Wasted Quarter Presents: Darryl Strawberry
You know, just to stay on the safe side, don't read this story. It's really stupid... "Hey you God Damn Dood! When are you going to write about Darryl Strawberry?" Hmmmm... I don't know... I've never thought of it... Doktor John sent me that text a couple of years ago now. I'd started writing this story almost immediately after I read it, but that was well over two and a half years ago now. Doktor John not being a baseball fan, surprised me with the reference. Darryl Strawberry was a hobby megastar during the first half of the Junk Wax Era, but I wasn't a collector of his cards. Not because I hated the Mets or anything. After all, my favorite player of that era was a New York Met... And a near-member of the 1994 Minnesota Twins! (in Spring Training only...) But Darryl Strawberry wasn’t much of a blip on my baseball following radar. The Mets were a National League team, and in those days, you didn’t see the National League in an American League city. Th