damper the pain for the once championship-starved Sox fans who shunned Buckner.

The top bidder can invite three guests to sit down and rehash the infamous moment.

It will be interesting to see if a Mets or Sox fan makes the largest bid for the meal.  There are a lot of questions to be plated.

For Mets fans, it''ll be an opportunity to stuff their faces with one of the brightest moments in their history and help erase memories of the last few dismal seasons.

Meanwhile, Red Sox fans, who just went through one of the great season-ending collapses, might not want any more leftover scraps of misery on their plates.

Bidding on the Dinner for Mucks runs through Oct. 19.  The sitdown is scheduled for the eve of Oct. 25-- the 25th anniversary of the 1986 game.

Even if the final bid for this dinner ends up skyrocketing, it'll pale to the cost of the actual ball hit by Wilson.  The ball's owner is asking $1 million at an auction set to end at the exact moment-- 25 years ago-- when Buckner bungled the routine play.

Let the Heimlich Maneuver jokes begin and pass the Tums.