Crime in Sports - #319 - I'm Not Bragging - The Traumatizingness of Darryl Strawberry

Episode Date: September 6, 2022

This week, we check out the life of a man, who has had some ups and downs, to say the least. A tremendous baseball player, with all the accolades & championships, but off the field, he was anything but a champion. From wife punching, to a multi decade crack/cocaine addiction, complete with drug rehab escapes, to terrible driving. This guy spends a long time just not getting it, but will he ever come around, and ditch the demons??Have a beautiful left handed swing, escalate all arguments with your significant other, and go to great lengths to find cocaine with Darryl Strawberry!!Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!  Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman  Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail]  Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com  Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports [e-mail] facebook.com/Crimeinsports instagram.com/smalltownmurderSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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week let's run him down a guy who's been very famous for a long time these are the ones that are very difficult to get all the research in because they have been famous for 40 years that's difficult to document it really is that's it's an epic so daryl strawberry we're going to talk about boy daryl eugene strawberry to be exact so um he doesn't look like a eugene but okay that's fine um you can be adorable you can be a eugene yeah the picture of him because we did this as a live show last night we'd like 12 hours ago and we uh we did this and it was uh the picture of him as a child he is one of the most adorable children children yes adorable children you'll for some reason my brain said that's not the right word there and then it said don't say it one of the most no no children

i was like no child no that wouldn't have been the right word either one of the most adorable children you'll ever see just a cute little shit so there you go and then he grows up to just be the same but with coke around his nose that's the only difference yeah no not a cute shit it's different if you're you're sweaty and you know on the way to rehab it's just a different look so he's born march 12th 1962 so shit he's 60 this year wow no shit 60 you don't think of daryl strawberry is 60 for some reason but i you forget that these guys age yeah that's what i mean he's from los angeles a lot he's from los angeles and he is part of the i don't we nobody knows the exact connections because we're talking like third cousins and shit like that but daryl strawberry gary sheffield doc gooden eric davis there's a there's a one family mixed in there yeah that's

a shitload of baseball talent fred mcgriff related to them either too i don't think so i don't think so i've only heard of the four but he could be there could be more i'm not surprised i wouldn't be surprised because those four sheffield mcore Sheffield and McGriff were related. No, I think they just played together for a while in Tampa. Remember? They were in Tampa in the late 90s together. They just wear their hat similarly? Maybe. Now, Fred McGriff wore his hat like an old man.

He wore it like sitting kind of forward with the big stovepipe. Sheffield was more. Didn't Sheffield wear it like that? Maybe for a little while. All those hats were basically like that. Fred McGriff wore it like an older gentleman coaching Little League wears a hat. That's how Fred McGriff wears it. Or an eight-year-old with his first hat.

Yeah. And he puts it like one notch too tight. Yeah. But he just sits it up there. Some little kids used to do it like that so it would fall off when they run because that looks cool. You know what I mean? Oh.

Yeah. You run for a ball. He ran so fast the wind blew his hat off. You know what I mean? You look like Willie Mays and shit. So he grows up in Los Angeles. Grows up in Crenshaw to be exact. Yeah. Yeah, Darryl comes from kind of a rough area.

He is kind of a big family here. He's the third boy. They have five kids all together in the family. They have three boys and then two girls. And he's the last boy born, Daryl. So that's how it works. His parents are Henry. And I couldn't make this up if I tried because it would not be believable.

But his mother's name is ruby strawberry it's fantastic that is amazing she met henry and she was like well i don't really find him attractive i don't like him that much but his last name's strawberry we kind of have to marry this guy right i have no choice a guy named grape find a guy named Grapefruit. No. Either way, Ruby, Strawberry, Red. That's amazing. Yeah. And I would hope she wore nothing but red as well. I would never.

And you'd be like, well, yes, you are. You know, of course you are. Obviously. I should have known. And so by 1970, so Daryl's eight, and, you know, family, the two sisters have been born after him. And they have a small house in Crenshaw. That's what they're living in, and basically his father was terrorizing the family at this point.

Just a monster. Absolutely. He holds down a steady job and everything like that, pays the bills, but when he comes home, he gets shit-faced and beats the shit out of everybody. Oh, no. That's what he does he's one of those guys back then it was just like i worked all day damn it and you know if i want to smack my wife around i that's my right or you know whatever the fuck people are thinking i'm

bruising the whole carton of strawberries that's it oh all of them the whole thing they're gonna be useless they're gonna be useless thank god they're not gross thank god they're not the egg family they'd be scrambled egg mess over there. House is full of yolk. He's a real egg beater. He's a real egg beater, buddy. So apparently his father, big boozer. Like I said, his father also was a good baseball player when he was younger.

And that's kind of where I guess he gets his talent. Daryl does. And he said he'd come home in drunken rages and he'd beat the hell out of Ruby. And he'd also beat up his Daryl. And then he'd beat up his older brother, Ronnie, as well. So he'd just beat the hell out of everybody. And we've we've often asked we've asked this many, many times. Is it better for these fathers in these crime and sports episodes to just leave and never come back when

the kid's a month old or to stick around and beat the living shit out of everybody with an arm's reach one way or another you're gonna have a chemical dependency something but it's happened i mean this is kind of the this is like the the bad father who beats him as opposed to like the todd marinovich father who's overbearing and trains him or like jr smith was last week because his his parents were very much like the marinovichs they were right i mean from the time he was a newborn they put basketball hoops in his crib like that mattered fostering some sort of growth yeah it was it was weird so um uh dl, he said he spent his, his younger years in fear, basically just always in fear of his father. And he said one night Henry came home shit faced and started to yell at Ruby and then beat Ruby up. So let's let Daryl describe how this went down. Okay. Uh, quote, my dad was a raging alcoholic and he would come home night after night drinking and drinking and be very loud and, you know, disturbing the whole house and wake us up in the middle of the night. Holy shit.

And when I was 14, he woke us up that night and he was drunk. And my older brother, Michael, said, Why don't you just get out of here and leave us alone? And he actually pulled a shotgun and said he was going to kill the whole family at that particular time holy shit he wasn't taking a rain check he wouldn't pick up the shotgun and go three o'clock tomorrow you're all fucking dead he wanted to do it right at that particular time so that's good at least he's not a planner he's johnny ringo on a street of tombstone i want your blood But later we'll make up. We'll make a we'll make an appointment.

I'll call you and we'll figure it out. He said so. And had it not been for my wonderful mother getting us boys out of the house because we went into action. We were very serious about protecting our mother. And one of my brothers, Ronnie, went and grabbed a butcher knife and I went and grabbed a frying pan and we were going to actually kill him hell yeah oh my god I'm like Martha Stewart would making fucking strawberry smoothies over here yeah hell yeah he said and I was only 14 Ronnie was 15 and had it not been for mom getting us out of the house that night it would have been a tragedy in my life yeah yeah jamba juice in that motherfucker a little different scouting reports later on too i would say for the baseball press well i mean

he's got a quick swing nice hands he's good in the field really he's got a good arm actually very good arm strength speed on the bases and you know what the guy will go after it he's a go-getter he killed his father for christ's sake i think i 14 years old, he murdered his father in his own living room with a frying pan. I got to say, the kid's got moxie, you know? Yeah, see him with a gas tire. The kid's got a hell of a swing. No one's intimidating him at the plate. We know that much.

Incredible. Give this guy a baseball bat. Fuck. He said, and from that point there, my father was never around after that night. And the next day, my mother decided that she would move him out of the house and would go on and divorce him. So she saw her kids responding in such a way she'd never seen us respond. Incredible. She said, yeah.

At that point, she said, okay, this is getting out of hand when we're going to have mortal combat in my living room. This is. Yeah. It's not just smacking around. Not like it's a just thing to get smacked around, but now there's three different weapons at play. But it's easy to see who's the asshole in this situation and who to remove, you know what I mean?

Yeah, I guess so. I guess once your dad pulls a shotgun on you, it's kind of a strange relationship. Civil war and the house breaks out, and everybody is against one person that's the guy that's got to go no shit so henry will pop up again when daryl becomes a hot commodity in baseball in high school yeah oh yeah um and he says that too he said when he popped back up daryl said it's sad i never really had a relationship with him he never

sat me down and talked to me kindly. Never gave me a word of fatherly advice or counsel. Never taught me to tie my shoe or hit a baseball. None of those things a father and son are supposed to do. He either ignored me or beat me, period. And now he's at the atonement step and he wants to rekindle this? No thanks. Yeah, well now he just acts like nothing happens.

He just shows up and he's like, all right, Darryl. Nice hit. That's good, buddy. I'm over here. Way to go, son. Who the fuck is that? His dad? Waving a shotgun at you.

That's my boy! Jesus Christ. Now, he was really good at baseball. He said even his father would play. I guess his father played on a bunch of softball teams. He was like a ringer on a softball team and daryl said his father could whip the ball across the plate so fast you wouldn't know where to start your swing he'd hit the long ball over and over again every time he came to bat so pitcher great hitter well yeah his dad had a lot of baseball talent and um

so daryl said that he used sports as a refuge from all of his anger. He said he was angry at his dad. He was angry. Kind of, you know, just not a great situation. Sure. So he said, I would quote, I was very good at every sport I tried. I'm not bragging. Not bragging.

Really? Okay. That sounds pretty. I'm great at everything. Not to brag. I'm just great. Just wonderful. My bank account is huge. Not bra brag. I'm just great. Just wonderful. My bank account is huge.

Not bragging. You should see my cock, really. You should hear it when I put it on a table. I'll slap it down. It sounds like an Easter leg of lamb, like just a pow. He says, I'm not bragging. It was just in me. I loved it.

It was pure joy for me to play baseball, basketball, and football. While I was playing, I could almost forget about my angers and my troubles. Almost. All right. Fucking Daryl, man. Wow. That's the part where he's being humble. He's like, I'm good at everything.

I'm a mess between the ears, but I'm good at everything. It's a disaster otherwise. Ruby ended up going on to get a full-time job at the phone company to support the kids and she didn't give a fuck she was like out of the house moving on yeah she set it up she said that she did everything she could to make sure daryl could always play baseball because she knew that she loved it she knew how much he loved it and she said that he was so good at it that she was shocked to see him play baseball because he wasn't the same daryl he was at home which was a lazy fuck she said at home he's a sloth he's just a sloth he's a lazy son of a bitch he's talks back he's a little shithead

and over here he's like oh sure thing coach and he's jogging and hustling you're like what the fuck who is this kid she was, maybe this is where he belongs. You know what I mean? So he went to a bunch of different junior highs for some reason. I guess I think they moved a couple of times. So for high school, Darryl ends up going to Crenshaw High, which is a good thing for him because it's an athletic powerhouse. So that means. Is it really?

Yeah. It's a lot. A lot of big athletes come out of there, so that means there's a shitload of scouts that come there to all their games. So yeah, if you're half decent, they're going to find you if you play at Crenshaw. So it was his chance to get noticed

and right away, people noticed him. I mean, right away. Well, not right away, as we'll talk about, because at first he got kicked off the baseball team for being a jerk off. Oh, Daryl. Not the last time that'll happen to him in his life, as we'll talk about because at first he got kicked off the baseball team for being a jerk off oh daryl not it's not the last time that'll happen to him in his life as we'll talk about it'll cost him millions over the years basketball was his favorite sport because yeah he's six five yeah he's lanky thin framed i mean he looks like a basketball player he just he really does who was the guy that died that played for the celtics he looks like that body uh reggie

lewis yeah yeah reggie lewis yeah he looks like tons of basketball players a tall you know thinner framed guy you know makes you i guess you're more athletic and be able to move around he said uh but baseball was what he's best at he's that's so easy if you i you know i don't know i just It just comes out of me, you know. I try to, you know, basketball. I'm good there. Don't get me wrong. I'm all city and all that.

But baseball, it's like, I don't even try. It's just, you know, it just happens for me. It's so easy to do the hardest thing on the planet. Yeah, it's just easy. If you see his swing, he's got a swing that definitely, that's not like a manufactured swing.'s a swing he's had since he was a kid and it's it's very natural it's just it's pretty and it's natural he's got one of the active yeah he's got but he's got like that big high leg kick but this beautiful like majestic fucking left-handed swing great swing it is it's not it's not griffey's griffey jr had the smoothest the most beautiful thing you've ever seen it's it is it's not it's not griffey's griffey jr had the smoothest the

most beautiful thing you've ever seen it's it's it's he's never off of that point it's beautiful it's it's robotic it's just the way when he takes his hand off the bat yeah it's impressive it's really fucking beautiful but daryl's got like this different thing going on he's got a bit of the bat waggle not as much as as Gary Sheffield, but a similar approach. High leg kick, little bat waggle, except Gary Sheffield has his legs really far apart and Daryl's are closer together because he's taller. So he's keeping his shit together. And then he just uncorks it all. And it's like all eyes on me.

Yeah. Yeah. He's kind of leans in and then he just twists up. He's got some torque in his hips. Bad motherfucker in the box there. So he said, right from the start, I could pitch. I could hit home runs. I could steal bases.

I could field. I didn't think much about it. I didn't study the game. I just went out there and did it. Fuck you, man. Fuck you, Daryl. Yeah, suck my fucking ass, Daryl, you fucking jerk ass daryl you fucking jerk i'm not bragging i'm not bragging needs to be the hardest thing on the planet it's not bragging i just did

everything correctly i don't know i just thought it was easy you know to hit the ball yeah guys were trying to throw it past me and stuff but i just hit it and catch it caught it how do you do that you know i'm just faster than everybody so bases were easy to steal and um you know just the way it is so he by the time he gets to high school he's got a reputation already from like the little kid leagues and everything like that but his coach the coach's name is brooks hurst he said that daryl pissed him off a lot because yeah daryl was only a half effort kind of kid and it made him mad he said i had to sit him down and talk to off a lot because Daryl was only a half-effort kind of kid, and it made him mad. He said, I had to sit him down and talk to him a lot. I had him run laps.

I would tell him, the scouts come in here with assumptions about inner-city ballplayers. You have to counteract that. Don't give them the ammunition. But finally, I just ran out of patience, and he got kicked off the baseball team when he was a freshman. Sorry you had to coach, coach. It's like, yeah, sorry, dude.

But, I mean, the problem is in a school like this, there's a lot of good kids. So it's like you're taking a spot from somebody else who will try harder. So, sorry. It's probably exhausting to say the same thing over and over to every goddamn kid. Well, and it ends up being the best thing for Darryl because it teaches him a lesson because before that he could get away with everything and they go but he's so talented and this time this coach went hey i know you're super talented you're cut though because so's so's the guy that backs you up you you gotta be talented and not a jerk off both of those things to be on this team so

he said um the coach said i just sat him down and said, this isn't working out. I hope you want to come back next year. He said, Daryl took it pretty well. He still came to all the games and he helped lug the equipment. So he, I think it humbled Daryl a little bit and he, it made him redouble his efforts, which he could have either said, fuck that and walked away and, you know, got into some trouble or he could say i really want to be on the baseball team shit i fucked that up so he did the work in the ladder

so problem is he gets back on the team and um his ego gets bigger and bigger as he the scouts come to see him he's in the newspaper all the time everybody knows who he is it's it's easy for your when you're and he's got a great name yeah dary It's easy when you're 17. And he's got a great name. Yeah, Daryl Strawberry. And when you're 17, if two girls like you, you feel like the king shit of Fuck Mountain. Imagine if you're in the newspaper all the time and you go to the mall and people recognize you. You'd be like, I'm the greatest thing in the world. Bow before me.

You'd come home. You'd tell your parents to go fuck themselves.'d be like what are you talking about nobody recognizes you at the mall at the mall right you know you've got a better name than me and i'm still crushing you fuck that yeah why didn't you name me something i could have been cherry it would have been so much better so um he kept doing that though and the press build up around him and like the baseball draft when he's a senior is coming up. They're saying he's going to be a first-rounder, so a lot of local press and things like that. And then finally, Sports Illustrated does a feature on Darryl during his senior season in high school. Unreal.

Imagine being a senior in high school. Anything written. Leafing through the Sports Illustrated that talks about you. What are you doing, Darrell? I'm just reading about me in Sports Illustrated. Oh, my God, the ego you would have. Just reading about me. Holy shit.

It had a picture of Darrell, and under the picture it said, Darrell, 18, is likened to Ted Williams at 17. Wow. Ted Williams. Wow. likened to Ted Williams at 17. Wow. Ted Williams.

Wow. It's arguably considered top five hitter of all time. I don't think that's really arguable. It's just top spot. Who knows? Who's arguing? Yeah. Who knows?

He said he's got a Williams-type physical makeup, tall, rangy, good leverage. He's got bat quickness. He can drive the ball. The ball just jumps off his bat. Unreal. Unbelievable. Jesus Christ, Daryl. So the 1980 Major League Draft coming up. And the funny thing about those drafts is sometimes guys in the 47th round end up being a star.

