How are you spending time during the MLB lockout? If you typically depend on the Hot Stove to keep you warm throughout the winter months ahead of pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training, times are tough right now.

No big-league deals can take place and there doesn’t seem to be any significant progress toward a resolution at the moment, so there’s no clear end in sight. With that said, it’s important for us to stay busy and get our daily dosage of baseball highlights from somewhere, right? Rob Friedman of @PitchingNinja has done an excellent job of keeping us occupied during this weird offseason. Over the weekend, he spent some time admiring the greatness that is Dwight Gooden‘s curveball, also known as Lord Charles.

Thankfully, he graced us with some clips to wet our respective whistles, and they were incredibly fun to watch. First, we can see just how similar the flights were for his fastball and curveball before the latter started to bend. The poor soul at the plate for this one was Bo Diaz:

Next, he made Pete Rose — you know, MLB’s hit king — look like he totally forgot how to hit a baseball with this curve. That’s followed up by Doc doing some horrible, no good, not very nice things to Pedro Guerrero throughout the course of an at-bat:

By simply looking at the statistics, Gooden’s tenure with the Mets was incredible. Between 1984 and 1993, Doc averaged a 15-8 record with a 3.04 ERA and 1.17 WHIP over the course of 213 innings per season. He recorded at least 10 victories nine times, along with accumulating at least 4.0 fWAR on seven different occasions. His first two years with New York in ’83 and ’84 were his most dominant from the standpoint of fWAR, as he crested over the 8.0 mark both times. His efforts were rewarded with NL Rookie of the Year and Cy Young honors in consecutive years.

On the Mets’ all-time fWAR leaderboard, Gooden’s 52.1 fWAR ranks second to Tom Seaver, who put together 67.7 fWAR during his time donning the orange and blue.