There are very few players — if any — that I covered that were more emotional than Jorge Posada.
But he still caught me a little off guard, as I did him, apparently, when I asked him last week what it would mean to him if the day ever came he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
There was a long pause. And then a “Wow.”
“Just hearing those words from you … my heart kind of stopped a little bit,” Posada said.
“I don’t know, I don’t know.”
Another pause.
“I don’t know what would happen.