Ozzie Guillen challenges MLB writer to fight after being criticized

Guillen then fired back at Heyman in a series of tweets.

“Hate me why?” wrote Guillen. “Because of bad English? Because I won? Am loud? Good looking? Rich? I don’t need to insult anyone to get a job. Maybe you think I do. Tired you putting me down. Maybe you think you can because your privilege and I am not?

“I have always defended Tony because I love the guy in many ways. So don’t talk s–t without knowing who I talk to and what I say,” Guillen continued in another tweet (profanity edited by LBS). “My wife will be piss[ed] and I have changed but you asked for it. You clown. You will never be better then [sic] anything you do in life including tv. Payaso.”

Finally, Guillen said that he was tired of Heyman using him as a “punching bag” and challenged him to throw some actual punches. He invited Heyman to get in “the ring” for a charity fight.

Guillen, who managed in the league for nine years, is now 58, and Heyman is even older at 61. That means a fight will almost certainly never happen.

But it is already plenty entertaining to see the notoriously acid-tongued Guillen popping off again, a full decade after he last managed at the MLB level. Heyman now gets to join this fellow baseball writer as the lucky recipients of an all-time online rant from Guillen.