Jays manager John Gibbons challenged Hillenbrand to fight
After Shea Hillenbrand wrote on the clubhouse bulletin board that the “ship was sinking,” Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons challenged him to a fight.
There was no brawl, but the tense relationship between the two reached the breaking point during a team meeting Wednesday night. Gibbons was adamant that he would’ve quit if Hillenbrand wasn’t cut.
“That’s a fact. That’s how the whole thing got started,” Gibbons said before Thursday night’s game against the Yankees. “I told him he won’t see the field as long as I’m here.”
Kudos to Gibbons for weathering this one - usually when the manager of a team sitting at third in their division gets into it with one of his star players and tells the front office “him or me” it ends with the manager laying on his couch, watching Oprah and eating bon-bons.
And for the record, Gibbons could have totally taken him. No man named “Shea” has a prayer in a fight.
