MIAMI — Alex Rodriguez took his trip to Fantasyland during Sunday night’s ESPN broadcast, but reality called a day later.
Rodriguez said he wished he had followed his heart before the 2001 season and signed with the Mets, instead of accepting a historic $252 million deal with the Rangers. The All-Star shortstop and third baseman cited his love of the Mets and Keith Hernandez as a baseball fan growing up. On Monday, Jim Duquette — the Mets’ assistant general manager at the time — called it “revisionist history” on Rodriguez’s part to believe the Mets were in the realm of possibility for his services.