Kind of, sort of, Johnson addresses Yankee rumors

DENVER – With the New York Yankees in town, Randy Johnson addressed the persistent speculation that he might find himself wearing pinstripes in the Big Apple.

He didn’t shut the door on the possibility he might someday accept a trade from the Arizona Diamondbacks, who insist they have no intention of dealing him to New York — or anywhere else.

“Right now, I’ve not been approached by either team,” Johnson said before Tuesday night’s series opener between the two teams that met in the dramatic 2001 World Series. “It’s kind of pointless. It’s almost the same question being asked in spring training? ‘How many more years am I going to play?’

“How can I address a question like that that’s something down the road?”

Later, in the clubhouse, Johnson said he’d thought of a one-liner he wished he’d have used.

“I should have said, ‘Yeah, but the clam chowder is better in Boston.’ “