After reading about Dwight Gooden getting arrested for DWI, I can now say I’m done with him.
With all the screaming a yelling over steroid and HGH use, I wish all that anger went against people who drive drunk. Think about what is worse, taking something to hit a ball a bit further or to revive your muscular system, or driving a car drunk where you can kill innocent people and yourself ? According to the police report Gooden had a child in the car. UN-FUCKING-REAL.
Looks like fans, the Mets, the Highlanders, and the Newark Bears need to stop being his enablers. Every time he runs afoul with the law, he gets help by one of those teams I mentioned and adulation from both fan bases in NYC.
If these charges are true and he’s convicted, I hope the judge has the balls to throw his ass in jail and then I want the Used Car Salesman to ban him from baseball.
UPDATE: I thought Gooden was drunk but it was high on drugs just as bad THROW THE BOOK AT HIM You want to get high? You want get shit faced? STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While I do not condone drunkin driving, which actually isn’t near as dangerous as they make it out to be just catastrophic when it goes wrong, how many of the players that took steroids fathered children that now have birth defects? How many people get pregnant while high? What affect does that have on the child? The justificaation of drug usage based on alchohol abuse jsut doesnt play. Keep them seperate and argue them on their own.
Paul,
Anyone who gets behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated on whatever substance they choose should be punished to the maximum the law allows. When you’re drunk or high and drive a car that car becomes a weapon.
You break the Law, you pay the price. it’s the way of the world.
Agree totally, Steve
Agreed.
@kranepool – No disagreement from me on that one. Up in westchester last fall we had a woman took out 7 people high on pot and drunk. However, the fact that drugs are illegal was enough for me to never get involved with them. That worked for me may not work for everyone.