And guys in the first round never play shit. So number one pick overall jimmy daryl fucking strawberry it's daryl strawberry there he is number one pick overall the number two pick never ever played in the majors by the way what so that's how tenuous baseball is in the draft the number five never even played number five pick never played in the majors either so two out of the top five picks never played in the majors. They just probably washed out in single A or double A or triple A or something? Yeah, just couldn't hack it.

Couldn't hack it. Yeah, they both were high school guys. High school guys are a risk because they're kids. You don't know how they're going to develop. They could turn into assholes. And one of the guys was a college player even. Just sometimes it doesn't work out for him so uh yeah also kelly gruber in that first round remember him on the blue jays kelly gruber there darnell coles i remember him too dennis rasmussen

the pitcher glenn wilson some guys also billy bean in that first round who was no kidding money ball guy he was drafted then yeah he's drafted in the first round same as that he was that hot shit of a prospect that fascinating it was in their system the Mets had and they said it for all of the tons of New York press it was Daryl and Billy Bean is the outfield of the future that's all we're gonna need we got our our whole outfield taken care of never even thought about Lenny Dykstra. And Billy Bean turned out to be shit. And Dykstra turned out to be that guy for him. So that's a weird thing.

Also, Danny Tartable that year. And also, Eric Davis. He was a great player. I think, like we said, his cousin in some way, shape, or form. I didn't know that he was that old. He never looked very. Eric Davis always looked good for his age. He's one of those guys.

I thought he was like a rookie in 93 when he was playing. He never looked very... Eric Davis always looked good for his age. He's one of those guys. I thought he was like a rookie in 93 when he was playing. Christ, I remember him in like 88-ish. I remember his baseball cards. Oil Can Boyd also in that draft. So we've talked about him plenty. Oil Can Boyd, we've talked about a shitload. Oh, Doug Drabeck as well.

Look at that. Really? Yeah, Doug Drabeck, Terry Steinbeck. Wow. Pirates? Drabeck? Yeah, Pirates in the early 90s doug drabeck on the pirates darren dalton who's crazy as a fucking shithouse rat nowadays yeah yeah oh boy was it the phillies that did that to him i i think living in philly that long i think he's been hitting the head it's that kind of got to right it's like what the fuck

because he's not happening i asked because rod was the one who pointed it out to me rod back by when he was alive back in the day he was like you heard daryl dalton's shit lately and i'm like no and he goes this shit's crazy and he looked it up and i was like oh my god what the fuck's wrong with daryl dalton he's like he was nor he wasn't that crazy before he He goes, I mean, he's never normal, he said, but he wasn't talking about aliens and shit. He wasn't crazy crazy. So, holy shit. Chris Sabo, too, with his fucking goggles. The only guy in the baseball field who wore goggles.

The hero of Cincinnati. Such a weird look for him. He shows up with a bald head and goggles, and you're like, the hell? What are you about to do? Are those bleachers in the outfield need welding? He shows up with a bald head and goggles, and you're like, the hell? What are you about to do? Is it bleachers in the outfield need a welding? What are you up to? What are you up to? What are you up to?

What are you up to? What are you up to? What are you up to? What are you up to? What are you up to? What are you up to? What you got your wood-burning goggles on for? What's happening there?

You mixing elements in the fucking dugout? Why didn't you do that? Either that or he tried to play basketball and couldn't, so they just put a hat on him. He's like, I'll keep these. They're prescription. Loves Kareem. This is all I have. And so Daryl gets drafted first overall, makes $200,000 right off the bat, they give him,

and a signing bonus. And he says, quote, I thought I was bigger than life and nobody could tell me nothing. Yeah. Yeah. You can't. I don't know how you wouldn't think that at 18. He gives you all that money and is like, you're the greatest. Of all the baseball players, you're number one, Darrell.

You're it. You're it. Here's a bunch of money. Now, be a good person and don't let it go to your head. Be a great guy and keep doing all that amazing stuff on the field that we like. Oh, my God. Keep being a superhero though he said that wasn't anything personal it was always because of the fact that i had been

controlled for so long now this was my outlet and this was where nobody was ever going to control me again okay nobody only cocaine will control me from now on nothing else but cocaine cocaine and women that i pay and things like that you know that'll and then even the ones that i don't oh my god daryl's got problems so by 1980 he's in the in the farm system here and he's still he's a fuck up still his work ethic is shitty they say he arrives late to the games pretty much all the time you're supposed to be there three hours before the game he's never it's always two and a half 245 but you're not allowed to do that there's a certain thing with baseball a lot of teams will you know fine you if you're late for that kind of shit so he kept doing it though um he even mystic just

didn't show up one day no call no show to baseball you can't do that no do that to the mets it's like yeah i mean it's not the mets it's the kingsport whatever the fuck of the appalachian league of the but it's their shit right yeah you they're paying you money to do this that's the problem you're getting a paycheck this isn't like a a rec league on the side you gotta be here this isn't a beer league for softball so he does that but they said that you know he basically they would just he'd find they'd find him and he'd just do it and then he'd show up late again he just didn't care find me fuck it i don't care so he hits pretty well he hits 268 with five home runs and 44 games for kingsport the rookie league not too shabby 81 they move him up to

lynchburg of um and uh single a and he plays 123 games there so you can kind of get a better sample size it's 255 with 13 home runs there you go not bad if you don't know when crystal pepsi was discontinued what was in al capone's vault or which famous meteorologist is Lenny Kravitz's second cousin, then you haven't spent enough time on Wikipedia. But that's okay. I am here for you. I'm Darcy Carden, and I'm inviting you to listen to my new podcast, WikiHole, from SmartList Media. Discover the craziest rabbit holes on Wikipedia with me and my funny friends as we bring the

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You can say anything. Judy Justice. Only on Freebie. 82, they move him up to double A. And that's when he starts really cranking it. He hits 283 that year uh with uh 34 home runs so that's you got a guy hitting almost 300 or 34 home runs in double a it's pretty good stuff that's double a's where all the talent is too over all the good pitching talent is so

he's going up against guys with good stuff and shit like that so that's really something to look at so 83 they're looking at possibly you know he's only going to play a little in the minors if he still looks good they're going to bring him up to the mets if they need him because the mets the mets suck at this point too yeah the 83 mets are 68 and 94 so they need help tough season to be a fan of something they need fucking help is what they need. Yeah, it's bad. So AAA in 1983, he hits.333 with three home runs in 16 games. So all threes, and they said, ah, fuck it.

It's like a slot machine. We've got to bring him up now. And the 83 team, too, it's got problems. Ron Hodges is the catcher. Keith Hernandez playing first base. They just got him from the Cardinals. Brian Giles playing second base. We know of Brian Giles.

Not that Brian. I think this is his dad. The other one's a junior. Jose Okendo. Hubie Brooks is the third baseman. George Foster, late in his career here, is, I mean, George Foster only had, oh, he had 28 home runs that year. God, he was a bad motherfucker. They were starting Mookie Wilson in center field.

Just not a great team at all here. So he, for the Mets, in 122 games, he hits.257 with 26 home runs. Wow. So for a rookie, that's great. And it's so great that it earns him the Rookie of the Year honors. Well, that's easy. Yeah, that's easy. On that team.

Yep. He's going to stand out. Fuck. Well, not just on the team, in the whole league, he's the rookie of the year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the minors, Billy Bean talked about how he didn't even look at being as good as Darryl. He thought he was amazing, and when he showed up, he was like, oh, God, i'm not half as talented as that guy like he was on another planet talent wise like holy shit that guy hits 500 foot home runs without even showing up to batting practice first like he's a fucking

beast whereas you know billy had to work and that kind of shit he more compared himself to lenny dykstra rather than daryl strawberry where where at first Daryl kind of hurt his confidence because when he showed up, he was like, yeah, I'm going to be the best. And then he was like, whoa, no, I'm not. I'm not even the best. I can't be better than that. I'm not the best on the Rookie League team.

This guy's way better than me. So he only makes $36,000, you know, prorated contract that year. $200,000 in the 37. Well, that was a signing bonus to $200,000. He makes $36,000 as then $37,000. $37,000, $36,000. That was a signing bonus, the $200,000. He makes $36,000 as his salary for this year. But that's fine because he's got $200,000 in the bank. Well, hopefully.

Well, yeah. He's still under a minor league contract, too, because he started there. So it's like a prorated less. It's weird the way the pay goes. 84, the Mets turn it all around. They go 90 and 72. Wow. They don't make the playoffs, but still around they turn they go 90 and 72 wow which is where they don't make the playoffs but still they do very very well um he is fined 500 for being late to batting practiced in august so that's uh the mets on the major league level they don't really fuck around

with that you know you can't miss things you better be here yeah they're paying you a lot of money and if you miss things it's in the newspaper so don't fuck up this is new york yeah yeah don't mess up they're looking for shit to talk about you so that year he plays in 147 games 251 with 26 home runs again same amount and he's an all-star this year's first all-star team and he makes 230 grand okay doing just fine 1985 things are going so well. Daryl says, damn it, let's keep this train rolling. I'm going to do something. I'm going to get married, of course.

Be wild. Let's do it. Let's do it. Fuck. So he marries Lisa. They've lived together and been together for about the last two years, two and a half years anyway. So he's like, might as well. So they get married

and uh there you go now 85 doc gooden has an incredible year yeah daryl has a great year the team goes 98 and 64 which doesn't get them in the playoffs what yeah no wild card back then that's why they put the wild card in because you'd have teams that went 98 and 64 that wouldn't make the playoffs that almost put a hundred wins on the board and they get nothing no home that's brutal man so no playoffs um june 11th 1985 daryl and lisa have a son a son is born a son is born yeah he's not gonna name him henry we know that much definitely not henry maybe he'll name him after one of his brothers maybe a little ronnie nope he is daryl jr you absolutely that's the one daryl jr here he is dude you could line daryl strawberry up all these episodes we've done all the rules all the things all this and that you could line all those up and make daryl strawberry

like you could dissect it as the like the the layout and the map for crime and sports it's every single thing except a teenager in his hit squad. Spoiler alert, he doesn't murder anybody. But other than that. Crime and sports. It's Darryl Strawberry. It's Darryl Strawberry. There you go. He could be the face of crime and sports. It's just all, it's everything.

That baby picture should be the face. It's adorable. It's so adorable. Jesus. So 111 games he plays in 85. He hits 277 with 29 home runs, which is great for 470 at-bats. That's not a lot of at-bats. He had 600 at-bats the year before and hit three home runs less. So that's really good. And he's an all-star again. So look at Darrell. Doing great.

Makes $516,667 that year. That is a bargain for that effort. That's the thing, too. The Mets are – baseball, you get a bargain for the first five years. And then after five years, then they're a free agent at that point. Yeah. Now you've got to pay up. Well, five years in the majors, but that's how it works before they become a free agent.

But otherwise, yeah, you get a bargain for a while. You really do. before they become a free agent. But otherwise, yeah, you get a bargain for a while. You really do. So in 1986 Mets, this is the famous Mets team that wins the Super Bowl, wins the Super Bowl. They won the Super Bowl and the NBA championship.

What year was it? They're also Stanley Cup champions this year. In 1984 they beat who? You wouldn't expect Doc Gooden to be a great ice skater, but he really is. It's impressive. No, they win the World Series this year. I was looking. In front of me is something they did that year, and it is they were, quote, inspired by the Super Bowl shuffle.

Okay? In other words, everybody after 1985 made a rap song. Remember Wrestle Rock Rumble? Yeah. It's the same exact thing. It's the same beat. It's the same thing. Da-da-da-da-ch. Da-da-da-da-ch.

They hired the same orchestra, the same DJ. Any stupid producer can put that crap together. It's the same fucking beat, and then they have terrible people who shouldn't be singing or rapping rap over things, which is embarrassing as fuck.

And it's so... George Foster's rapping on it he seems too old to rap yeah also it's a really weird thing but they record let's get metzmerized it's called oh yeah let's get metzmerized and it's just the chorus says get metzmerized get metzmerized no get metzmerized get metzmerized over and over again andetsmerized. Get Metsmerized. I hate it. Over and over again. And it's so weird, too.

There's nine of them in it. It's Lenny Dykstra's in it and Kevin Mitchell and Howard Johnson's in it for some reason. It's so weird, man. It's a weird looking album. They put out an album and everything. It's no good. There's three songs on the album. There is Get Metsmerized, obviously.

They have that, the regular version. The radio version, we'll say. The one that everyone's clamoring for. Well, it's the one that you know. It's the one that everyone knows. Yeah, it's the banger. We all know it. So you got that one.

Then they have the long version, which I don't know what the fuck goes on in a long version. If there's extra verses, I could only find the regular version. So I was very disappointed. I couldn't find like if like Mookie Wilson did. Jesus. It was like seven minutes long of get mesmerized. And we listened to it at the live show over the fucking, over the speaker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't get through a minute and 40 seconds of it before I'm like, okay, I got to turn this off.

I can't even understand, you know, George Foster, what the hell he's saying. And then it's just such a weird thing. Then they have the third track on the EP, I guess, is just an instrumental in case you want to freestyle over it. Maybe you want to pretend to be one of the Mets players. Think you're better? Think you can rap terribly over this beat? This basic bit beat? Throw on your foster jersey.

Get into it. Let's do it, motherfucker. Oh, my God. The team commissioned this song. It's composed by Lee Palmer. You know what his claim to fame is in music? No. The Meow Mix jingle. What what we got the meow mix guy

before this he wrote and i quote meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow that's that's what he wrote before yeah so when you have a musical talent before you like that, you know, you got to get whatever you can out of that brain. That's what he wrote. It's not a jingle. I guess that is a jingle. Yeah, it's not a song. You couldn't get the Bimennan guy?

He was, dude, he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't do it. He't do he did the super bowl shuffle and he was like listen you know what that's what i've done in that genre i've made my mark i've laid my my i've laid my pipe now it's done and um yeah that's what it is meow mix guy that feels like bottom rung like the mentos guy at least wrote a whole song yeah but this is not as catchy as this though you know what i mean that's the word babe that's the genius it's just me and it's catchy we all know it i just sang the whole thing from memory from 1989 i mean i guess you could do that i'm impressed you got all the lyrics i'm beyond it's i got it down perfect it's it's a tough one but i it's my

karaoke go-to really so i should know it by now but yeah i i would like to see the internal discussion of that and like we're making a song all right yeah i mean work for the bears and you know the awa wrestling seem to work for them sure why not let's get a song going all right well find somebody cool and the guy comes back in the office. He's like, all right, everybody sitting down? Everybody good? Sandwich is down for a minute. This is exciting.

I have exciting news. I got a composer. No shit? Who'd you get? Who'd you get? Okay, now. I'm not even going to tell you. Listen to this song.

Click. And they're like, you got the fucking meow mix, guy? High five, High five. High five. Fuck yeah, baby. They were probably jacked about it. Yeah. Oh, man.

The Meow Mix guy? Dope. That's fucking awesome. They were like just bumping dicks and shit. Like, yeah. Losing their mind. Losing their mind. I can't wait to see them.

Oh, it's going to be amazing. So they ended up making a four minute video out of this or no that's that one before it's it's so fucking bad so before there's a four minute video which they played on the shea stadium diamond vision in late four minutes of that with everybody watching no no that's not let's get metzmerized is a different one there's another song called let's it's just a video called let's Go Mets where it's like, you know, pumping up the whole crowd. In that is Gene Shalit, the film critic, and Howard Stern is also in that. Yeah, Howard Stern in there.

What? He's involved in the Let's Go Mets video there. Oh, Howard. By the way, Let's Get M get metzmerized you'd imagine nobody probably bought that right right that went triple platinum what i've never seen jimmy more surprised in my life if i told jimmy i was actually from the planet neptune he would not have been more surprised than if i just told him that get mesmerized went triple platinum.

Why do you have to buy that? Once you hear it, you go, okay, I know what that is now. I don't need, you're going to play that at home? Just bop it. Yeah. Whoa, wait, rewind it, man. No, George Foster's verse again. Let's hear it.

What the fuck are you talking about? Triple platinum. I want to hear not another word from kid rock about being triple flat triple platinum get metzmerized so anybody who's a triple platinum recording artist just know it's not that impressive so is lenny dykstra say that's fine lenny dykstra has a triple platinum rap album so that's how important that shit is exactly right there howard johnson did it yeah triple a bald a bald white man who's 24 years old is a triple platinum rapper so it's not hard apparently to be triple platinum and things triple plat baby eat shit kid rock oh my god so in 86 um like this team is

much better now they like i said they got like kevin mitchell on there they got gary carter from the expos a few more pieces in place that they needed to become a good team and of course doc couldn't pitch in and you know david cone Cohn. They're nasty at that point. So Lenny Dykstra, obviously, in there as well, as we've talked about. Now, Lenny Dykstra is very famous for talking about Daryl's penis. Let's hear what Lenny has to say about Daryl's penis. Because, you know, who's not curious here what he has to say? You know, a guy that, if we're're gonna trust anybody to be honest about a penis i'm going with lenny

if he's given someone credit for his for his fucking cock i think it's probably real that's the thing yeah yeah he's actually seen it it's not some weird conspiracy or something like he gets into another thing so lenny's loves penises oh yeah big time like just like stevie's love frogs loves frogs he says quote that guy was hung like a swamp mule the noble swamp mule that we've all we've all heard tell about like a swamp mule he had a hammer from hell hell yeah i want that tattooed quote it was traumatizing imagine having someone say that about your penis that'd be wonderful i don't know i don't know what what uh personality lenny put into that whether it was like excitement or if it was like he had a swamp mule hammer from hell. Oh, I've heard him say this.

