Sports This Time It’s Personal: Baseball’s Greatest Retaliations

You know the Chicago Way, right? Not surprisingly, it seems Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen does. Over the weekend, Oz delivered a new edict to opposing pitchers: hit one of his guys, he’ll hit two of yours.

This is mostly a case of Ozzie being Ozzie, as most major league managers will back up their players by retaliating for hit batsmen. Still, it’s not often that a skipper will actually articulate his plans for revenge (much less double the ante), so not surprisingly, Guillen’s comments have gotten the attention of MLB’s disciplinarians. And of course Ozzie’s got our attention (we love to watch dude’s pound each other in the backside), so we looked back on Baseball’s 5 Greatest Retaliations…