Bernie Carbo's goons almost broke Keith Hernandez's arms?

Leonard Greene of the New York Post talks about Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez and how his career could have been ended sometime in the mid-80’s after he ratted out former teammate Bernie Carbo for introducing him to cocaine.

Carbo was best known for a pinch-hit home run he hit for the Boston Red Sox in 1975, sending Game 6 of the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds into extra innings.

Hernandez testified during a 1985 trial that Carbo had turned him onto cocaine and at the time Carbo wanted to punish his former teammate. He called thugs off after they convinced him that he would be easily implicated.

“I knew some people, and I had $2,000, and I asked them to break his arms,” Carbo told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” in an interview airing Sunday.

“When I went to an individual to have it done, he said, ‘We’ll do it in two or three years if you want it done, but we’re not going to do it today, Bernie. If we went and broke his legs today, or broke his arms, you don’t think they would understand that you are the one that had it done?’ ”