It was traumatizing. No, no. That guy's hung like a swamp mule, had a hammer from hell. It was traumatizing. He's just like, damn, big old dick. That's Lenny's attitude. It was traumatizing. Big old cock.

That's what I'm thinking about. So there you go. The 86 Mets are 108 wins and 54 losses. Just fucking really good. They beat the Astros in the NLCS, and they go on to play the Red Sox in the 86 World Series, which is the famous World Series we've talked about many times here, where they win the World Series.

Yay, everybody's very happy there for them. And Darryl himself hits.259 with 27 homers, 93 ribbies, and he's an all-star again. Fantastic. Can't complain. So far, his home runs have been 26, 26, 29, 27. And a ring. You know what you're getting from Darryl, basically. Yeah, he's got a ring at this point.

$945,000. There's this picture that they do, photo layout for him with him and his wife and he's like standing there leaning back against his expensive car in his met uniform with his arm around his pretty wife with their big house in the background it just looks so wonderful his big fat world series ring yeah grace we're gonna say gary it's grace now daryl it's it's as good as it's gonna get for you sir sure the world is his it's his oyster it's his fucking the world is his pussy at this point and he's just got his hammer from hell is about to dip in it that's what it is the world is his dragging it across it up and down

it's his willing horny woman that's what the world is for him right now. And he is just planting his dick in every goddamn glory hole he can find. His dick just perpetually is just dripping wet. That's what it is. It's always got from some activity. Always. He carries around a hand towel just to dry it off once in a while so the skin doesn't get raw. You know what I mean? Jesus Christ.

Life is good. So the problem is things aren't great at home. This picture doesn't really speak to the actual inside problems that they're having. She, Lisa, says that Daryl has been beating the shit out of her on a regular basis. Oh, yeah. He's going full Henry. He comes home drunk been beating the shit out of her on a regular basis. Oh, yeah. He's going full Henry. He comes home drunk and beats the shit out of her. Asshole.

Yep. He says he didn't. But the problem is she had a broken nose in Houston during the NLCS. And the cops were, I guess the cops came to another Long Island bout that they had, some sort of domestic problem. I don't know. But she says Lisa's claim is that he broke her nose when he came back to the hotel room in Houston after this is, it could only be this really. The Mets set up a private party room for the ball club. Let's not get in trouble, guys.

We're going to set up a private room, just you guys, so nobody will bug you. Then you go back to the hotel.'s not get in trouble guys we're gonna set up a private room just you guys so nobody will bug you then you go back to the hotel who could get in trouble doing that daryl strawberry uh maybe it's because first of all the bar they chose to have a private room at is cooters it's called so when you go to cooters you expect someone's getting arrested before the end of the night probably or at least yeah the cops are getting called or or very cheap blow jobs are being doled out oh yeah cooters you can get you can get you a blow job for 40 45 dollars that's not a problem i mean that's who on the payroll at the mets chose that as the... Cooters. Y'all heard of Cooters? That's a good one. You're going to like it there.

So apparently at Cooters, Ron Darling, Tim Tuffle, Bob Ojeda, and Rick Aguilera got in a little scuffle with the bouncers at Cooters. They're real strict at Cooters. I mean, you know how it is there. Cooters is the place to showcase tits. Here we showcase all the giner. That's what I mean. So you got to step back from the stage.

Oh, she's a gusher, that one. You're going to want to get real back a little bit farther. That's a Shamu splash zone. That's in the splash zone, son. We do offer ponchos if the need should arise, if you'd like that. But still, I wouldn't advise the first couple rows if you're sensitive to that sort of thing. Chock full of hepatitis, too. I do tell you that.

Welcome to Cooters. Here's your poncho. Here's your poncho. Cooters does not sound like a nice place. I don't think I want to go to Cooters does not sound like a nice place i don't want to go there i don't think i want to go to cooters it sounds like all the bars in nashville that we just fucking came back from nashville that place all the bars are like you know they're all euphemisms for vaginas every bar name isn't it every single one is like all the ones with billboards are yeah that's for sure yeah they're all just vaginal euphemisms that's all they are come here where there's pussy that

might as well be the billboard we have women plied with alcohol here come if you don't if you don't go out and you just use the billboards as an indicator of what that town's about, you will turn around and get right back on a fucking plane. And then if you actually explore the place, you'll run quick, even faster to the airport and get the fuck out of there. Because you're like, oh no, it's even worse. I thought it was a scummy bar called Cooters, but it's actually a shiny bar called Cooters where they turn you upside down and shake the change from your pockets. Because drinks are $12.

You think it's one sort of shitty, and then it's another completely new, a surprise sort of shitty, that city. It's amazing. Oh, no, it's terrible that direction. I thought it was terrible like this. Totally missed the point there i went to a bar on broadway and drank for eight hours and it cost me 80 it was so cheap that's pretty cheap well yeah you went to you found like a less populated you didn't go to like a place where no i went to the roof yeah yeah sat in a corner less groups of women who all just bought the same pink cowboy hat together less groups of those and white boots what is that that seems to be a very popular thing

oh yeah everybody with white boots not a scuff on them what the fuck brand new well their hats brand new no sweat it's 96 degrees and humid there's not a sweat mark on their hat you just bought that you just bought that if you wear that for an hour you're gonna look like fucking willie nelson and you know it that's a shit it's gonna do sweaty and dirty like toby keith you bastard gonna be dirty and your hair is gonna droop fucking ridiculous yeah so anyway that's what ended up happening they said that uh daryl came back and she said beat the shit out of her broke her nose after apparently he was denied at cooters i'm sure i'm very angry do you believe it was a punch or was it like an instrument that he hit

her with she said he she said he punched her yeah he got her in the nose punch a woman in the face that's really going hard man that's a little much i think yeah you think you think we're being obviously sarcastic it's a lot much it's fucking ridiculous oh yeah he's a lot bigger than her too not ones that are smaller than you are the only ones that should take punches are as if you're in a sanctioned fight in a ring and you're both trained for it and she said i'll take his punch then you go well i mean you want to get she wants to get fucking fine then i'll punch her that's it otherwise don't punch women so let's get punched i'll punch that's i mean we're both getting paid it's all sanctioned there's a doctor standing by going no go ahead punch her i'll check her out if

you heard i guess we're punching each other then and she can punch back and she knows it's coming that's the other thing yeah you know that's the other thing that's a big part of it she volunteered for it is the third thing that's a really important part other than that i don't know another situation where it's cool to hit a you should hit a woman really i can't think of one oh god it's uh it's so crazy i don't know it's an interesting thing there so 87 januaryth, 87 here. She files for legal separation. Not quite divorce yet, but separation. Let's think it over. Yeah.

Restraining order as well. He's not allowed to come within 100 yards of her mother's home where she's staying. And she also wants sole legal custody of Daryl Jr. as well. And she'd like some child and spousal support at this time, too, to get her by. Sure. Obviously. And just to pay the bills. Now, they said, well, what are your bills? I mean, that's reasonable. What are your expenses? She said, well, monthly expenses, thirty one thousand five hundred fifty dollars should cover it.

Huh? Say again? She said, well, he makes $65,000 a month, so that should be okay. That shouldn't be a problem for him. He should be good. He's good. He's got that, too. $31,000 in fucking 1987.

That's a lot. That's an exorbitant amount. I can't even imagine what you could spend $31,550 a dollars a month on now so much money yeah right now not even like we went to fucking paris and stayed in a beautiful hotel for that month like just regular bills my my electric bill is twelve thousand dollars every month obviously so that what the fuck what are you doing for that i don't understand my mortgage is 14 grand yeah what's i mean what is that and even that okay well then how do you make up the rest of the bills to be another 17 000 how does that work holy shit i mean i guess you punch her in the

nose she's taken half that's the the bottom line of it that's what it is i you know at this point you go yeah i mean that's don't punch your wife in the nose yeah you have a better case he's doing nothing for for for guys that that are trying to not pay as much by yeah punching her and giving her all the reason in the world to get it that's fucking crazy um so yeah that's what she she made a she had a signed statement attached to her petition for separation talking about him being shit face coming home punching her in the nose she also said that the month before this in her in their new york city condominium this was in front of their son uh daryl became angry at her because she didn't want to go out with him that night yeah

he wanted to go out and party and she was like i'm tired baby blah blah blah and he got mad and threw a picture frame at her a brass picture frame hit her in the elbow and bruised it and the glass part fell out and so he picked that up and threw it at her too take this too take that with you too um yeah uh that's the dangerous part fuck yeah yeah it didn't break luckily but i bruised her in the right thigh. And she said another incident happened right after the Super Bowl that just happened where she said Daryl was real fucked up and he came to her mother's house where he's not allowed to be. Or now he's not allowed to be, but he was at the time. Showed up at her mother's house and screamed at her in front of their son, yelled at her, screamed at her, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

She's like, what the fuck? And then he ran inside and grabbed her purse and ran away. Daryl. Daryl. What the fuck? What are you doing, Daryl? Matches my shoes. This is the only bag I can find that matches those pumps.

I'm taking it. I'm sorry. You know how that is. It's pumps. I'm taking it. I'm sorry. You know how that is. It's fuck. I bought them together. They're a set. So what is that weird thing, too? It's a bizarre move.

We've had that several times on Crime and Sports where there'll be an argument and the guy just goes, oh, yeah, and then just takes a purse and then runs away with it. They all run away with it and leave. It's a scenario now. Yeah, running away with a purse, which is the strangest thing in the world. Imagine if you're just outside your house, you're trimming your bushes, and you just see Daryl Strawberry sprint by

with a purse in his hand. Yeah, David Spade, what? David Spade, what? I don't think David Spade's involved in this at all. No, I was saying. You can't get any more different from Daryl Strawberry than David Spade. I think if you said, at all but you know you can't get any more different than from daryl strawberry than david spade i think if you said show me opposite humans you go ha right and i go yeah there you go there

you go daryl strawberry running by with a cape spade that's where i was trying to go and i had d for daryl and Spade. That's David Spade. Oh, my God. That's fucking hilarious. It's a long one. It works. I get it.

It works out. So she said he later returned and brought the purse back, but without, he stole her credit cards, $400 in cash, and two bracelets from her, though. Sans valuables. Yeah, just jacked her and and was like here's the shell of your stuff you can have the spade i don't give a shit i don't give a fuck about that i have my own purses i i can i'm capable of buying a purse so yeah she's file all these court papers and all this shit she wants 31 000 and change this bleeds into the season 1987 the team goes 92 and 70 good record no playoffs again unbelievable that's tough and there's some bad things this year he is fined 250 dollars for arriving late at a game at wrigley field um he arrived 22 minutes late for batting practice so he gets a 250 fine and then later on he this is a fucking awesome uh lee

mazilli and wally backman now lee mazilli is around still he's a coach all over the place in different teams he coached for the yankees for a long time as a met coach and wally backman's everywhere too he got he's the i think the shortest tenured manager in the history of major league baseball if i'm not mistaken well yeah he was hired never in the history of Major League Baseball, if I'm not mistaken. Well, yeah, he was hired in the offseason, never managed a game and got fired like the next day. I don't think anyone's ever done that before. Well done, Wally. To be fired without losing a game is impressive.

Has that ever happened in the history of sports? I don't think so. I doubt it. That's amazing. But at the time, they were all in the Mets, and apparently they went to the media and criticized darryl for missing two games okay they said well he should have been here and blah blah blah so darryl got mad and said specifically of wally backman that he quote

well he wanted to quote bust that little redneck which is hilarious so pretty solid quote. That's a great quote. This year, 87, though, on the field, he's kicking ass. He hits 284 with 39 home runs. Not bad. That is a lot of fucking homers, man. That's cranking it.

Yeah, very, very good. He's an all-star, and he's sixth in the MVP voting as well. So doing well. He makes $1,245,000 this year as well, making the dough. His wife's like, good, you know my expenses are now $78,000 a month.

So 1988 here, this is fucking funny. At the beginning of 88, in an interview with Esquire magazine, he criticizes both his manager and several of his teammates kind of a little payback here he blames them for the team's failure in 1987 he claimed that gary carter and keith hernandez quit on the team during the pennant race and that davy johnson's terrible managing cost him some, and that's what cost him the pennant, which is possible.

But it causes, in 1988 spring training, a giant melee and a brawl on the baseball field between meth players. Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry go at each other, and the picture of it is fucking hilarious. Because Keith Hernandez is reaching, trying to kill him and like people are holding him back and there's one guy while he's holding back he's staring right into the camera lens like he noticed oh shit someone's taking a picture of this right at that time fuck damn it it was hilarious to watch so taylor swift is soaring high her every move captured in the news cycle and devoured by her devoted fans. She's broken billboard records and made Grammys history, not to mention becoming a billionaire in the process.

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canceled out or something so they finish first in the al east and they go to the playoffs and they go against the dodgers and this is that dodger team where kirk gibson hits that home run and limps around the bases and so you weren't beating them they lose to the Dodgers in seven games mind you too wow yeah it's a long one and uh he keeps by the way he's on the Sports Illustrated cover like every year he's he's look man appeal the visual aspect of that man is fantastic and he looks great on a cover and he plays for a major market, and there's a lot of publicity about the team because there's strife and shit. So you put Daryl on there, people either like Daryl or they hate Daryl. Either way, they're like, ooh, I want to read about Daryl.

So it works, 88 right in the beginning of the season, 87, him and Mattingly split a cover. And then it's 86, 85, every year he's been on even in 80 and 84 he was on the cover right away he was shirtless in the cover they had him shirtless like holding a bat with wristbands on it looked really weird it's creepy looking so uh june 28th 1988 daryl and lisa are all good now. Everything's fine. Back together. Patched things all up. No more stealing purses. No more punching noses. Everything's fine. And they have a daughter together

that time. So, yeah, they have a daughter. Diamond Nicole is her name. So, yeah, there's that. Now, that's sweet, right? That's sweet. That's nice. Get back together after some strife and some boxing together. That's good.

That's really nice. We're going to bury the hatchet and have a baby. We're going to bury the hatchet and the hammer from hell. And the hammer from hell. And you're going to sit back. And now that you have two kids, it's time to be a family man. You know what I mean? Well, it is cute.

It's so sweet that he couldn't help but do it again. And that same month that Diamond Nicole is born, another woman named Lisa, a woman named Lisa Clayton, claims that she had his daughter that same month. He gave Diamond a sibling. There you go. Hey, they're twins, sort of, huh? What do you say? No? Fuck.

Okay. That's not good. So, yeah, that's what happens. They're more on that in a moment. We'll let that hang in a minute because they have to. He's going to go, no, that's not my kid. I don't know what you're talking about. We'll work all that out.

88 season, Darryl hits 269 with, again, 39 homers. Jesus Christ. He's very consistent. He's an all-star again again and he's second in the MVP voting wow almost the MVP god damn that's MVP of the league of the league of the National League

not bad 1,320,000 dollars that year too not too fucking shabby 1989 he walks out of camp in a contract dispute. So he threatens to sit out the 1990 season. Really?

I'll sit out if they don't give me the money I want. Yeah. Yeah, I'll go into my dick modeling career. Don't you know that? Yeah. Sell my cock as a paperweight for people. It would be great. I'll make some dough here.

The next day, he doesn't attend a workout, so they fine him. And then he's like, okay, fine, I'll come back the next day. So he does. Now, right at opening day, too, this happens. He's actually named in the lawsuit, and that Lisa Clayton woman sues him for paternity right in like opening day too. So it's really good pub for him. It's excellent.

Now, uh, yeah, she's going to sue him. She is seeking about $11,000 a month in child support. What? 11 grand a month she wants for the child support. Um, she's from St. Louis here. So that's where he met her um yeah there her lawyer says we believe he's he's the father obviously or we wouldn't have fucking filed it 11 grand is that 11 grand in 1988 apparently if you're a fucking second in the mvp voting

yeah you're paying something you're not getting they're not like all he needs like five six hundred they want money from you. But that kid's not even used to the good pampers yet. Well, we're going to get him used to them right off the bat. This little strawberry ass is going to be pampered and pampers, sir. So, yeah, she says that they she hadn't been able to reach him and they haven't been able to work anything out. And her lawyer said, we tried to negotiate something, but it didn't work out. And yeah, she's also seeking expenses and hospital reimbursement and all that kind of shit there.

