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ATTN: RED SOX FANS - The Darkest Canuck - 04-03-2005
IT HAS BEGUN! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Johnson dominates Sox in Bronx debut
Associated Press
4/3/2005
NEW YORK (AP) - The tallest Yankee ever began the big task of putting the Boston Red Sox back in their place.
Randy Johnson shut down Boston in his New York debut, dominating his new team's old rival. He outpitched David Wells, got help from Hideki Matsui and a rejuvenated Jason Giambi and led the Yankees over the World Series champions 9-2 Sunday night in the major league opener.
Already, there were bad omens for the Red Sox: Matsui leaped in left to rob Kevin Millar of a two-run homer in the third, Giambi stretched to reel in two bad throws by shortstop Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez made a diving stop at third on Edgar Renteria, and Tino Martinez made a backhand dive at first to prevent an extra-base hit by Johnny Damon.
By the time Matsui hit a two-run homer off Matt Mantei for a 8-1 lead in the eighth, it was almost piling on.
With Boston taking the field as champions for the first time in 86 years, the Red Sox returned to the scene of their improbable triumph staring directly at the 6-foot-10 Big Unit, brought to the Bronx to help the Yankees win their first title since 2000.
Giambi, back at first base following injury, illness and a reported admission of steroid use, received a pair of standing ovations from the sellout crowd of 54,818 and went 1-for-2 with a single and two hit-by-pitches.
Gary Sheffield, back from offseason shoulder surgery, hit a go-ahead single in a three-run third inning against Wells, and Martinez received two huge ovations in his first game in pinstripes since 2001.
Since New York moved within three outs of sweeping the Red Sox in the AL championship series last October, the Red Sox had won eight straight, becoming the first major league team to overcome a 3-0 postseason deficit, then blowing out St. Louis in the World Series.
But following an offseason of joy in New England, the Red Sox started with a thud, pitching poorly, making a pair of errors and losing their fifth straight season opener. New York had 15 hits off Wells and six relievers.
The usual swells and celebrities were on hand to watch the Yankees extend their winning streak in home openers to eight. A sign in left field expressed the hope of New York fans - '1918-2004-2090' - referring to the years of Boston's last two Series titles and projected date of its next.
Johnson was a model of quiet focus hours before the game, putting on a black undershirt, then a gray sweat shirt before sitting in front of his new locker near manager Joe Torre's office and looking ahead, gathering his thoughts.
Hitting Johnson is, well, a tall order -- the New Yorker's playful front-page cartoon of him on the mound cut off at the neck.
He opened with a 93 mph pitch to Damon, and struck out Renteria and Manny Ramirez looking in the first, the latter on a smoking 97 mph heater. He got in trouble in the second, when Matsui grabbed Millar's fly ball and Jay Payton singled in the season's first run.
But Bernie Williams' sacrifice fly tied the score in the bottom half, and New York took a 4-1 lead in the third on Sheffield's double, Matsui's RBI single and a bases-loaded balk by Wells, who stepped back to start his windup and then stopped.
Rodriguez, vilified by Boston during the offseason and spring training, added a run-scoring single in the sixth off Blaine Neal and scored on Ruben Sierra's double.
Johnson allowed the one run and five hits in six innings and struck out six. Tanyon Sturtze and Tom Gordon finished with one-hit relief.
Wells, who pitched a perfect game for New York in 1998 and helped the Yankees win the World Series that year, was starting in place of Curt Schilling, his bloody sock in the Hall of Fame and the ankle it surrounded still recovering from surgery that followed the title.
Signed to fill the gap created by the departures of Pedro Martinez and Matt Clement, Wells made a shaky debut, allowing four runs and 10 hits in 4 1-3 innings.
It was a night of milestones - the first night opener at Yankee Stadium, the first time the Red Sox played as defending champions since 1919, when they opened with a 10-0 win over New York at the Polo Grounds behind a Babe Ruth home run.
Johnson made his 13th opening-day start, tying Roger Clemens for the lead among active pitchers.
New York, with the first $200 million payroll in baseball history, had a former All-Star in every spot in its starting lineup, the first time that happened in the major leagues since the Yankees did it on July, 24, 2003, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. In all, it added up to 53 All-Star appearances.
Notes: Flags were at half-staff and a moment of silence was observed one day after the death of Pope John Paul II, who celebrated mass at Yankee Stadium in 1979.
9-2! BOOOOM-SHAKA-LAKA! HAHAHA! :lol:
- tragicallymike - 04-04-2005
haha you yankee fans crack me up. I LOVE BEING PART OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONS!!! YOU WILL PROBABLY WIN THE NEXT 2 AND THEN LOSE 4 IN A ROW IN TRUE YANKEE FASHION.
- j-monster - 04-04-2005
Waaaaaaaaay too early to be crowing after one win.
Yankee fans... :roll:
- cferneyh - 04-04-2005
I don't know if anyone has reminded you lately so I will: THE 2004 YANKEES PULLED THE GREATEST CHOKE IN THE HISTORY OF MLB. So yeah, go ahead and brag about game 1 of 162.
