Looks Only A Mother Could Love

The details of Randy Johnson’s child support payments to the mother of a 16-year-old he fathered and the controversy surrounding the issue are not terribly interesting. What you will not be able to shake, however, is this visual:

[Laurel] Roszell claims that Johnson — who later married and had four children with his wife, Lisa — has ignored Heather’s written pleas to meet him.

“He hurts her feelings,” she said.

The hot-tempered future Hall of Famer, who is a born-again Christian, has seen Heather only once — right after her out-of-wedlock birth in 1989, and he demanded a paternity test when Roszell first sought child support in 1998.

The 6-foot-1 high-school student “looks like him, walking and talking, a young girl with attitude,” said Roszell, who is married and has a son. [Emph. added to make sure that his Yankee teammates can tease him about this in the locker room this season]