So everything. Oh, that's what it is. She's not seeking that. Under Missouri child support guidelines 1.4 million dollar salary would be entitle her to about eleven thousand six hundred dollars a month wow that's that's that's how they do it so um yeah she said that she didn't want to talk to reporters about the lawsuit and she doesn't talk to reporters about the lawsuit at first so it just kind of happens here um so Jesus Christ um they said she uh she's like she works she has a job and her lawyer says she makes kind of a minimal salary his lawyer claims that they were platonic friends

for about three years yeah and then when they were he was separated from his wife then they had a more of a relationship so they had did have a relationship. Sure. They did have a relationship, but it was only, you know, baseball players usually have platonic, they're usually platonic friends with attractive young women in road cities. That's what they do. They come over to their house, they just sit and watch some movies and eat popcorn, and they go back to their hotel room and jerk off. That's what happens.

That's not, right? That's what athletes do. Athletes are real good platonic friends my ass he's got a whole team full of platonic friends it's not what he needs yeah starting nine are platonic yeah this is this is asinine and said it was only while we were separated you know although my wife and her had the baby a week apart from each other. So explain that, Daryl. We've got some explaining to do, sir. Lisa called right after I dumped a whole bunch of Daryl's strawberry inside.

I dumped a whole bunch of strawberry seeds in her, and then that was that. And then she called, and I was like, listen, I've got to go. I'm going to dry this off and head on home. That's fucking great, man. So, yep, Daryl is just going gonna kind of blow that off um now the team that year by the way goes 87 and 75 and 89 no playoffs for them may 1989 may 18th lisa files for divorce now oh she's had enough again now she's had enough and now he says fine we'll get a divorce i guess they tried it again it's not working out he's like i really do like i really do like fucking road strange i really do i'm sorry i like to drop the hammer

she doesn't quote doesn't care for it when i do that it's i feel like we have different needs in life and different wants in our future when i come home oh yeah i mean i come home i mean yeah my dick's soaking wet obviously but what do you expect from it? You know, I'm on Sports Illustrated all the time. This is easy. All right. He said, there's no hard feelings. We just felt this was the best thing to do. Oh, my God.

He then says, this is fucking awesome. Quote, maybe I shouldn't have gotten married so young. I never knew things would happen so fast for me that I was going to be a top-notch player so soon. Lisa, she was a nice young lady, and I don't think she was ready for what being a ballplayer's wife was all about. It's her fault. I don't think she was ready for me to, you know, cheat on her. I don't think she was ready for me to leave her hospital room to go to the one next door where my other baby was being born. I don't think she was ready for that, which is sad because if she i think it could have worked out what the fuck are you talking about sorry d junior

yeah she doesn't she wasn't ready for me to come home shit face from cooters and punch her in the nose isn't that i mean some women are not ready some ladies are set up for things and some just aren't i mean shit i'm sorry but i had to move on is he out of his fucking mind and it's because i got married too young and she's just not ready for that she's that she's not ready for me to treat her like complete shit you know the excuses of blaming it on her and the only thing i did wrong was get married too young i just got married too young and didn't change any of my premarital behavior at all, by the way. Oh, and I hit her as well.

That's all I have to do. And I hit women. And I punch at women in the nose with cooters on, the smell of cooters on my fucking clothes. And then a little bit later, I'm going to rob her after I lose money at a Super Bowl

party probably. yeah, exactly. I bought five squares, man. It was fucking too many. None of them paid off. It was bullshit. I thought I had it on the fucking Patriots scoring seven in the second quarter, but it didn't work. Give me a Marc Jacobs. God damn it.

So he says, so many people out there trying to meet me talk to me and i think lisa lost a little trust in the situation you had a kid the same week with a different woman yes she lost trust in that who the fuck wouldn't james it's because they want to talk to me they want to talk to me yeah you know a lot of all these platonic friends they want to talk to me. They want to talk to me, meet me. Yeah, you know, all these platonic friends. They talk. We like to hang out. I mean, I belong to several book clubs. Most of them are ladies in there.

That's just all it is. I go to Pilates. I can't hear people unless they speak into the mic. Yeah, so things happen. Wow. He said, if she'd call my hotel room and I wasn't in you know uh i'm not saying i was i was doing anything wrong but sometimes women think differently than men if she called my hotel in the middle of the night and i didn't answer the phone i wasn't like i was doing anything women

just think differently and this is we're not like all like fucking crazy like um you know i don't know how to put it but we're not like hey men are always wrong and women are all we're not like all like fucking crazy like um you know i don't know how to put it but we're not like hey men are always wrong and women are all we're not like that we try to play it down if you're right you're right and if you're wrong you're wrong and he's fucking wrong as wrong as wrong can be i don't know facts matter maybe lisa's an asshole that's possible but none of that matters to all of this in the situation of a marriage you've cheated on her to the point of impregnation of other people and broken a part of her body with your fist. With timing that lines up with you are fucking her at the same time. You can't.

This is not good. You can't act like you're a good guy and then you gotta go she just wasn't ready for that for what be not even for being married to me for being a ball player's wife so he think about the language he distanced himself from all that shit he just made that a ball player's wife so that's a ball player. Not me. I'm Gerald Strawberry. But a ball player's wife, that's what that is. All the bad things I do are what it is. That's the job description. And she couldn't measure up to that.

But, you know, that's how it works. Wow. What a fucking asshole. He then says, she just assumed girls were after me all the time. Yep. Because they are. And you're willing to take them in. Yeah, you are and they are.

So wonderful. An 89 on the field. He only hits 225, but he does have 29 homers. So he is an all-star as well because people are used to voting for him, and he could have had a good first half of the year. So he makes $1,495,000 that year, though. Now, January 24th, 1990, blood tests officially established that Daryl is, in fact, the father of Lisa Clayton's baby. So that's all true. And he admits to it.

He says, yeah, I did it. That's right. That's fine. So he's going to give her some money. And her lawyer said he has admitted paternity. And now it's only a question of how much the court is going to allow Lisa for child support. So that's that. Now, January 26, 1990, things aren't going great right now.

No. They're not going well, especially publicly. Like his public image at this point is bad. This is when people were just chanting Daryl, Daryl, Daryl all over again, over and over again, and making him fucking crazy. And he would, like, yell at the crowd and shit. And they really pissed him off. Yeah. Just Daryl.

The whole sections would chant it for fucking the whole time. It would drive him crazy. They were doing it to fuck with him because people would do it in other parks and the daryl and he would get he would fucking act like it got all pissed he was mad about it so people would do it more it's like hey what the fuck bro like they're okay they're a wrestler you're the crowd if they do some mean shit and you don't react to it they'll switch the tactics if you go boo they're gonna do that more because they want you to boo dummy they they're enjoying torturing you stupid so um this day january 26 1990 he is arrested uh-oh uh for jesus christ this is him and and Lisa again are together, apparently,

and he's arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. Jesus. During an argument, apparently he's alleged to have hit her in the face with an open hand. This is the way I guess it went down. Police officers respond at 3.45 a.m., which is, we know it. That's argument time. That's an argument time. After a report of domestic violence, apparently they got into an argument.

He slapped her. Then she grabbed a metal rod of some kind and hit him in the ribs with it. So he pulled out a.25 caliber fucking semi-automatic on her. Oh, my God. He pulled a pistol on her. Yeah. Like, what's up so yeah that's that's how this escalated smack rod gun holy they missed so many steps wow that got

from open hand to gunplay yeah in one step is a fucking huge escalation i would say much yeah wow that's crazy so um, that's how that is. He's going to be charged there. The semi-automatic pistol was actually registered to Lisa as well. She had no – it was an open-handed slap, so she didn't have a lot of visual injuries or anything like that. Strawberry had bruises on his ribcage and wrist from being hit with the rod. Later on, these charges will be dropped for some reason. This might be the reason.

LAPD Commander William Booth said, quote, I don't know whether she dropped the charges or not. I know that they were back together. He bailed out and they were back together right away. This is, fuck, man. I'm sorry, baby. I didn't mean it. This is crazy.

Why is your dick wet? Don't worry worry about it let's just go home so um two days before this is actually two days after the blood test established the paternity so you know where this fight came from yeah um now they were going to hold a hearing later on because she dropped those charges. But then L.A. said the L.A. County said they were going to hold a hearing to decide whether they were going to file their own charges against him for some kind of misdemeanor shit. The next day after that's announced, he enters alcohol rehabs, an alcohol rehab center. What if I do this? What if I. Yeah.

Let's skip a step. Yeah. We'll go to court. You'll say go to rehab. How about if I just go to rehab and we don'll go to court you'll say go to rehab how about if i just go to rehab and we don't go to court so the la city lawyers say they're going to delay the decision on filing charges until he gets out of rehab so he played it exactly like he wanted to march 9th 1990 after meeting with the city attorney and hearing everything here the prosecutors concluded that

his drinking problem was the cause of the fight. It's not him. It was the booze. Remove the booze from it. All is good. All is well. So he's gotten to rehab. So we think he's good now. He's good now. We're fine. Everything is

fine. Nobody worry about shit. So that's pretty fucking wild. The the mets come out and make a statement saying yeah he's going to counseling and he's the mets said that they're going to assess the need for further progress reports on his alcohol they're really going to monitor it closely because they're concerned for his health and well-being obviously keep an eye on the situation yeah they said this is one of the team people here. Mr. Strawberry was especially frank with us in discussing both the incident, the events leading up to the incident, and his problems with alcohol, which, in our judgment, lies at the root of the family problems which resulted in his arrest. We're supportive of any individual's efforts to deal effectively with the problems of chemical dependency, which invariably leads to acts of violence.

So that's said by. Who do you think? A very important manager of the team. That's said by the district attorney's office. Oh, Jesus. That's the district attorney's office statement right there. They're the ones that are going to monitor. That's that's what they said.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Further progress reports to, you know, see if they need to whatever and that's not good yeah yeah but that's what they said that sounded like his publicist said that yeah dude this is fucking crazy he's being nice to him this is crazy no charges filed none none okay nothing everybody's fine so a gun's around you're fine good now what are we talking about misunderstanding hey everybody's fine nobody's upset about it let's just move on okay this is fucking insane this is the same time by the way what was it new year's

eve 91 i believe or 92 where the oj simpson thing happened so this if you were famous in los angeles at this time you could just do whatever the fuck you want and if you were a celebrity you just got away with it that's how it was away yeah that's with oj and his wife they came over on new year's eve and he was like yeah you know how women are and she was like all fucking bruised and shit and they're like yeah we know what you mean buddy let's have beers later like, what? That's how it was back then. So anyway, 1990 season, Darryl's on the cover of Sports Illustrated in May again. So he's doing it. Team goes 91 and 71 this year.

They were decent, but no playoffs for them anyway. Now they're negotiating his new contract. That's the big deal. And they offer him an amount of money, and he says no, and then they offer more, and he says no. And finally, the team says, well, we're not going to give him what he wants. They're offering him a three-year deal. He wants a five-year deal. And they said that basically, we don't feel that five-year contracts are in the best interest of the team. We're not giving anybody a five-year contract.

Who knows what's going to happen. And also, in the press, Darryl's been saying, well, I mean, if they don't like me, I can always go to L.A., L.A., L.A., because he wants to go home. Because as we all know from crime and sports, that's always a good move. Tie tail at home. And the general manager finally says, when you hear someone say Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles so many times, you feel like you're swimming upstream.

So the Mets and then Darryl break off their negotiations, basically. So there's that. He rejects a three-year $9.2 million deal. Is that right? It's off the table. It's off the table. And the the fucking what's his name? The the general manager also went on TV over the summer and said that he didn't think Darrell was a five million dollar a year player. Oh, shit. He also even if he doesn't think that you don't say that on TV.

That's the problem is the issue there. So guarantees they're not going to pay you. That's not good. Yeah, that didn't work out. Darrell,, though, here, he hits.277 with 37 home runs this year in 1990. He does fucking great. I mean, it's a bad time to say we don't think he's that great of a player when he's cranking home runs out like that. When he's that great of a player. Yeah, exactly. He's an all-star. He's been an all-star every year since 84.

Wow. From 84 on, he's an all-star, and he's also thirdstar every year since 84 wow 84 on he's an all-star and he's also third in the mvp voting that year so holy shit fucking impressive 1 million 850 thousand dollars and on the first day he can he files for free agency so free agent and uh about a week later he signs a deal with los angeles dodgers so he's going home breaking another rule very good uh he signs a deal with Los Angeles Dodgers. So he's going home, breaking another rule. Very good. He signs a five-year, $20.25 million contract with the Dodgers. Not bad.

It's about $4 million a year. And this will make him the second highest paid baseball player in history at the time. Yeah, and he quadrupled his money. Fuck yeah, he did. And he got more than twice as much from what the Mets were offering him. So that's all guaranteed. And Jose Canseco had a five-year, $23.5 million deal at the time. He's second only to Jose.

Yeah, Jose was hitting. He was raking. He was an MVP going with 40-40. He was having 40-40 seasons. You can't really say you're in that. His numbers were insane at that point. So Darryl, he's going to make $1.5 million signing bonus. That's nice.

And then salaries of $3.5 million, $3.75 million, $3.5 million, $3 million, and then $5 million is the last season. Beautiful. With change for whatever. So everybody said they can't wait to have him. The Dodgers are so excited. Tommy Lasorda, the manager, says Darryl Strawberry is an outstanding player. He's proven over the years that he can drive in runs and do the job.

He can play anywhere he wants. Yeah, yeah. They love him, so they can't wait. The one guy here, this is the general manager of the Dodgers, he said he's going to be a very significant part of the Dodger organization for years to come. We really feel Darryl's best years are the years in front of him. And Strawberry deserves a long-term, big-money deal regardless of the risk. Sure.

Regardless of what he'll do. And they also compared him to, they said, this is just like when the Kings signed Wayne Gretzky a couple years ago. Is it? I don't think so. I don't think it is no daryl strawberry isn't you know the greatest scorer ever to live i don't think so does daryl strawberry own a baseball team right now and like matter to everything no no no no that right. They're talking about him playing center field. Maybe he'll play center field. We'll figure that out, which is a weird one here. Dwight Gooden's very sad to see Daryl go.

He says, we can't fool ourselves. It's going to be hard to win without him. We're not intimidating without Daryl. We're not the same team without him. We can't be picked to finish first anymore. Nobody's going to be scared of us anymore i can't believe he's gone oh jesus it sounds like he he came home from work and all of his clothes were taken out of the closet listen man that bulge was intimidating to the other team every time we walked every time we took the field jesus like a 10th man on the field no shit um

and he said he wants eric dav Davis to sign with the Dodgers too. He wants to be able to play with Eric Davis. So he says his best friend at this point as well. So the Dodgers this year. So the team that year goes 93 and 69. They do not make the playoffs with 93 wins, which is tough. He, again, May 91, he's on the cover of Sports Illustrated. It's every May he's on the cover of Sports Illustrated.'s every May he's on the cover of World of Sports Illustrated they have like that

lots are Daryl issue I guess that year he hits 265 with 28 home runs so it's pretty much what he does he's an all-star as well so not too bad and he makes 3.8 million dollars as well so not too

fucking shabby now he appears that year in one of the more famous things he appears in the homer at the bat episode of the simpsons which is where mr burns puts together a softball team it's supposed to be like the company softball team but he goes out and hires the you know the nine best yeah he hires it's like's like Wade Boggs and Don Mattingly, Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens, Ken Griffey Jr., Ozzie Smith, Steve Sachs, Mike Socia. Yeah, that's the softball team. So here's our new safety inspector, Mike Socia. Shit like that is ridiculous. And that was when Griffey had gigantism because he drank Mr. Burns nerve tonic. His head was all swollen. He was in a wheelchair and shit. But in that one, the whole point is Daryl Strawberry, every time he comes up to bat, he swings and he hits the ball

like it goes out of view. It's so far. He hits it to the next town every single time. And then at the end, Mr. Burns pinch hits for Daryl Strawberry because of the righty lefty. That's a left-handed pitcher. So he puts Homer into the game there. And Darryl Strawberry is very mad.

