原文連結 http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/content/sports/epaper/2009/06/20/ a6c_yankee_sider_0621.html Burnett expresses regret for exit as Marlin By CARLOS FRIAS, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 20, 2009 MIAMI GARDENS — The worst thing to happen to A.J. Burnett as a Marlin turned out to be one of the best things to happen to his former club. It's easy to remember the bad, the way his career ended here in 2005. The Marlins had just lost 5-3 to Atlanta with a week left in the season when Burnett lambasted his manager, Jack McKeon, the coaches and his teammates, saying, "We played scared. We managed scared. We coached scared." If there were any suspense about whether he would re-sign as a free agent, it ended with his rant. "It's depressing around here," he said at the time. "It's like they expect us to mess up. And when we do, they chew us out. There is no positive, nothing, around here for anybody." The next day he was suspended for the rest of the season. Instead of letting him make his last start, the Marlins called up a rookie to make his major-league debut: Josh Johnson. Before Burnett left, he told the rookie pitcher to "give 'em hell," Johnson remembers. More than three years later, Burnett and Johnson found themselves back in the storyline, as they faced each other at Land Shark Stadium, Burnett now with the Yankees, pitching here for the first time since he set fire to every bridge on the way out - an ending he now regrets. "I shouldn't have said what I said," Burnett said after taking the loss in Saturday's 2-1 game. "I don't think about the ending. I remember that they gave me my start. ... I was young and I've grown up a lot since then." On Saturday, he pitched 61/3 innings and allowed one earned run on five hits - one of them a Dan Uggla home run in the second inning that he called his "only mistake" of the night. He struck out eight, including three on just nine pitches. In the visitors' clubhouse, he seemed simply nostalgic. He asked the Marlins' clubhouse attendant, Bryan Greenberg, to borrow his 2003 World Series championship ring, just like the one he received when the Marlins defeated New York, to show several of his Yankees teammates. The Yankees have not been back to the World Series since the Marlins defeated them. But helping the Yankees return to the World Series for their own hardware has not been so easy for Burnett. After signing a five-year, $82 million contract with the Yankees in the off-season, he has been sporadic. He came into Saturday's game with a 5-3 record and a 4.46 ERA. "I think the biggest thing for A.J. is command," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "When he has his command, he's light's out. Usually. Pitchers go through that. ... People think you have a Nintendo controller in your back pocket, and you don't." --

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