A.J. Pierzynski knows what it’s like to be Manny Machado.
Thanks to his cutthroat personality and ornery disposition during his playing career, the former White Sox catcher was Public Enemy No. 1 in baseball stadiums all across America.
So Pierzynski can relate to the Machado hate. He thrived at getting under the skin of his opposition.
But if you want to get under Pierzynski’s skin, don’t play the game hard everyday. Or even worse, publicly admit you don’t, like Machado did when he told The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal he’s not going to be “Johnny Hustle” on the baseball field.