And during the game, though, people are chanting Darryl, Darryl at him. And there's a famous shot of him with a tear in his eye. His little cartoon Darryl, a little tear comes down his eye when there's chanting Darryl, Darryl. And that's become a huge thing like he autographs it all the time it's a picture yeah he yeah that's one of his things that he signs is the the simpsons thing with the tear coming down people love that shit so it's fucking funny not only that 92 he's had an interesting life right why not oh boy release your autobiography yeah right about it what does he call it what do

you think he calls it uh daryl swamp mule yeah daryl the the life of a swamp mule the story of this dick the story of a rooting swamp mule here i am so yeah very long story. Long story. Yeah, so that's his autobiography, Darryl, just Darryl. Keep an eye on his book names, by the way, because he'll write more books. The 92 Dodgers have the exact reverse record of last year. They're 99 and 63 this year, so almost the exact reverse. And this year, he plays in 43 games, hits.237 with five homers. He's hurt all this year. Doesn't make the all-star team or anything like that,

but he does make $4,050,000. All-star, small star, who gives a shit? Fuck it, yeah, that's a lot of money. 93, Dodgers go 81-81 during that year, but that doesn't matter because he's number one as a new girlfriend who he lives with. Him and Lisa are totally done. Now he's with a woman named Cherise Simmons. And on September 4th, 1993, he's arrested for hitting her.

So, yeah, it's our six month anniversary. You know how that goes. Fireworks. Is that is that where you get it for the six month anniversary? A punch in the nose? I think it's our six month anniversary you know how that goes fireworks is that where you get it for the six month anniversary a punch in the nose I think it's skin skin is six months it's the skin I believe

it's the skin anniversary yeah it's the skin anniversary and then you pistol whip her at a year that's your that's your skiniversary cast iron anniversary whatever the fuck

aluminum I don't know what guns are made of steel steel usually yeah sometimes carbon fiber yeah I was going to say that sorry cast iron aniver whatever the fuck aluminum i don't know what guns are made of steel steel usually yeah sometimes uh carbon fiber yeah i was gonna say that was that that's what i couldn't think of was carbon fiber yeah i couldn't think of the word for that like the fucking shit that's not plastic but it's sort of plastic and it's sort of metal that crap you know what i'm talking solid shit so um september 21st 1993 three, less than three weeks later, it's decided no criminal charges are going to be filed for this, though.

We don't. We're good. Listen, they can handle it in house. Hey, this is none of our business, really. We're going to go out and mind our business. Sounds like a personal thing. It's a family matter. We're going to leave it alone.

Yeah. September 23rd, 93. matter we're gonna leave it alone yeah september 23rd 93 two days after that he says that he uh he's well on the 22nd so that happened no charges on the 22nd he says that he had been contemplating suicide because of accumulated problems that he has um but then the next day he says i'm not actually going to kill myself it was just i flirted with the idea. I thought about it, and then I was like, no, no, my dick's enormous. What am I doing? No matter what, I can. I forgot I'm amazing.

Yeah. I can just shock people with my penis. That's a job, right? Doing fine. So 1993, the Dodgers are, he hits 140 in 32 games that year, so not very good. He makes $3,800,000, though, so that's goddamn good. 40 in 32 games that year so not very good yeah he makes three million eight hundred thousand dollars though so that's well goddamn good 1994 things really start to kind of the wheels come off the whole operation here yeah he is investigated by the irs in march of 94 and the u.s attorney's

office for allegedly failing to file tax returns for in excess of $300,000 of income derived from autograph shows. Oh, that's a lot. That's a lot of money he's going to owe a shitload. So in April 1994, he doesn't show up for the Dodgers' final exhibition game of the year. Really? Just doesn't show up. No call, no show. They don't locate him till like later that night they

finally track him down um the next day they announce hey everybody daryl has a substance abuse problem and we're gonna go ahead and put him on the disabled list yeah they found him yeah it sounds like they found him in a crackdown i was just gonna say the fact that they said they quote he was quote not located until that night. I feel like where he was finally located was somewhere terrible. And they're like, oh, God, all that. Yeah. Somewhere that would be very embarrassing to have on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. So they're like, let's do something else.

So they place him in rehab. He enters the Betty Ford Center for treatment of his substance abuse problem because now he's in the coke more than booze i think so it's both and uh he he's there a month he finishes his he does 28 days at betty ford and what is he he's fucking good now so good good now so good the dodgers say so long you're so good have a good one and they cut him he's released by the dodgers so that's that oh go be good go be good they still have to pay him all the rest of his contract though so that's pretty fucking funny but they're not gonna get anything like he's he's so negative with the other shit it's not even worth any home runs like we have how crazy is that he's such he's so far gone that 20 million dollars paid to him is fine it's doing nothing for us either way

we're they own like 10 million dollars now for the next two years and they're like we'd rather give you we'll pay you 10 million dollars just to not show up and say you're associated with us that's how embarrassing you are to go away it's just yeah to leave that's you think you paid your wife a lot of child support daryl think about what we're paying you to get the fuck away from us. We're going to pay your child support and you. And we didn't even hit you. Yeah. You hit us, though.

Right in the fucking wallet. So June 19th, 1994, he signs another contract, though. People still think he's got pop in the bat, and that's that. So he signs with the San Francisco Giants. And him and Barry Bonds in the same lineup is a— That is trouble for a right-handed pitcher. If you're a righty, you've got to be going, Holy shit, how the fuck do you get around that?

That's brutal, man. I had no idea he played there. Yeah, he was for a little bit. I knew—well don't remember that but also um i had a i didn't rod had a full he had a bunch of uh like he had jerseys of like every where he played and he had like these these like wardrobe things that had like he had like the whole 94 giants team and wow and he uh he showed me the daryl strawberry one he goes i don't know why this is my favorite one. I love the Strawberry jersey.

And he, like, would wore it around his house that night. He'd just come out with a different jersey on all the time. I'd be like, oh, shit, that guy. He just was like jerseys. So, anyway, Daryl's on that team with Barry Bonds, Dusty Baker's the manager, Matt Williams, Rod is the closer, fucking dominating at that point, still throwing 95 with a nasty splitter and fucking owning people. that team finishes it's a strike year that year um finishes 55 and 60

so um not great i guess uh he only plays in 29 games hits 239 with four homers makes 3.3 million dollars though so bad not too bad december 8th 94 he and his agent, Eric Goldschmidt, are indicted on federal tax evasion charges. Oh, no. That's not good. Now they're alleging Strawberry failed to report more than $500,000 in income. We found more. Oh, boy. From 86 to 90.

Ten days later, they both plead not guilty to tax evasion charges in federal court so february 6th 1995 so so far he's got that looming yeah that's all there now february 6th major league baseball suspends daryl strawberry for 60 days for testing positive for cocaine holy shit so his refuge is to go hit a baseball and now he's not even allowed to go hit a baseball so yeah not just refuge but uh you owe all this money and the place that you go to make that money is not wanting you there the only way that you can make money that's it right there so the giants say well actually this is interesting because we put a clause in his contract specifically for incidents such as arrests and cocaine, especially. So he's released.

Oh, no. And due to that clause, they don't have to pay him the rest of his money from San Francisco because he broke a clause in his contract. The Dodgers, though, have to pay him $5.3 million that year for playing for 29 games for their rival they have to pay they have to pay him 5.3 million dollars not bad april 24th 1995 more his irs rrs shit's a mess um he said that at the prospect of facing more jail facing jail time made him relapse into using coke again and smoking crack again and you know how that goes and uh they end up yeah they end up letting him off with probation for the tax thing so probation and he's ordered to repay five or three hundred fifty thousand dollars in back taxes whoa yeah

that's a lot and sentenced to six months of home confinement as well. Okay. So that's an actual penalty now. Yeah. Yeah, no, no. He can only leave his house for practice and games. That's it. So that's tough. So now he marries Sharice because things were going so great.

Things are going since, I mean, everything. IRS, cut from your team. Federal government wants to put you in jail and take hundreds of thousands of dollars from you and baseball won't let you play because they caught you doing more cocaine things are going great i'll get married choices yeah wild choices it's every because that's they always do it at the worst time he is the fucking prototype for crime and sports this guy and they have a son together he's gonna have more children jordan darryl jordan is his name i bet you it's after michael jordan i just have a feeling because it's 95 um so june 19th 1995 the new york yankees

announced they reach an agreement with strawberry so he goes to the uh to the straw to the strawberries to the yankees and his statement here is so like, he didn't write this. This is definitely, his agent said, fucking say every word of this. And it's a clean slate, Daryl, okay? Try to mean it. Let's go. He said, my family and I are extremely pleased I'll be playing with the New York Yankees. I personally want to thank Mr. Steinbrenner for the faith he has shown in me.

The fans in New York are the best in baseball. want to thank Mr. Steinbrenner for the faith he has shown in me. The fans in New York are the best in baseball. I know their expectations and I will do everything I can to justify Mr. Steinbrenner's confidence in me and the trust of the fans. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, wow.

Whatever you want, Mr. Steinbrenner, I'll say it. I just need to get paid. I owe the government a shitload of money. And yeah, he has to pay his whole signing bonus to the federal government basically he has to hand it right over here um he's down in columbus and triple a until august when the yankees call him up 95 yankees they lose to the seattle mariners in five games in the division series there that was a wild card year yeah it was first year wild

card if i'm not mistaken right wasn't it yeah i think so so 95 uh anyway he only plays in uh 32 games it's 276 with three homers though he was always a tough at bat for the yankees he's a good veteran hitter that knew how to take a walk and that sort of thing he's always a tough at bat and he's a scary guy because if you got a hold of one it's gone so you were you had to you couldn So you couldn't pitch him. You had to pitch him a certain way. Yeah, you can't leave one hanging. And if you pitch around him at all, he'll take the fucking walk too.

So he's a difficult at bat. At the end of 95, the Yankees choose not to exercise the option, making him a free agent. And like a week later, Daryl is charged in California with failing to make child support payments and faces one count of willful failure to provide child support, two counts of violating a court order to provide child support,

and another order to provide spousal support. So he just hasn't- Deadbeat dad laws. Yeah, he just hasn't been paying lisa shit basically so 1996 he signs with the saint paul saints of the independent northern league no that's not good basically he's got nowhere to play and he has to show people look i can still play but yeah in saint paul um they make a bobblehead of him that i think that's the only reason why they got him so they can sell some tickets on bobblehead night but it's the it looks nothing like him

nothing like i'd like to see what other bobbleheads the team has put out that year because i guarantee you they had the molds they had a white head and a black head, and they were like, that's a black one, and they just stuck. It looks nothing like him at all. It looks like Sammy Sosa. Stereo Strawberry Night. Use the black one.

Yeah, we need to pop some black heads on these bobbleheads. Let's get going. So really weird here. June 2, 1996, he makes some waves because, and people hear, oh, shoot, yeah, Darryl's still playing. He hits a 522-foot home run. Shit. It's a bomb.

I mean, it's off of some fucking independent league pitcher, but... Shouldn't be doing this. Still, to be able to hit a baseball 522 feet off of anything is pretty goddamn impressive. That's good. June 6th, 1996, Darrell's in court here. I'm going to go to court. I've got to take the day off today, boys.

I've been going to court. He agrees to pay child support for his wife and children. Well, that's nice. I mean, you've already agreed that. He agrees to do it again here. So he's going to repay nearly $300,000 in overdue child and spousal support. Holy shit. God damn.

And then after that, he's got to pay $10,000 a month after that to make up an additional $194,912 he owes her as well. So he owes her damn near half a million dollars, basically. He should have kept up on this because he's going to get broke soon. That's, yeah, I don't know how he wouldn't be. So, yeah, he's got to give her the $300,000 lump sum and then pay the other $195,000 off in $10,000 monthly increments. So he didn't attend the hearing, which he didn't have to. His lawyer said that he intends to make every effort to meet the scheduled payments. I don't think that's what

they asked for i think they asked for the money so you know come on man i want your effort i want your money yeah no shit um the prosecutor said if he fails to meet his payment obligations by a certain date they're going to take him to trial and that's it and what he is charged with is punishable by up to a year in jail. So, yeah, there you go. Official affidavits say it's $422,000 in support between December 15th, 1994 and December 1st, 1995. He just didn't pay a fucking dime after that. So under the agreement, yeah, he's got to pay $297,000 all at once.

Oh, my God, Jesus Christ. got to pay 297 000 all at once oh my god jesus christ he uh he says that uh he's in discussions with teams to return to baseball at that point and he said that he's gonna basically if i play i'm gonna have to hand over all the con all the money to her anyway but still gotta play so uh a los angeles court sets a trial date for him because he didn't pay yet. And then July 4th, he's fucking lucky. They set a trial date of July 5th, 1996. So if he doesn't pay it by then, he's fucked. July 4th, the Yankees purchase his contract from St. Paul.

And they give him how much? A $300,000 signing bonus. Wow. Yeah, George paid his taxes for him is what he did. That's all it was. I'll take care of this for you because you're Daryl Strawberry. And then they bring him up to the Yankees two days later. Because otherwise he is on the streets, man. Yeah, he's going to fuck me.

That's crazy. He owes every dime and he'd be working at Home Depot trying to fucking make $10,000 a month payments. Yeah, Daryl Strawberry's selling you two by fours. That's how'd you like that? and he'd be working at Home Depot trying to fucking make $10,000 a month payments. Yeah. Daryl Strawberry's selling you two by fours. That's how'd you like that? What do you think would be the best thing? I'm building, I want to build like a built-in bookshelf, you know what I mean? Something classic.

What do you think the best wood for that would be? I don't fucking know. What the shit? I mean, I don't know, man. How big's your dick? Can you use it to hammer nails? Because I can. I don't know what kind of skills he has other than this. This is dangerous.

He's playing with fire. It's not good. So 96 Yankees, he's reunited with Doc Gooden. So that's nice. And he has another daughter with Sharice this time. Jade is that daughter. 96 Yankees, 92 and 70, and they beat the Rangers 3-1. I know that off the top of my head because the one is the game I went to, of course.

Yay me. I'm a lucky guy. So, yeah, that's the one there. They beat the Orioles 4-1. That was the one with the kid taking the home run, stealing the home. Jeffrey Mayer was his name, I think, stole the home run yeah stealing the home jeffrey mayor was his name i think stole the home run and then they took him to all the games and said he was a hero and then the major league baseball made a rule that you can't steal home runs so that's how that

went and uh but they beat him 4-1 the orioles act like it was a you know that was the end of game seven they act like you lost four to one you got beaten five games who gives a shit you didn't win more what the fuck are you talking about you lost way too many for for us to even be sympathetic yeah the the red sox blamed bill buckner for 86 which they shouldn't have because the game was already tied number one and that was just the winning run of game six and then you still had to lose game seven but still at least that you know helped really cement a loss in a seven game series you lost in five that's not even close shut the fuck up orioles uh then they go to the world series and they go down oh two to the break they lose

the first two games at home yeah and so now they gotta gotta go to atlanta down oh two and it looks like a sweep basically because atlanta is a fucking juggernaut that year. They are so good. So good, and everyone's like the Yankees. They fucking, what the hell? And then from there, they win the next four and win the World Series. Game over. Absolutely incredible.

We talked about it because Learich was a big hero in that series. So that year, Darryl, 63 games, hits.262 with 11 home runs, and like I said, a tough out. So decent. He makes $300,000, though, besides the signings. Not bad. And salary. And a ring.

And a ring, and he paid his ex-wife back. So that's not bad. So 97 Yankees, 96 and 66. They lose to the Indians that year in the playoffs, and Darryl undergoes arthroscopic surgery on his knee in June. And he's on the disabled list for a long time. Doesn't play for the Yankees until August 15th. And he only ends up playing in 11 games that year.

And hits 103 with zero home runs. Oh, no. That is not good. 750 grand he makes, though. Not bad. That's good. Not bad at all. They re-sign him for a one-year deal for 98 as well.

98 Yankees are about as good as a team has ever existed. They're 114 and 48 in the regular season. Jesus. And they swept the Rangers. They beat the Indians in six. The Indians were fucking nasty in those days that's when you had like tomei and that's tomei and manny ramirez hitting back to back and all that they were omar viskell they were beastly man that wasn't there then uh bell was on

the orioles by then oh he's gone yeah he's on the the Orioles by then. They also go to, then they go and sweep the Padres in the World Series. That was that one there, so they win the World Series. In the middle of that year, in August of 1998, he's sued by, it seems like such a left field name, he's sued by Robert Shapiro.

Yeah. Robert Shapiro is, if the name sounds familiar and you don't know who he is, he is one of OJ's lawyers. Yeah. He's got plenty of money. Yeah, the first one. But apparently Shapiro negotiated some sort of, oh, he negotiated the contract settlement when the Dodgers released him. So they did a settlement with him.

He negotiated that and he had a fee of $100,000 and Darryl never paid him. Years ago? Yeah, this was four years ago000 and Daryl never paid him. Years ago. Yeah, this was four years ago. So now he's suing him. Yeah. If you think it can't get any worse, it can. October 1st, 98, he's diagnosed with colon cancer. Oh my God.

Daryl is. Sued by Shapiro and his asshole at the same time. Sued by a lawyer and then he's got his colon issues. Sued by his asshole at the same time. Sued by a lawyer. And then he's got his colon issues. Sued by his asshole too. Fuck. He's getting fucked by both assholes now. October 3rd, 1998, he undergoes surgery to have a portion of his large intestine removed to get rid of a tumor that's nearly obstructed his intestine.

