Alex Rodriguez approached Randi Mahomes with a smile on his face and a joke to tell. This was 17 years ago. Randi’s son was a preschooler then. Just 5 years old. Closely cropped hair. Until a month or so ago, this was Rodriguez’s last memory of Patrick Mahomes.
Anyway, about the smile and the joke.
“You know,” Randi remembered Rodriguez saying. “People keep thinking this is my son.”
Rodriguez is a three-time MVP and is now a broadcaster for ESPN’s baseball coverage. That story Randi told was a flash across a 22-year career that included nearly 3,000 big-league games and dozens of kids through clubhouses, so you’ll excuse him if he did not immediately make the connection until a month or so ago.