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Everybody loves a parade. No? Former New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden told ESPN’s “E:60” he missed the ticker-tape parade celebrating the team’s World Series victory in 1986 because he was using drugs. Gooden, who says he became hooked on cocaine during that season, said he watched the parade on television at the Long Island apartment of a drug dealer he did not even know. Gooden, who describes his first experience with cocaine as a 21-year-old star pitcher as “love at first sight, unfortunately,” added he was too high and paranoid to join his teammates for the parade. The Associated Press