Oh, Jesus. Jesus. This is a three-hour surgery and they at the time they said it didn't appear to have spread the tumor so that was good um 98 but a week later they announced that he's going to have to undergo chemo after it's found that his the cancer had spread to a lymph node daryl strawberry's the kind of guy that feels like he'd go get cancer just for the sympathy he'd do it just for the pub like maybe somebody will sign me i could you know shit i they keep saying i hit my wife i do cocaine maybe it'll just be like oh

that poor guy's got cancer let's change the narrative i'm gonna just go roll around in some roundup right they always say change the narrative change the narrative uh hold on i gotta go i'm gonna buy a plane ticket to flint real quick and uh snort some asbestos do some shots of their water roll around in some round start drinking about uh three four gallons of that water a day should have it no time so jesus christ so yeah daryl's got cancer he's got to do all that he's released from the hospital in october of 1998 and got to do all that. He's released from the hospital in October of 1998. And then on October 16th, he's released from the hospital. On October 23rd, he is at the Yankees World Series Parade.

Big cancer that fast. Yes, he's there for the parade, man. It's amazing. I got to say, the World Series Parade in New York is pretty fucking exciting. You got to be there. The streets are small, and they're packed with with people and it looks like we just beat Hitler. Like that's what it looks like. It's that.

Yeah. Boys are coming home from war. Yeah, it does. I was at the 96 parade and it was the first time they'd won since the fucking 70s. So it was a huge deal. And there was over three million people at the parade. Unreal. Three million people.

Most states don't have most states don't have 3 million people. We had it at a one fucking parade. It was insanity. And people were throwing up blood in the streets and then just walking away. A man walked up, threw up, not a little bit, threw up just straight blood in front of us. And then we watched him stumble off into a crowd. We were like, whoa. Was it Daryl Strawberry? Yes, it was was actually i could only tell by his giant penis it was a chemo port it

was it was a frat looking dude it looked like a frat guy yeah it was a white guy bro just yeah threw up blood and then wandered off we were like whoa this is crazy man he's just going off to die yeah it was going off in the woods he's like a cat he's just going off to die yeah that's it was going off in the woods he's like a cat he's gonna go hide under a bush somewhere just return to the earth fuck man so 247 daryl hits this year with 24 home runs not too bad this was a good year for him 98 he really contributed a lot he made 875875,000 that year as well. January 9th, 1999, he has another surgery to relieve pain caused by scar tissue from his first surgery. February 9th, 1999, he makes his debut as the spokesman for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.

They're pro. They're in favor of it i believe is his stance it's pretty good you should try it uh holy shit a week later he pisses george steinbrenner off by missing an autograph session and uh he apologized publicly for it and he's still undergoing chemo maybe he didn't feel good right Maybe he felt like he needed to take the day off that day. So that's pretty crazy. He's still, March 10th, while still undergoing chemo, he goes one for four in an exhibition game. It's his first appearance in a game since his surgery, which is crazy.

March 25th, 1999, Strawberry and Robert Shapiro resolve their legal dispute and um yeah they they work something out basically there they negotiate i keep going to chemo i'm sorry it's fine jesus give me 75 you can go to chemo save the other 25 for chemo yeah march 29th the yankees announced that strawberry will remain at extended spring training instead of joining the club on the opening day roster because they still don't know how kind of strength he has there. So he's disappointed, though. He's very upset. He wanted to come all the way back from surgery and make the opening day Major League roster.

That was the goal. And he couldn't. David Cohn, the pitcher, he says, you kind of sense that he was very depressed going through chemotherapy. Oh, gee, that's odd. Weird, Dave. Weird. I have cancer, and this hurts, and I can't eat, and everything sucks.

Wow, it's weird. I think I feel great. This is awesome. Who wants to dance? No, you're a little depressed. He said, and that one of his goals was to make the team have a spring training. He seemed very deflated when that didn't happen. Yeah, that's it.

His cock went shrunk a little bit. A little shrunk up. Just a little bit here. He says, though, he's happy. The Yankees, it's okay. He'll make his comeback in the minors. He's okay. He's good now.

He says, quote, now I'm at a peaceful place. Having a good attitude is the most important thing. Okay? Two weeks later, he's arrested and charged with possession of cocaine and soliciting a prostitute. Listen, man. I mean, he's trying to have a good attitude. Gotta have the finer things in life. A couple of lines and I bang this broad and now I got a better attitude.

See? I told you. No, this is the Tampa police released these facts here. He was driving his SUV. It's about three miles from the yankees minor league complex in tampa it doesn't even stray very far jesus christ it's a tight circle around there he's like i'm gonna go out and grab a sandwich guys where do they make them play that the the hookers and blow are that close who knows really i don't remember we've been there it's a fucking

it's terrible and we'll be there on september 23rd at the tampa improv two shows so uh this area where he tried to find himself a date here it's in a neighborhood that had drawn a lot of complaints about quote rampant prostitution so that's a lot it's a lot of complaints about, quote, rampant prostitution. That's a lot. It's a lot of it. It's just everywhere. Just people are blowing people in my yard. Can they make them at least stop blowing people in my yard? When it's rampant, you've seen someone getting what they paid for.

Everywhere. All over the place. Apparently, this is what happened here. Strawberry, as he drove by, there was an undercover officer posing as a as a lady of the night here and uh he yelled something indecipherable at her as he drove by okay so that happens all the time yeah guy people yell weird shit that happens but then they were like okay yeah that's no big deal but he circled the block and came back and offered her fifty dollars for a blow job said it again i said what the mouth do i said i said how much to stick it in you no huh no this this stick it and he hangs it out the window

he said it once and he came back to clarify yeah she didn't seem to hear it you know either that or he he was just tightening up his game either or i'm not sure didn't work let's just go make sure she knows this is for cash so the cops pull up and arrest him obviously because that's what this whole thing is um they find in his wall and now keep in mind inside of his wallet that's in his back pocket they discover a 20 bill wall like folded up okay they unfold it about a half a gram of Coke in there. Yeah. All right. Now, that's not good. All right? No.

Keep in mind, in his wallet wrapped up in the thing. There's people like on Live PD where they would be like, well, these aren't my pants. It's like. Come on, man. Whatever's in the pants you're wearing belongs to you. I don't care. I get it if it's like a moving truck. This is pants pants you can inventory

pants you know what you're holding in your pockets unless it's your girlfriend's chapstick and or id the rest of the stuff is yours it's all yours whatever's in there so um now the cops say sergeant mark hamlin wrote in the report that strawberry continually apologized and was, quote, very remorseful for what he had done. It's like, God, no. I have so much goodwill right now. I'm the anti-drug spokesman. Do you understand? I can't do this.

I have cancer, you guys. Guys, oh, I'm in pain. Is that worth anything to you? In the report, he also said, quote, he asked several times if there was anything that we could do to change this situation because this was going to ruin his career. Yeah. Yep. How about I go down on her?

I'll suck all your dicks and eat her pussy. What do you think, guys? And I'll still give you $20. What do you say? I'll give her $50 and I'll blow you guys. Any takers you guys can take the 20 coke and and all the blowies and we all walk away i'll put out a couple lines up here on the roof of my car turn my head i'm none the wiser get down on my knees and we'll get sucking so so he the funniest did they funny no no they this is all in the police report so that's not a good

sign that's straight from the police report with quotes around it and everything hilarious so he also the funniest part of it is he maintained the coke wasn't his yeah that's not my coke in my wallet yeah in my wallet how many people how many people have access to your wallet like honestly no one right if you're married maybe your spouse nobody has access to your wallet he says that here's what happened see okay now this will make you laugh you're gonna laugh actually that's the funny thing you're gonna totally laugh and the same thing with the the lady i thought she was i have a lot of platonic lady friends okay yeah i have a friend named janet and uh we've been friends for years and i owe her 50 and i thought it was janet and i was kidding around i was like hey janet

50 for come over here and suck this dick because she's my friend she's obviously she knows you know but then I did a circle and I was like Janet didn't even respond to me like I figured she'd run over and um I guess it wasn't Janet and um you know less of a sense of humor Janet's better sense of humor than her I guess is honestly what happened Janet's an easier. If he told that story, it would be more believable than this story. Okay? He said that his wife's uncle,

not my uncle, my wife's, that's a double distance. Yeah. My wife's uncle. Somebody you rarely see. Two arms lengths here. Yeah.

Used the vehicle the night before, and you know what? I don't know for sure, but he might have folded up this $20 bill and put it in the glove compartment where I could have found it and put it in my wallet without noticing the cocaine. Who knows? I need money. When did this happen? All today, but I don't know if that happened. I don't know if i found a folded

up 20 bill in my glove compartment or not i can't testify to it but you know not sure um then he also said that he was joking with the officer about sex he didn't intend to actually have any he was just joshing just kidding man just pulling your leg you want to pull mine hey girl i'll give you 50 oh my god so they said oh no no you're definitely under arrest for cocaine possession and soliciting a prostitute and yeah you're coming to prison you're coming to jail for this shit so um his wife, Charisse, traveled from their California home to Florida to get him out of jail. Oh, my God. Doc Gooden said, quote, I was shocked. Why?

I was shocked. I was hurt. I don't have all the results of what happened, but I can feel for what he's going through right now. I've been there. We know that. You're there on and off now still. Very aware. It's a lot um

absolutely david cone said i hope his career isn't over i hope they don't give up on him but these sort of situations also conjure up the flip side of the argument how many chances do people get daryl's like hey dave can you stop playing devil's advocate here and just fucking help me no he's asking for your help talking dave what are you a philosophy just fucking help me? No one's asking for your help talking, Dave. What are you, a philosophy major? Fucking help me. Say you're on my side. Jesus Christ. April 24th, 1999, he is placed on administrative leave

by Major League Baseball pending a review of his drug charges. So not allowed to play or work out with the Yankees or their farm teams during this time. Not allowed to play or work out with the Yankees or their farm teams during this time. May 26, 1999, enters a no contest plea to charges of cocaine possession and soliciting a prostitute. And he's sitting in court with his wife sitting next to him, burning holes in his side of his skull with her fucking eyes. It's awesome. skull with her fucking eyes it's awesome he is sentenced to you sir may fuck off 18 months of probation really that's it and a hundred hours community service so he immediately corrects real hard this is the thing that crime and sports guys do okay they start out on like a rise okay it's a rise they hit grace

yeah and then there's a fall and sometimes the fall is like a steady fall sometimes it's a fucking roller coaster drop but at most of the time they have these like if it's a roller coaster drop they try to correct insanely hard like pull all the way back on the stick and fucking bring this bitch back up into the clouds and like it just doesn't work they swing wild and that's you know that nobody's just trying to be normal so he goes from hey baby how much to suck this dick we can snort some lines to the next week he's on the trinity broadcasting network talking about Jesus and how God has helped him. It's immediate.

He's blowing up to the clouds for sure. It's fucking immediate, dude. It's wild. Trying to find the man beyond him. He's also breaking another crime in sports rule of when things are going bad, don't find God. Don't do that. Find God when things are going well, and that's fine because that's a decision that you're actually making. Here, you're grabbing onto a life raft. this might not be what you need yeah this is just

desperation like grabbing for anything here so in in addition to appearing there him and okay he and tiny lister debo debo slash zeus slash whatever the fuck tiny lister and daryl strawberry appeared on benny hinn's television program unbelievable to give their testimonies where benny hinn for some reason he takes his sport coat off and fucking whaps people across the face with it like beats them with a sport coat and they fall down and then they're saved and that's how you all good you save souls and he says you're good now and then that's it you're good you're you're deemed good so uh he also appeared on the 700 club with pat robertson is that right i swear to god dude it's soup it's just weird man the whole thing is fucking weird pat robertson's looked like a corpse since 1982 so that's even

weirder so um talks about his life his newfound faith and uh all that kind of shit so june 18th 1999 bud ceiling says good you're gonna have a lot of time to worship because um you can you're gonna have 120 day suspension then you can return there. So, yeah. He reduces it in August, though, and says, you can come back now if you want. We can sure use you. Yep. So September 1, 1999, the Yankees purchase this contract from minor league team Columbus there,

and he comes up and finishes the season, just plays the last month of the season in the playoffs, where they end up sweeping the Braves in the World Series. Another ring. Another ring. A ring. This is the strangest arc of a year I've ever fucking heard in my life. From the arrest and coke and he's fucked and suspended and all his shit and this and that. And nine months later, or ten months later, he's a World Series champion.

It's the strangest fucking year ever. I swear to God so weird so uh that year 24 games he hits 327 with three homers though does very good and after that he says that's enough for me retires from baseball um totals of his career 259 career batting average uh 335 home runs 1 000 rbi exactly no kidding on the fucking nose how weird is that 1 000 exactly so that's what he was going for and yeah as i got enough now 221 stolen bases as well which i don't think uh people think of that's a that's a decent number of steals for a power hitter for your cleanup hitter that's not too shabby yeah he averaged in the beginning of his career i probably should have mentioned this earlier but in 1987 he stole 36 bases is that right he hit 39 home runs and stole 36 bases so he damn near went 40 40

but he was 30 30 and then the next year he had 29 steals 39 home runs beginning of his career he had like high 20s and steals every year and then by the time he went to the dodgers he went uh from 29 11 10 or 15 10 to 3 1 0 0 didn't work out total money 36 million 5 667 dollars that is retirement life. That's great money. How much do you think he has at that point? About $12,000. Yeah, exactly. And he was planning on putting that on a down payment on a new car probably or some shit. This is rent money.

He also becomes one of only three players in Major League history, him and two other guys, to play for all the New York--based teams current and former he played for the mets yankees dodgers giants and it's only it's all of them it's him all he played for he only that's the only four he played for that's what's wild it's him ricky lede and jose visca you know and those guys were were journeymen at the end where they played for a different team every fucking year so they could just by the odds they would do that whereas he only played for four fucking teams that was it so that's interesting november 15th 1999 another book comes out yeah and this one he writes with sharice oh yeah it's called recovering life yeah and um it just looks like they talk about not

doing drugs and all that kind of shit. Covering life. And I think that one's The Imperfect Marriage is the subtitle of it. It doesn't have to be perfect. You just got to work on it and all that crap. So the book comes out in November. February of 2000, he tests positive for cocaine on a probation report. He's going hard again.

Not good. Him and Benny Hinn must have been hitting it hard. So the next week he's suspended for one year from baseball. It's his third cocaine-related suspension in five years, which he's retired anyway, but who cares. March 1, 2000, he checks himself into a rehab again, and he's there for three and a half months. Whoa. That's a long time in rehab

100 days yeah that's kind of what he needs though i think if he's gonna do it because it a month doesn't work for him so i don't know what it is but then he leaves because he says he has to make money because his wife and kids are need to pay their mortgage how do you pay for fucking three months in a rehab that's expensive i guarantee you the yankees would have somebody paid for that right yeah that's probably i think steinbrenner would have paid for that or the maybe major league baseball plays for that because he still got the health insurance yeah that health insurance they have is fucking incredible so it really is they have amazing health insurance so even when they're retired they have that for

life too that's the thing that like, yeah, football doesn't do, the NFL is fucked up as we found out with, uh, what's his name? Trying to get who, God damn it.

It's a Wes Welker, right? Wes Welker trying to get disabilities. The guys had like 84 surgeries, all of which during the time he played football. And they're like, yeah, but we can't,

we don't know if that's from football. We're not going to give you money. It's like, are you out of your fucking mind? He's five nine and you're throwing over can't we don't know if that's from football we're not going to give you money it's like are you out of your fucking mind nine and you're throwing over the middle at him of course it's from football have you ever seen him take a hit yeah it's from football are you just but they do this they just blast it deny people they're fucking scum of the earth man and then they cut your health insurance off after a while it's it's gross they're fucking disgusting the nfl and they make the most money of anybody it's yeah disgusting that fucking league they should be ashamed of themselves so uh anyway

baseball pays for a lot though so the reaction to this is again his coke uh david cone again he says it's tough watching close friends stumble again because he's suspended and won't be a yankee this year uh doesn't affect our friendship i would hope not hey dave you could have stopped because he's suspended and won't be a Yankee this year. Doesn't affect our friendship. I would hope not. Hey, Dave, you could have stopped it. He's stumbling and it's sad. Why are you still going? David really adds an extra line that's never necessary, really.

