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Patrick Mahomes and a great story about Jack Morris being a jerk
Posted on 9/19/18 at 11:34 am
Posted on 9/19/18 at 11:34 am
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If, like me, you pay little attention to sports that are not baseball, you might not know that the son of former big league reliever Pat Mahomes — Patrick Mahomes — is the quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Today, over at Peter King’s Football Morning in America, King, not surprisingly, talks about Mahomes. In so doing he relates a Jack Morris anecdote which is so very on-brand for Jack Morris. And another one about a circa-2003 A-Rod which is not exactly on-brand for him.
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King spoke with the elder Mahomes and asked him about the sort of mentoring young Patrick has been getting. Pat spoke highly of coach Andy Reid but spoke even more highly of Alex Smith, whose job Mahomes ended up taking. Smith, both Mahomes men said, made it a point to teach the younger Mahomes everything he knew to prepare him for the task ahead. King:
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Dads understand and appreciate help given to their children. So Pat Mahomes told Smith several times last year how much he appreciated what he did for his boy. Unspoken was the fact that they both knew Patrick was there to take Smith’s job.
“That’s what’s so admirable about what Alex did all season for him,” Pat Mahomes said. “I know how it was when I came up [to the Minnesota Twins, in 1992]. I remember one time that year asking Jack Morris how he threw his split-finger fastball. He said, ‘Get away from me, you little MF. You’ll be trying to take my job next year.’ ”
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It’s probably worth remembering that Morris also famously made a deal with his late-career teams in which he did not have to show up for the games in which he was not pitching so he could go home to his farm. At this point I’ll also note that, when I was ten, I met Morris at a baseball card show. I asked him if he was pitching that night and he said, no, Glenn Abbott was. Then he proceeded to tell me — a kid! — that Abbott stunk and that he was not confident that the team would win that night. Which is to say: wow, what a teammate Jack Morris was!
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Mahomes senior was not done relating baseball anecdotes to King:
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When Patrick was 6, in 2001, his father played for the Texas Rangers. Alex Rodriguez was a first-year Ranger, having signed a $252-million deal to move from Seattle. “Alex would take Patrick down to the cage, and he’d take batting practice, and then he’d break down the tape with Patrick and teach him about his swing. Patrick loves A-Rod,” Pat Mahomes said. “Being around those clubhouses was great for him. It taught him the value of hard work in sports, and how professional athletes should act.”
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So, in short: Jack Morris was kind of a jerk and A-Rod was really cool to a teammate’s kid.
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Posted on 9/19/18 at 11:38 am to SPEEDY
Jack Morris is notorious for being a dickhead.
Can't remember who it was but he had a run in with a female reporter in the locker room one time.
Can't remember who it was but he had a run in with a female reporter in the locker room one time.
Posted on 9/19/18 at 11:39 am to SPEEDY
I’m actually not that surprised about ARod. I never thought he was bad intentioned or a jerk. Narcissistic and awkward as hell? Sure. Overall though he seems like a pretty good person and father.
This post was edited on 9/19/18 at 11:41 am
Posted on 9/19/18 at 11:52 am to TT9
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Jack Morris is notorious for being a dickhead.
Yep. BlackJack Morris.
Another colossal ahole was Ted Williams. Saw him at a sports memorabilia show back in the early 80s. He signed a ball for this 12 year old kid and rolled it off the table where the kid had to run chase it down. Williams laughed at him while he scrambled after it.
Posted on 9/19/18 at 11:56 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
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I’m actually not that surprised about ARod. I never thought he was bad intentioned or a jerk. Narcissistic and awkward as hell? Sure. Overall though he seems like a pretty good person and father.
I completely agree, he never seemed like a bad person. Maybe a little douchey at times, but he's one of the richest professional athletes of all time. I'd guess most people would be absolutely insufferable in his position
Posted on 9/19/18 at 12:10 pm to SPEEDY
None of that surprises me.
I've never really heard anything bad about A-Rod as a person, it's just easy to get hated on when you're signing record breaking contracts, then getting out of them early to sign another one with the Yankees. And the PEDs, of course.
I've never really heard anything bad about A-Rod as a person, it's just easy to get hated on when you're signing record breaking contracts, then getting out of them early to sign another one with the Yankees. And the PEDs, of course.
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