Yankees fans won't let Giants erase dominance after insane 'Opening Day' post

MLB decided the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants would be better off making Opening Day a night. Fine. Weird, but fine. Unfortunately, someone's got to tell the Giants they only get one opener, and that pretending the first day game is the real Opening Day isn't going to fly.

On Thursday, the Giants went tone-deaf on social media, hard launching "Opening Day starter" Robbie Ray with the caption, "SF Giants Opening Day is Robbie Ray's day!"

And it would've been! If, you know, Ray had pitched the opener. That one was started by a WBC-cursed version of Logan Webb, and the visiting Yankees, in front of a bloodthirsty crowd, blew the doors off in the second inning, sprinting to a 5-0 lead.

Or maybe the crowd wasn't that thirsty? After all, it wasn't really Opening Da -- no. No, don't get trapped. It was. It happened. I saw it. There were taxi cabs and the Usos were there and Jameis Winston fed hot dogs to Max Fried. You aren't allowed to pretend that didn't happen if I had to sit through it (with a victorious smile on my face).

Giants try to erase memory of Yankees' Opening Day win, but Robbie Ray can't run from it

Calling Game 2 a fresh start is one thing. Calling it Opening Day is legitimately crazy. Doling out dueling Opening Night and Opening Day honors is Assistant to the Regional Manager-level nonsense.

The Yankees and Giants "Opening Day starter" Robbie Ray do have a history, though, and it's one he'd probably like to forget. At the tail end of his Cy Young-winning 2021 season, one of the craziest outliers in recent memory, Ray had a chance at the home dome in Toronto to vaporize the reeling Yankees and destroy their playoff path.

It didn't work. He and the Blue Jays fell 6-2 in his final start of the regular season, as he allowed five runs on four homers. It was also his final start of the season entirely, as that one implosion made all the difference between the Jays reaching the postseason and spending the winter cold. If you're left wondering why Jays fans have had such strange energy over their past year of dominance against the Yankees, it's because they were previously the only team in the AL East that Aaron Boone routinely pummeled in big moments, and Ray was a major player in that process.

Expect the Yankees to change up the lineup and start Amed Rosario (and potentially Randal Grichuk/Paul Goldschmidt) to take advantage of the lefty on the mound. They can feel free to make those shifts, given that there's nothing ceremonial about the lineup. It's not Opening Day, after all.