So, yeah, Chuck Knobloch said, quote, I don't think you'll find anybody who knows Darryl who's going to say anything negative about his personality. Talk about a guy a loving guy a guy you can talk to a guy who will be beside you all the way to lose one of those guys that's hard cone take a take a page out of knoblox book he knows what's happening just say something nice and move the fuck on here let's do it july 27 2000 he's under investigation for possible major violations of his probation stemming from his drug arrest july 28 2000 a ct scan suggests the possibility his colon cancer has spread to lymph nodes that were near his original tumor um august of 2000 he has more surgery to remove whatever they can out of his stomach

uh september 11 2000 he is arrested in tampa after bashing his car into several things while driving around uh headed to his probation officer fucking absolutely tanked on pills sky high on fucking sky high which i can understand why he's taking pills he just had cancer surgery three weeks ago but get a ride then you can't drive there pinball on the streets no did he expect to show up all fucked up and have the probation officer be like okay bye here go home in your car and drive. Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah, exactly. That's what he kind of is because he, an off-duty cop apparently was in front of him and watched in his rearview mirror as Daryl swerved around, weaving through traffic and outside downtown Tampa and hit a street sign. You know how wild your driving has to be for somebody in front of you to see it in their rear view?

In Florida? Yeah. Because if you're standing out of the top of your sunroof firing off automatic weaponry, no one would really notice it that much. If you had a lion in the front seat of your fucking, no one would notice it that much. So you got to really be making a fucking act in a fool to stand out in tampa i'm sorry you have to be i don't even know man this is not screaming sexual obscenities at a cop i think that's still considered friendly there yeah they didn't stop him until he came around

the second time yeah that's what i mean i think that's still considered acceptable behavior that's just a florida hello yeah that's all that is offering 50 for acceptable behavior that's just a florida hello yeah that's all that is offering 50 for a blow job that's a florida hello that's all that is that's florida good morning yeah it's a if you're in another state and you get arrested for that just go i'm from florida that's how we are friendly man someone will put this in there and that's it'll be an urban dictionary by tomorrow i'm sure so 50 bucks for a blow that means to offer someone 50 bucks for a blowjob that's called a tampa hello it's tampa it's got to be specific it's a tampa hello yeah

it's fucking great so um this guy said through his rearview mirror he watched strawberry quote weaving all over the road hitting this road sign then he saw the suv veer off the road completely come back onto the road so then he kind of got behind him and followed him after that and he watched him veer off and bash into an azuzu and drive on he just hit a car kept driving i'll get there eventually um so this car deputy was driving an unmarked vehicle so he got next to him and flagged him down and pulled him over got in front of him and uh several on-duty officers arrived and uh apparently he didn't like really understand too much what was going on um he was under the influence of a shitload of painkillers they had to get him out of the car and at gunpoint and shit he didn't know what was happening he's like

huh what's going on now he was just in a in a haze basically uh allegedly i guess um but he's charged with reckless driving um property damage and leaving the scene of an accident those are the charges yeah yeah perfect and he was like said, on the way to visit his probation officer. Unbelievable. So he pleads guilty and is sentenced to, you, sir, again, may fuck off a year of probation and community service here. And they said, though, since he was on the way to see his probation officer, they changed his probation requirement to house arrest. So they'll visit him there. Don't go home.

Don't leave. Don't come out, please. Because he said, I have to take the painkillers. And I had no other way to house arrest. So they'll visit him there. Don't go home. Don't leave anymore. Don't come out, please. Because he said, I have to take the painkillers, and I had no other way to get there. Right. So he could have taken a cab, I'm sure. October 25, 2000, here, he is in jail again, gets arrested again,

because he was in a drug rehab center, and he took off to go on a drug binge. All this talk about drugs making me hungry it's making me just want some are you itchy you feel itchy because i'm itchy i don't know what it is you ever sit around when you're hungry and talk about food you're gonna go out and get food getting something man he left the facility about three eleven o'clock at night on a Saturday night, and he came back at about 3 a.m. Yeah. And they said, well, what the fuck, where were you? And he admitted everything.

He said he had a woman pick him up, not his wife, and they quote, went smoking crack. It sounds like they were hand-in-hand skipping while they did it. She had a little, like, a Dorothy Wizard of Oz skirt on. We're off to smoke some crack rocks. We'll light them up and take a puff. I'll show you my dick in Proposition to Cop, and there we go. What the fuck is happening here?

Follow the white brick road. Follow the cocaine brick road. Follow the cocaine brick road. Hey. What the fuck, man? It's awesome. This is awesome. Just out crack smoking. And he also took 10 Xanax as well.

Jesus. Yeah. So he was fucked up, man. Take two of those, bro. And you are wiped out. Well, you got to come down from the crack i think that's probably what it is you smoke a bunch of crack it's gonna take a lot to penetrate that i don't know if he's got a a tolerance for that shit but my god 10 is crazy i've seen guys do like i've seen guys do like a fucking eight ball of Coke and drink a bottle of booze.

Yeah? Because you can balance them like that. So you can do a ton of Coke and drink a ton of booze and you're less drunk and not so wired. But 10 Xanax. Oh, I know, I know. I don't know. I don't smoke crack. I never have.

So I don't know what kind of a. I'm thinking it's not. What you need to buffer that? It's not like coffee. You know what I mean? It's not like I took 10 what i mean it's not like i took tenzanics give them a cup of coffee if you gave someone crack they'd probably wake right the fuck up most of the time you know if they were tired yeah it's probably like prolonged smelling

salts yeah whoa hey now all right who wants to dance two hours of smelling salts oh my god so um yeah his uh the guy who runs the facility said quote needless to say we are all we're we're always disappointed when an addict relapses and daryl strawberry is an addict boy is he i would say so so he's charged with violating probation or violating parole at this point and uh the it's And it's all a violation of his parole, everything he's done basically here. He said he's been under tremendous distress battling cancer, and that's what happened here. So come on. He's an annex for this.

Come on. You know what I mean? So the lawyer said the easiest thing for the judge and the public to do is say, how many chances is Daryl Strawberry going to get? I'm not ready to give up on Darryl Strawberry. That's what they want the judge and the public to say. Give him more chances. Come on.

So, yeah, that is fucking ridiculous, man. He also has to wear an electronic monitoring device now and all that sort of thing here. Yeah, and he's held in jail for a while here. Oh, yeah, yeah. He's held in 40 days in jail. He ends up doing that whole thing. They don't let him out. He's also, though, he has to go back into rehab all the time.

He goes back and gets out of jail. Or, no, he's in jail doing the 40 days, and he tells the jail that since he's been in jail, he's lost his will to live, and he's stopped chemotherapy, and he wants to die of cancer in jail. Suicide by cancer. I've never heard of that one before. Whoa.

That's hardcore. Slit your wrists, you pussy. Fuck, that is. Suicide by cancer. I want pain. That's brutal. My God. April 2nd, 2001. He's back in a rehab center.

He's out of jail. He's doing great. He's good now, as a matter of fact, until he goes missing from the rehab center again. This time, though, the New York Yankees get a phone call from an unknown caller who says that uh daryl strawberry has been kidnapped yeah and they've pistol whipped him and they're holding him for ransom and they want fifty thousand dollars for daryl strawberry to get him back and they called the yankees for that um so uh the next day though he's arrested and charged with violating a probation warrant after a four-day disappearance from a drug rehab center here. Kidnapping himself.

Kidnapping himself. Yeah, he was never kidnapped. They found out that none of that happened. 50 grand or $500 gift card to Bobo's crack house. His lawyer said, the search is over and Daryl is okay. We've put him in a hospital to make sure he's taken care of. And we've chained him to the floor to make sure he's taken care of. And we've chained him to the floor also because he'll run away.

Holy shit, man. He wasn't wearing his electronic bracelet at the time. I think it had just been taken off. And prosecutors say they're going to seek a prison sentence for Strawberry now. This is getting fucking ridiculous. He's broken house arrest a ton of times. He's in all this type of shit. May 2001, he's in court, and they're asking the judge to sentence him to 18 months in prison at this point. They said this is not about Daryl Strawberry, the baseball star.

His lawyer says this is a case about a person who's very sick and needs a great deal of help. Yeah. Great deal of help. Yes, absolutely. The judge says, you, sir, may fuck off. He tells him, this is terrible. You're at bat in the bottom of the ninth with two strikes against you. You have proven you're a winner on the field.

Now you must prove you're a winner off the field. You, sir, may fuck off. 18-month jail sentence suspended, though. Yeah. Think you deserve another chance here, buddy. And he's got to go to Phoenix House, a facility in Tampa. That makes sense. Get out of there.

Yeah, so March 12, 2002, he, after violating several non-drug-related rules at the rehab center, like probably getting blowjobs coming for him and shit, he is sent to jail instead spends his nope spends his 40th birthday in jail oh wow is that right that's that's where he does yep um it's not good man uh he's he's having a bad time he's interviewed briefly outside the marion county jail and saying that he has not been accused of fighting or other

infractions at the rehab center. He said, quote, they just said I was discharged from the program. That's not what they said. They told us something different, chief. So, yeah. So he's scheduled to go before a judge at that point. This is his fifth probation violation since September of 2000. And the judge says well i gave you a chance and you fucked up now you're going down you sir may fuck off 22 months in prison oh he upped it uh yeah 22 months in prison yeah you're going down now that's the shit you're suspended plus a couple for your new shit motherfucker so he is in jail and he is shit out of luck and he doesn't know what to do

he's never been in an environment like prison before i mean his youth sucked but for the last 20 years he's been it's opulence you know it's been the things he likes the people he likes the food he likes does what he wants smacks women he does anything he wants he's in jail and he's looking around he's like this is not i gotta make it my own at least i don't feel good in here and he said you know what though even though i've been retired and i've had my problems i'm still a celebrity and i still have some hookups i'm gonna call a friend of mine and see if he'll do me a favor and he does and he calls his very good friend that he's known from around new york it is dexter manly interior decorator from New York City. And he says...

How is it you've come to arrive here? Holy shit, man. This is like, wow. Like, you're... Okay. Listen to me, okay? Look me in the eye, Daryl. Here. One and two, Daryl. This is only two. I want both of them on me, okay? Look me in the eye, Daryl. Here. One and two, Daryl. This is only two. I want both of them on me, okay?

Daryl, you're white trash, Daryl. I'm sorry. You, sir, are white trash. There's all there is to it. You have all the signifiers of white trash. Yeah. You, like, get arrested in Tampa. That's number one, one and two.

One, two, and three is arrested in Tampa. That's white trashy right there. With a Tampa hello. With a Tampa howdy do. Come on. A Tampa how do. Daryl, seriously. Oh, my God.

You're punching your wife with a closed fit. You're pulling a gun on your wife. Daryl, seriously. Get it together. You have cancer, for fuck's sake. Figure it out. Pull it together you have cancer for fuck's sake like figure it out pull it together man like do you have any

like pride or I'm not decorating this it's it's very gray I feel like you need this for now this is just

you swallow for a while okay and poof in a cloud of feathers and boas he's gone

and Darryl is extremely confused and he's thinking he's having like a crack flashback or something. He doesn't know what's going on. Have you seen him before? And he's stuck in there. He's in Gainesville prison.

That sounds terrible here. The picture of it was bleak too. And they said since he's in prison, he's a model inmate with no disciplinary infractions. He's doing great. Everything's wonderful. He's doing great. Everything's wonderful. He's good now. April 3rd, 2000, he's released from prison finally after 11 months.

So he does have his time here. His wife picks him up from jail and he pops out and there he is, ready to go out into the world and do just well. You know what I mean? Obviously. So September 2005, he's arrested for filing a false police report. Yeah. He claims his SUV was stolen.

Okay. He's ultimately not. They ultimately dropped the charges. Um, but he, he apparently has a silver Nissan SUV. He said it was stolen at a Delray gas station, but when they did investigations on it, they found videotape from the gas station.

It's a Sunoco station where they saw him pull up, leave it there, then get in a Land Rover with an unidentified woman and drive away. And that's where they found it. And that's where he said it was stolen. So not good for him he just dropped it off don't want that anymore was that the beginnings of insurance fraud yeah that's exactly what it was yeah it got stolen but they're gonna find that and return it and there's no insurance to be paid here's what i think he thought if i leave it here for two weeks someone will steal it yeah someone will steal it he probably left the fucking keys in it or something or whatever yeah so he probably said someone will steal it

it's fucking you know or they'll beat the shit out of it or whatever something yeah i'll get something out of this fuck it um the police officer said once they you know confronted him he said quote he was an absolute gentleman when presented with the facts he admitted he immediately admitted he had lied and said he shouldn't have done it what the fuck is wrong with you darryl why would you do that darryl that's not his other his only legal problem he also is charged with a misdemeanor charge of uh or you know he has to he's trying to avoid a contempt charge because he has to pay more than 160 000 he owes in back child support j Jesus Christ.

Holy shit. This money is owed to a completely different woman, a woman named Alice Marie Lucas, who is the mother of his 13-year-old daughter, apparently fathered by him. God knows when. 13 years ago. 13 years ago. Probably to the year. Yeah. 13 years ago probably to the year yeah he was paying her 6,737 dollars a month and um i guess he hasn't been paying her so now he owes

her a shitload of money there he's got a lot of problems um yeah so um and also strawberry and his wife are named in another court action involving a home they lived in as guests of the pastors of a 20,000-member church. These people said that they befriended Strawberry and saw he was doing well, and then he didn't pay rent. So, yeah. So they were like, they ended up figuring it out. Okay. So, October 2005, Sharice divorces him. She realizes this has been a terrible 10 years.

Everything in my life is because of him. This is fucked up. So 2006, though, he's at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. Yeah. And he are at a convention and he meets a woman named Tracy. Oh, also a recovering addict. And yeah, he told her to, he said, you should stay away from me.

I'm trouble. And she said, no, no, no. No, no, no. At one point, so they get together. They're a hot item. At one point he relapsed and Tracy went, quote, banging on crack house doors looking for him.

Wow. She knows where they are, so that's helpful. Yeah. And she took him home to her parents' house in St. Louis and whatever, took care of him. Yeah. Yep. And they get together. They get married.

Now, it's so funny. There's all these pictures of them, too. You'll never find a picture of them together where she's not tightly gripping him in some way shape or form. His arm his shoulder. She's always gripping him like he'll run away and smoke crack if I'm not physically holding him. You could see it. Do we need to take him away from her. It's what.

No no no no. She's like I'm keeping him from smoking crack. This is what. It's good for him. So there's one picture where she's sitting he's standing behind her with his hands on her shoulders and she's still got one hand up gripping his hand tightly like he'll run away if he's behind me don't go he's gonna replace his hand with something that weighs about the same amount like indiana jones and i'm not gonna know

and next thing you know he'll be soliciting a prostitute with cocaine in his wallet and blaming it on my uncle this This is not good. She really loves him. She loves him. She loves him. Yeah. She said, Daryl said, I was hurting so much. I was angry.

I was mad. She came into my life and I saw something different in her eyes. So there was that. Yeah. There you go. Something different. So anyway, he starts to make a change and he starts to actually not smoke crack, which is a really good start here. They get married in 2006.

He he ends up starting a ministry. Yeah. Jesus. Oh, yeah. They start a ministry. It's it's fucking crazy. They have like the Daryl Strawberry Recovery House, which is wild. That's helpful. Yeah, that's good. They have like the Daryl Strawberry Recovery House, which is wild. That's helpful.

Yeah, that's good. You can go there anytime. Anytime. It's just for him. That's what I mean. It's not for other addicts. It's just for Daryl Strawberry. Daryl to go recover again.

He's going to need it from time to time. It's fully staffed 24-7, but he'll show up once in a while. We keep it running. It's best for everyone around here. So, um, there you go. He's doing his thing.

Uh, baseball. He throws out the first pitch at Shea stadium before game one of the NLCS in 2006. They'll let him do that. He got a huge ovation. Uh, 2007,

Darryl Strawberry Jr. Yeah. Is drafted by the Phoenix suns in the NBA. Kidding. Yes, he is. He's drafted for a second round draft pick and he plays 2007, Barry Jr. is drafted by the Phoenix Suns in the NBA. Yes, he is. Second round draft pick. And he plays 2007 and 8 for the Phoenix Suns. And then he's played for a different team every year in Europe.

He's been playing since then. Yeah, he's still playing. Yeah, 2021 season still as he was playing. So he also, Darryl Sr., served as an announcer on the Mets pre and post game shows in 2007 and 8. And he ended up being like an analyst, like a kind of a color man there. A color man. Yeah. Yeah. Make sure, you know, who knows, somebody said, what the fuck did he just say?

Throw on that. Color commentary is what we're getting at. He ends up making an appearance at Old Timers Day for the Yankees as well. And everybody likes Daryl because he was good on the team and everybody felt bad because in the Yankees time, that was his cancer year. So he all kind of felt bad. I remember even when he got busted for smoking or having coke and soliciting a hooker we were like he's got cancer right who gives a shit like come on he's got cancer he should be able to do coke what are the chances he has any of those rings oh wow that's a zero right i don't think he's got those rings zero no way they probably make him sell him to

do child support payments for christ's sake he also appears on celebrity apprentice in 2010 with like sharon osborne and cindy lauper and brett michaels and a bunch of other fucking failures who are none of them are failures i shouldn't say that sharon osborne has a shitload of businesses and cindy lauper is like a multi-platinum fucking fantastic she does fine for herself and i'm sure brett sure Brett Michaels with his stupid reality shows. I'm sure... Hepatitis or whatever he's got. I was going to say, I'm sure he's got a beautiful house down in Tampa

that's just gorgeous. Diabetes, that's what he's got. There you go. Yeah. He definitely lives in Tampa, though. You look at him and you see Tampa in his eyes. That boy, that old man... Pure Tampa.

