Freshly inked by the Kansas City Royals, Pat White, at long last, did a little conference call this week and addressed all the pertinent matters. Namely, Denard Robinson, Rich Rodriguez, the Miami Dolphins, WVU and, eventually, life as a baseball player again.

Pat’s an interesting guy in that he’s presents himself to be very humble and gracious and reserved — and that’s not an act, not at all — but he’s slo extremely confident, he could be a bit grouchy and he made point to sometimes make points.

Witness White v. Preston Smith, the Louisville linebacker who “allegedly” spit on White, and denied it, only for White to prett much call Smith a liar. White never forgot that and, I though, never liked the way Louisville conducted its end of that situation. You’ll remember he liked to tease Louisville. Remember the very non-Pat White snapping-my-fingers-while-I-score-this-TD from 2008?

Free from — or is it freed from? — football, one would wonder if White would have something to say about the way his NFL career was handled.

But the battle was too much to win. Physically he didn’t fit any kind of NFL mold. His passing was good, but not exceptional. A severe concussion cutting short his rookie year didn’t help matters any.

Whether he had a real chance to prove himself with Miami is up in the air. He has his own idea about it and says, “Mine’s mine, yours is yours, the Dolphins’ is theirs, and so on and so on.”

In the end, a couple of weeks back, he was cut.

Immediately, he began looking at options. The USFL was one, Canadian football another, trying out for yet another NFL team still remains a possibility.

But in Kansas City, the baseball Royals director of baseball operations Lonnie Goldberg, had a thought. He recalled that White was at one time a big-time prospect. He began calling around, checking on what kind of person he was, getting nothing but rave reviews on his character.

“I thought everyone in baseball would be on him,” Goldberg said in an interview Tuesday.