ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Chip Ganassi just wanted to watch a Yankees game, not dodge a brush-back pitch from his biggest rival. The president of Team Penske aimed his barbs high and tight at Ganassi, and now IndyCar's top two organizations are embroiled in a back-and-forth verbal spat that quickly spiced up the series' version of Opening Day. It began when Penske President Tim Cindric said Penske and Ganassi have an ''intense competition'' instead of a rivalry because ''rivalries take place over a long period of time.'' ''If you want to think of it in baseball terms, it would be the Yankees and the (Miami) Marlins - a team with a long history against a younger team that came on strong and won a couple of World Series,'' Cindric told USA Today. That didn't sit well at all at Chip Ganassi Racing, which has won five of the last six IndyCar championships and three Indianapolis 500s since 2008.
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