...probably still plays concerts like FSU or some shit. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, the field next to FSU is what it is. He tailgates and does concerts for FSU kids. He'd crush in Laughlin, I think. Do really well there. And slay the pussy, too. Yeah, yeah.

At the end of the third episode, Daryl was fired, and he admitted that he was tired, and he wanted to go home. He said, I know I'm the weakest contestant, and I'm tired, and I want to go home. Yeah, because he knows nothing about business. Yeah, he finished in 12th place. Yeah. He doesn't know what he's doing for anything. He knows how to turn on a Coke cost.

That's it. And he knows how to write a book, because May 4th, 2010, another book is released. Oh, my God. This one. Remember, he had one called Daryl. This one's called Straw. That's it. And he knows how to write a book because May 4th, 2010, another book is released. Oh, my God. This one. Remember, he had one called Daryl. This one's called Straw. We're getting there.

And then the third part of the trilogy is going to be just Barry. You know it's coming. Barry. I'm waiting for Barry. That's going to be the hot one right there. He's got himself a trilogy. Oh, yeah. It's a whole trilogy.

In 2010, he is also inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame. Oh. Good for him. In 2010, he as well opens his own restaurant, Strawberry Sports Grill in Queens. Oh, boy. Got that. 2012, he closes Strawberry's Restaurant in Queens. He didn't learn shit on the apprentice nope two years uh

that's something so uh he said that um after two wonderful years we sadly announced that strawberry sports grill has shut its doors for the last time unfortunately things have just run their course yeah he said we opened two years ago. Never imagined we would meet so many beautiful people and make so many good friends and lose so much money. Should have been in there. Holy shit. August 5th, 2014, he and Tracy write a book together. Oh, co-book. It's called The Imperfect Marriage.

That's The Imperfect Marriage. So that's what he has there. Let's see, 2015 in May, there's an article on him. He looks like he's put some weight on. And he says, addiction is a struggle and you can get caught up in it. He said, it led to a life of destructive behavior. There's no question about it. My relationships with my first wife and second wife, it tore people's lives up. Anyone who has an addiction problem is very selfish, very self-centered, and it's strictly about them.

They don't care who they screw up along the way. Yeah. Okay. He just, all right. So it has nothing to do. So you didn't have any. Okay. Yeah.

Wow. For a guy who couldn't kick it, he really has some shit going on there. He's vicious to everybody. Yeah. August of 2016, Doc Gooden's having his drug problems at that point. And Daryl is publicly talking about it. Just tearing him down.

He said, I got to find Doc Gooden. He's a fucking mess. And he said, I have to try to do something before he's dead. Jesus Christ. He said, I'm worried a lot. I know addiction. My fear is people don't change. They die. He said, I'm worried a lot. I know addiction. My fear is people don't change. They die.

They die this way. I hope I just hope the light comes on, comes on soon before it's too late. So, yeah, there's that. Doc was like, fuck you, dude. That's messed up. Strawberry was trying to get a hold of Doc Gooden. Doc Gooden's live-in girlfriend for four years before his cocaine use drove her away, said that he doesn't know. She didn't know where he was.

So that's how that works. So, yeah, he's looking for Doc. Eventually finds Doc, and he says, quote, It's not the first time this has happened. We all love him, but we've all been enablers to his addict behavior, and it has to stop. Then he said, quote, he's a complete junkie addict. Jesus. I've been

trying behind the scenes to talk to him and get him to go get help, but he won't listen. He thinks he can manipulate and BS his way through everything. His son called me to beg me to help his dad before he dies. he said it's just words to put in the press man that is fucked up man jesus he's going right after him that's nasty i

feel i feel kind of bad for doc he's talking all sorts of shit about him he's over there smoking crack i mean i feel bad for doc and i'm feeling less bad for daryl at this point because he seems like a dick and he's doing better but who i do feel bad for jimmy oh my god not as bad as i feel for these people four different daryl strike out a daryl strawberry who tends bar? Yeah. All right. Isn't it? Try this mojito, isn't it? Isn't it? It's just a weird thing. Yeah, there's a student in Denver.

There's four Daryl Strawberries. That's crazy. None of them say what they do. They just say where they are. So there's four different Daryl Strawberries besides him and Junior. So that's weird as fuck. March 2017, Daryl announces he and Doc are good again. They're friends again. Everything's fine.

Everything's all fucking fine. 2017, he talks about how he had a sexual addiction as well. Really? Yeah. He said it was all a pretty crazy lifestyle. You know, all addictions have to do with behavior. Yeah. He said coaches and teammates even covered for him as he had sex during games.

Wow. During games. He said, quote, they were pretty cool. I would say that's pretty cool. Remember his wife? His wife just didn't realize what the life of the wife of a ball player had to go through. Yeah, this is fucking ridiculous. Unbelievable, dude. of a ball player had to go through yeah this is fucking ridiculous um unbelievable dude so um

he's on uh jimmy fallon in 2017 promoting his new book jesus don't give up on me which sheds light on his addiction blah blah blah now 2019 he's got some shit to talk about weed now mind you this motherfucker's been yeah okay so he says um that he thinks well i'll just let you hear him he says quote most people don't understand marijuana is a drug it's just the beginning starting off uh people starting people off when they're young and then it leads to everything else like most young people start off with marijuana it's a gateway actually start off with marijuana. It's a gateway. Actually start off with alcohol. That's the easiest thing to get because it's in their house. Who doesn't recognize that marijuana is a drug?

Well, it's less of a drug than alcohol. I mean, technically everything's a fucking drug. Technically sugar is a drug. Yeah, but nobody's ever looked at weed and never assumed it wasn't a drug. Well, what makes a drug then?

What? What's a define a drug? What's a drug to you? A drug is THC. I'm not challenging. No, no, no. I'm saying what's a drug to you? Drugs are things that make you feel different.

Make you feel different. Okay. Yeah. All right. That's a decent. It's drugs. They make you feel different euphoric because you can take drugs for your blood pressure that's still drugs so that's a drug that has a

wide i guess it's a good definition though that's what but he said anything most people look at marijuana and don't realize it's a drug of course it's a drug everybody knows that he didn't even fucking but this is how dumb he is he didn't even fuck that no that's bullshit because what i'm saying is he didn't even realize that most people start off with alcohol who nobody fucking considers a drug they consider it fun it's just oh who doesn't drink my whole i have the people i see on fucking line their whole personality is booze their whole person every post is getting drunk again we're on the fucking bar again up doing the pub crawl again that's what i mean they don't realize that's the

first thing they fucking take because it's in the house and then you're like what else you got and that's the first thing that makes you feel different and that gateway shit is like fucking nancy reagan bullshit like i don't know that ain't true that's real it's not it's scientifically some people yes because they're just climbing a ladder whatever that was on that step they'd be on but it was looking for a new thing weed itself doesn't spark you to do other shit that's not that's not that's what he's saying it's a gateway i started with marijuana and it led me to everything else everything else and he's upset with the nfl and nba because they publicly have now advocated

for marijuana as treatment for pain he's very upset about that so he says that he says quote he talks about weed and he talks about pills and all that kind of shit and uh other people are saying well those are powerful like there's an offensive tackle here who says well they give us pills to fuck with our you know so we can not have pain he said those are powerful drugs many people who take them get addicted right what the fuck are we talking about here what's worse um steven jackson who i love from the pacers there he's got a different take on it. He's not going to argue whether this or that. He says his response to Daryl's anti-weed rant is, quote, you a whole crackhead out here, bruh. You a whole crackhead out here, bruh.

That's what I'm talking about. You don't get to say anything about anything. That is beautiful. That's fucking great. Argument over. Shut the fuck up. That's it. Done.

How many times you get arrested? Steven Jackson never gets arrested. You hear him getting arrested all the time? Nope. Chilling smoking weed. He's a back-to-back champion of that three-on-three league now. Fucking love Steven Jackson. He's the shit.

He said, asking you for advice about weed is like asking somebody who went broke how to stay rich. He later tried to be nice about Daryl and whatever, but he said, quote, I took that last post to Daryl Strawberry down because he's trying to get his life right, so I don't want to disrespect him or his family or kids. So I apologize to that, for that. Then in a follow-up video, he says, but if you think weed is a gateway drug, then you weak-minded. It's a gateway for weak-minded people. That's just what it is. So if you weak-minded, don't smoke weed

because it's going to make you try Coke and crack. There you go. If that's you, Daryl, it's because you're a weak motherfucker have that that was directed toward daryl obviously after uh august 2021 he's actually preaching oh boy and he says that he's preaching he's that's all he cares about now is the lord he says people come up and say which team do you root for the mets or the yankees and he says i don't even like baseball fuck baseball i don't remember i don't remember jesus's batting average so i don't need to deal with baseball uh he said

i'm not trying to win games for a team anymore i'm quote trying to win souls for the kingdom fuck oh god jesus i'm gonna fucking throw up um oh yeah we've gotten away from biblical principles and that's why the nation is falling apart no it's not you're a crack head you don't give advice you don't get to analyze crack head everything you've done is wrong daryl wake up today don't do crack that's it all of you people have never been arrested for being crack heads let me tell you what's wrong with the country and how you're living your life wrong. Hey, fuck you. How's that sound? How about let's not get arrested for punching my wife in the face and smoking crack, you fucking jackass.

Pulling guns on your wife. What are you, nuts? Hollering at a cop. Fucking asshole. September 2021, his granddaughter goes missing. Oh, no. My Lisa is her name, and she goes missing,

and for a few days, they're trying to find her, and then I guess she's found, safe and sound, not like found in a ravine somewhere. She's found safe and sound, and he posts that, you know, thank you.

You know, we found my granddaughter. Lisa was found. She went weed smoking. There you go. She knows how he feels about it. My Lisa was found safe thank you everyone for helping me find uh helping me find my baby is what he wrote there so or that's what his daughter diamond wrote there so there he is that's up to 2021 can't get enough well buy his new book oh it's called Turn Your Season Around. Turn your season around.

Read my fucking crack book. Fuck you, Daryl. Check out his website, Finding Your Way. To what? Why is everything about finding to him? Because he's always finding coke. Because he's searching.

If you're looking for ladies and crack you're always searching yeah it's finding he's on the lookout so um yeah so there you go can't get enough of daryl he's everywhere you can i don't know listen to him preach about jesus read one of his 19 he's more books than fucking stephen king over here read one of his books uh i don't know buy a jersey i i bought a jersey i wore it to nashville he has tons of his jerseys autographs whatever available he's out there it's daryl goddamn strawberry and that everybody is daryl strawberry what a fucking disaster daryl is you didn't realize when you put it all he's one of those guys it's so long and it was such a steady it

happened just such a steady pace you almost don't even think about that much shit going on because he did it over such a long period of time but when you condense it into three hours it's really a disaster it's even more crazy how he was such a flash in the pan in the in the grand scheme of things where he was good at baseball obviously he was a great baseball player but it was so fast and he was over very good for seven seasons or so yeah that's about it and it was over of his own volition too that's the problem is he fucked it up himself so that man could have played baseball for 20 years if he would have just focused on just baseball yeah well the cancer might have got him out of it yeah

maybe but still that would have been 15 years of success rather than getting cut a couple times who knows if he would have ever gotten cancer if he lived a healthy lifestyle? Who knows what his lifestyle, how his lifestyle contributed to that. I don't know how tons of alcohol abuse might contribute to that in your stomach especially. I'm not sure. So either way, that's Daryl Strawberry. If you like that, tell the world about it. Get on whatever app you're listening on and give us five stars.

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it's a thursday night and it's available for a week over halloween the whole deal and then also get your tickets for live shows and in a live show it And in a live show, it's a fucking comedy show, everybody. It's a party. It's not like I'm not talking shit about anybody else because I don't know. I only hear this from people at venues. The people who run the venues and work at venues tell us, wow, we get podcasts in all the time. And they're not funny at all. Even if they're comedy shows, they're not a the people on them aren't comedians, which is fine.

You can run a murder podcast without being a comedian or a podcast about whatever without being a comedian but when you're going to do a live show and entertain people for two hours now it's now it's a college lecture it's not a fucking actual comedy show we're comedians we know how to do this it's it's an hour 45 to two hours of ass-pounding comedy. It'll be fun. We're going to fuck you up. That's how it works. So hang out with us there and come see us in Tampa if we haven't pissed off everyone in Tampa on September 23rd at the Tampa Improv. We do two shows.

They live there. They know. They know. Yeah, they're fine with it. And in Orlando the next night, September 24th, that the Orlando Improv come out. Two shows that night. And the two shows in Tampa are different shows than each other. The two shows in Orlando are different shows than each other.

So feel free to see two in a night, damn it. There you go. Make a party out of it. We can do it there. That said, patreon.com slash crimeandsports is where you get all of your bonus stuff. And you're going to get tons of bonus stuff for the price of a cup of coffee, Jimmy, for five dollars a month or more, whatever you want to put on there. But at least five dollars, you're going to get all the bonus shit, everything, not only

the two new episodes that we put out every other week, but also the entire back catalog of like 150 episodes that you can listen to and and have a good time with this week. What we're going to talk about for crime and sports, we're going to continue the sports sex scandals with part two of, number one, the Duke fuck list. We got to finish that. We only did half of that. That's wild. The rating this college girl did her senior thesis on fucking athletes at school and rating their cocks and sexual performances in general and ranking them uh and she's got a good grade too and also uh tony parker banging brent barry's wife and the uh

the soccer player i believe in england who was fucking his sister-in-law and then like wrote her poetry that became public it's very embarrassing we'll talk about all that a couple more there's a whole bunch of grody sex scandals. Don't worry about it. Then for small town murder, we're going to talk about this really interesting documentary for a part of it. And then the rest will be the rest of the investigation on the Zodiac killer. It's called,

what is it? The most dangerous animal. I believe it's called, uh, it's on Netflix. It's new. It's a man who honestly, or dishonestly,

we don't really know his intentions, a man who honestly or dishonestly, we don't really know his intentions, but he believes and says that his long-lost father is actually the Zodiac killer and writes a whole book presenting just, you know, ironclad evidence that turns out to have holes everywhere in it. It's just like a screen. There's just shit pouring through it. Very loose facts. Very loose facts very loose facts and

we'll we'll find out we'll talk about that and find out also where the investigation kind of stands today with different people and who's who's the guy they think it is at this point because it seems to change every few years or so so uh yeah that's that's patreon this week you can get all of that like i said five dollars a month or more or above whatever you want to do and you're also going to get a shout out at the end of the show which is actually right now and you're going to get that uh please you know enjoy the shout out as well patreon.com slash crime and sports and jimmy i would like you to hit me with the names of the people who would never shout out sexual propositions at the window at us please Please, hit me with that list. This week's executive

producers are Arthur Lane. He says Yahweh is a cunt. I tend to agree. Yamika Woolridge, Michelle Terry, thinking of you, by the way. Yeti Shetty and Jordan in Canada. Thank you guys so much for everything you do. Other producers this week are Jesse Pitts in Nashville. He hung

out with us in the green room there for a little bit. Good to see you. Goth Brooks in Nashville. He hung out with us in the green room there for a little bit. Good to see you. Goth Brooks in Nashville. He's a terrific man. Taylor in Memphis. Jimmy Davis. Alex Hopper. Lou Duva. You know who that is. The boxing manager. Yeah, there it is. Carl the South African bird watcher

whore. Corporal Carl Kirshner. Joey Pepperoni Nips came to Nashville and he brought Pepperoni Nips t-shirts. That's wow. And he brought Pepperoni Nips t-shirts. Yes. That's adorable. I have that. And he also brought Ruben Barbasol Can Rodriguez with him.

Thank you guys both for being there. Christina Bateman, Jude Kendall, happy hour checking in in Eugene, Oregon. Beaver Nicole and Kat. Oh, baby Kit. Regina Riles, I think. I don't know. Riholtz? I don't know how that's pronounced.

But she did write a little message and she is right. And it doesn't matter. The rest of it's fine. Whatever. Steve Schnell and his synergism. He's great. Janice Hill. Frank, the South African bird washer.

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Well, maybe they don't have swamp mule dicks. Let's hope not. Be frightened of them otherwise. Yeah. That said, thank you so much for joining us always on Crime and Sports and for crazy-ass Daryl Strawberry and live from the Crime and Sports studios, we will see you next week. Bye. Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Crime and Sports early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery Plus and Apple Podcasts.

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