Some shows are more memorable than others. Mike Francesa isn’t likely to forget his show Wednesday.

Neil Best of Newsday talked to the WFAN host about his surprise guest: Alex Rodriguez. Francesa said he received 20-minutes notice that the shamed Yankee was on his way to the studio after abruptly walking out of a hearing. By the interview, the interview was simulcast on the Yankees’ YES Network also airs Francesa’s show.

From the story:

There were times the tone got a tad chummier than it needed to, but the questions and answers were to the point.

“I felt like I asked him every hard question you could possibly ask him,” Francesa said in a phone interview after the show. “I don’t think there’s anything I could ask him about that wasn’t asked.”

Francesa knows he still will be accused by some of offering Rodriguez an overly friendly forum, but he said he is not bothered by that.

“When you’re the big guy and have been the big guy as long as I have, you’re going to get it from every angle; I’m used to that,” he said, adding Rodriguez presumably chose him because of his large audience, because the two have known each other for many years and because A-Rod believed he would get a fair hearing.

Later, Best writes:

“I was surprised how keyed up he was; I could tell he was really angry,” Francesa said. “He almost started to cry the first time he started to talk. I could see his eyes welling up . . . His lip was quivering and I actually thought he was going to cry. But he looked me in the eye every time.”

Francesa said there were no preconditions, and that he only preplanned one aspect of the interview in his own mind.

“If he gave me an opening I was going to go for what I knew was the headline, which is, did you or did you not use performance-enhancing drugs?” Francesa said. “When he answered so definitively and boldly the first time and didn’t dodge it at all, I knew it would be a very open topic.”

Stay tuned for more on how the New York Daily News covered the interview.