- The Darkest Canuck - 04-04-2005
i don't if anyone has reminded you lately so i will: THIS IS 2005! EPISODE 2K5: THE EMPIRE STIKES BACK!
- tragicallymike - 04-04-2005
The Darkest Canuck Wrote:i don't if anyone has reminded you lately so i will: THIS IS 2005! EPISODE 2K5: THE EMPIRE STIKES BACK!
You are the biggest dork ever.
- The Darkest Canuck - 04-04-2005
at least I'm not a Sabres fan :roll:
- tragicallymike - 04-04-2005
The Darkest Canuck Wrote:at least I'm not a Sabres fan :roll:
Thanks for proving my point.
- The Darkest Canuck - 04-04-2005
w/e you say Buffalo Bill, go put on your woman suit and play with your sissy lookin dog...
- thipfan73 - 04-04-2005
The Darkest Canuck Wrote:w/e you say Buffalo Bill, go put on your woman suit and play with your sissy lookin dog...
WAIT A MINUTE!
I'm a habs fan and so are you darkest!!! I'm also a sox fan and even if I wasn't, I'd still hate the yankees and even if I didn't hate the yankees I'd still say you are WAY too early to brag. Since I was an expos fan for 25 years I understand how a team can totally kick ass and then fold like a lawn chair in august.
I always wanted my Expos to go to the series and win but you know what, they never did. They could have in 1994, but the strike happened and from then on, it killed my team. I just loved my team. It had nothing to do with how many titles they won, I just LOVED the Expos. Be happy your team has won so many titles!
Be proud your team won, there's nothing wrong with that, but bragging all ready! Just give it some time. Baseball is not only about talent and money, it's also about physics, variables and just dumb luck.
It's Yankee fans like you who give the rest of the yankee fans a bad name, which if I think about it, isn't too hard.
- The Darkest Canuck - 04-04-2005
listen here, i'm sick of hearing about the Boston Red Sox, so I decided to make a thread about the Yankees handing them their asses on opening day...if the Red Sox hammer us then you go ahead and do the same, but until then, deal with it. A 9-2 thumping on opening day is definately thread-worthy IMO, especially in light of how last year ended for the pin stripes.
- cferneyh - 04-04-2005
You are sick of hearing about the Red Sox? Why? Because the Yankees pulled the BIGGEST CHOKE IN THE HISTORY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL against them? Guess I'd be sick of hearing about them too if I was a bandwagon hop.......errrrr........Yankee fan.
- thipfan73 - 04-04-2005
The Darkest Canuck Wrote:listen here, i'm sick of hearing about the Boston Red Sox, so I decided to make a thread about the Yankees handing them their asses on opening day...if the Red Sox hammer us then you go ahead and do the same, but until then, deal with it. A 9-2 thumping on opening day is definately thread-worthy IMO, especially in light of how last year ended for the pin stripes.
I'm sick of hearing about the Yankees!! EVEN WHEN I WAS AN EXPOS FAN! Ya know, the red sox deserve every word of praise they deserve because they worked their assess off to win the series! The first win in 86 years! Their losing streak for the series was as old as my Grandfather! That's worth talking about! Anyone who wins the series deserves praise but what the Red Sox did was against the odds!
Yes, you're proud of your team for winning! That's fine, just don't think your team is "coming back" because they won ONE STINKING GAME! Don't throw it in our faces by saying "attn red sox fans
- The Darkest Canuck - 04-04-2005
cferneyh Wrote:You are sick of hearing about the Red Sox? Why? Because the Yankees pulled the BIGGEST CHOKE IN THE HISTORY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL against them? Guess I'd be sick of hearing about them too if I was a bandwagon hop.......errrrr........Yankee fan.
you're still playing that bandwagon bs on me? is that how you compensate for having an extremely small impotent penis? by attacking other people's character? sad, almost as sad as the faces of Sox fans will be come playoff time, but not quite...i've been a Yankees fan since i could sing "New York New York" (15 years and running). The only bandwagon's I've ever hopped on were the Jays' and the Flames', and if you tell me you didn't too you're full of shit.
- tragicallymike - 04-04-2005
The Darkest Canuck Wrote:cferneyh Wrote:You are sick of hearing about the Red Sox? Why? Because the Yankees pulled the BIGGEST CHOKE IN THE HISTORY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL against them? Guess I'd be sick of hearing about them too if I was a bandwagon hop.......errrrr........Yankee fan.
you're still playing that bandwagon bs on me? is that how you compensate for having an extremely small impotent penis? by attacking other people's character? sad, almost as sad as the faces of Sox fans will be come playoff time, but not quite...i've been a Yankees fan since i could sing "New York New York" (15 years and running). The only bandwagon's I've ever hopped on were the Jays' and the Flames', and if you tell me you didn't too you're full of shit.
Why dont you make up a distant relatives name and just tell everyone he played for the yankees.