Wayne Randazzo’s road to Flushing started with a drive from Chicago to Nashville.
Far removed from the free-agent intrigue that defines baseball’s winter meetings — back when players signed before March — is a minor league job fair for those trying to break into the sport. That’s where Randazzo found himself in 2007. Inside the Opryland Hotel putting his résumé and demo tape in a pile with hundreds of other broadcasting hopefuls.
“It was a strange system, but I noticed the job seekers were in one room and the teams were in another, so I just went around that room and introduced myself to all the different teams and circumvented that whole process,” Randazzo said.