Shea Hillenbrand Still Doesn't Like Toronto

Everyone knows A-Rod and Jeter's rocky relationship in New York, and apparently the Pirates' Jack Wilson and Jose Castillo recently needed to clear the air. Gary Sheffield is still upset with Joe Torre, and Travis Hafner doesn't like Casey Blake's choice in music.

Seriously, when the the major leagues become seventh grade? The amount of he-said/she-said drama is off the charts, especially now with Shea Hillenbrand still lobbing bombs at his former team in Toronto. From an interview with the Toronto Sun published Wednesday:

Hillenbrand remembers being in the training room at Rogers Centre after a game early in 2005.

"J.P. comes in ranting, knocking Vernon for a lack of work ethic and saying how he couldn't stand Eric Hinske," Hillenbrand said. "I hardly knew the GM and he's saying this to me?"

Hillenbrand spoke of a dugout scene against the New York Yankees in 2005 when Alex Rios didn't run out a ball and Gibbons lifted Rios from the game.

"The manager had the situation under control; at the end of the inning in comes (third base coach) Brian Butterfield, he's yelling, swearing, hitting the Gatorade bucket and crapping on Rios.

"I tap him and say 'it's okay, John handled it,' and Butterfield turns and goes off on me. We didn't need him distracting everyone. (Butterfield) said later I didn't know him well enough to say anything to him."

After hearing about the interview, Hillenbrand's former Blue Jays teammates responded with relative indifference, much to the dismay of reporters following the team, who, I'm sure, would have loved another middle school storyline to pursue.