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Yankees News For January 12
Topic Started: Jan 12 2005, 08:27 AM (20 Views)
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Long day for a tall Yankee
January 12
New York Daily News: Before he thanked George Steinbrenner or said how happy he was to finally be in pinstripes, Randy Johnson tried a new pitch yesterday - asking for forgiveness.
"The situation (on Monday), it was unprofessional," he said in reference to his run-in with a TV cameraman and a Daily News photographer on his way to take a physical in midtown.
"Obviously I feel very foolish today at such a great moment of my career that I would have to stand before you and apologize for my actions. Hopefully it's water under the bridge. I'm sorry. ... I hope I can move on and get another chance to prove that I'm worth coming here."
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This Time, Johnson Lets Cameras Roll
January 12
New York Time: On big days at Yankee Stadium this summer, Randy Johnson will bring his fastball, his slider and his scowl. On his big day there yesterday, Johnson brought an apology.
He was a 6-foot-10 thesaurus for ways to say "I'm sorry."
Unprofessional. Foolish. Uncalled for. Embarrassed. On his first day as a Yankee, Johnson used all those words to apologize for shoving a television camera during a confrontation with a cameraman Monday while walking down Madison Avenue on his way to take a physical.
The shove covered the front pages of the New York tabloids - The New York Post called him Big Jerk - and before Johnson said anything else at his introductory news conference yesterday, he tried to make amends.
"I'm coming to one of the biggest media markets and one of the winningest franchises in the history of any sport, and that's the way I enter?" Johnson said after several questions about the incident. "I'm sorry. I don't know how many more times I can say that."
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Johnson ready to join the rivalry
January 12
Boston Herald: Randy Johnson said he has `no idea' whether he'll be facing former teammate Curt Schilling on opening night in New York. But the newest Yankee said yesterday he is looking forward to being part of the greatest rivalry in sports. I have a great appreciation for the history of the game. It's really hard to put into words a rivalry like that,'' Johnson said during his formal introduction at Yankee Stadium. ``It will be something new to me.
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Steinbrenner Hits the Ceiling for Spending by the Yankees
January 12
New York Times: RANDY JOHNSON was at Yankee Stadium yesterday and Carlos Beltran wasn't. The image was the most dramatic demonstration that yes, Scott, the Yankees really do have a spending ceiling.
Who can remember the last time the Yankees, because of money, passed up a star they otherwise would have added to their lineup or their pitching staff? No one, because there has been no other time. Whatever George wanted, George got.
The times they are a-changing.
Commissioner Bud Selig and the other owners should be thrilled. The luxury tax on payrolls they fought for in the previous two labor negotiations has inhibited Steinbrenner's spending, and that was the primary aim of the entire exercise, including the disastrous strike in 1994 and '95.
The idea was to check the spending of all teams, but especially those that might exceed a certain payroll level. The tax has worked with most teams, but the Yankees, the primary target, had resisted giving in to it.
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Hot Stove Feast
January 12
New York Post: CARLOS Beltran was convivial, Randy Johnson contrite. Beltran came across as the Mets' new Big Man on Campus, stumping for a franchise tomorrow full of athleticism, excitement and winning. Johnson acted like the Big Eunuch, so sorry about his behavior from the previous day that he seemed to lack his familiar, uh, virility.
In their own ways, both Beltran and Johnson struck the proper pose yesterday in the two-borough double-header of introductory press conferences. Beltran was humble, god-fearing and, despite worries about his timidity, handled the swarm of interest as if it was a routine flyball. Johnson was apologetic, stone-faced and, despite frets about his crankiness, navigated this uncomfortable hazing with just one minor brush toward the media.
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Yankee stove hottest
January 12
New York Daily News: Brian Cashman had to smile at all the talk yesterday about the Yankees and Mets, about this escalating, inter-borough war of headlines. He knew it was nonsense. Cashman doesn't worry about the Mets. They play on a different planet, Queens, and in a different universe, the National League.
The Mets signed Carlos Beltran. No biggie. The 2005 ticket sales at Yankee Stadium were still 250,000 ahead of last year's record numbers and Randy Johnson jerseys were selling for $125 and $175 at the Yankee Store, corner of home plate and the Major Deegan.
"We'll meet them six times," Cashman said about the Mets, inadvertently dismissing the possibility of a Subway Series. "This town's big enough for both. Our focus is on the Red Sox. They've got the banner and the rings. They've got something we want, and we've got to get that back. It's frustrating. We had them on the ropes, had a three-game cushion and couldn't put them away."
Cashman frets about the Red Sox 16 waking hours a day, then suffers Game 4 visions at 2 or 3 in the morning. But when Johnson showed up yesterday and pulled the microphone up, up, up to accommodate his cartoon-like, string-bean frame, it sure looked as if the Yankees were about nine months from ending those recurring nightmares.
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Eye of storm where Ch. 2 earns payoff
January 12
New York Daily News: Rodgers was talking to another TV guy about his Ch. 2 colleague, Duke Castiglione, and that stiff-arm Randy Johnson put on his cameraman Vinny Everett on Monday.
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Randy Curt on Schill
January 12
New York Daily News: For years they were the best 1-2 punch in baseball, but now Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling are opposing faces in sport's greatest rivalry.
It has the potential to elevate the fever-pitch of Yankees-Red Sox. The teams played played two of the most-captivating series for the last two AL pennants and will face each other to open the baseball season April 3 at the Stadium. Imagine if it's Johnson versus Schilling.
The dream matchup may not materialize right away. Schilling is rehabbing from ankle surgery to repair the injury he overcame to lead the Red Sox's run past the Yankees and to the World Series crown. But Johnson knows they will be seeing each other.
"We had some great moments in history together and I am sure if not Opening Day somewhere along the line we will meet up," Johnson said. "He's a great competitor as you guys have witnessed and that's one thing I admire about him."
Johnson and Schilling were co-MVPs of the Diamondbacks' 2001 World Series victory over the Yankees. There has been widespread speculation that Johnson doesn't care for Schilling, though the lefty said yesterday they keep in touch.
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Despite The Rumors, Giambi Will Be In Tampa
January 12
New York Post: Jason Giambi will be with the Yankees for spring training, Brian Cashman said yesterday.
Speculation was that the Yankees would try to trade Giambi after a newspaper reported that the first baseman admitted to the use of steroids during grand jury testimony in California.
Giambi had an awful 2004 season because of health problems that reportedly included a pituitary gland tumor.
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