Things seemed to settle down -- until Christie blocked everybody's view, Joseph said.

That's when Joseph said he called Christie a "hypocrite."

Christie was so close that "I could feel his breath on my face as he shouted at me," Joseph wrote.

It was Chris Christie, up close and personal.

The Chicago Cubs fan who was involved in a confrontation with Christie on Sunday vented on Facebook that the New Jersey governor violated his personal space.

The fan, Brad Joseph, admitted he taunted Christie, though claims he was only piling on as the governor fetched nachos during a break in the action of the Cubs game in Milwaukee.

"Some other fans at the game were already heckling him, so I yelled his name and he turned around, at which point I shouted, 'You Suck!' and then I sat back down," Joseph wrote.

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Things seemed to settle down – until Christie blocked everybody's view, Joseph said.

"He got a few rows farther down from where I was sitting and he paused for awhile; there was nobody blocking his path and no reason for him to be blocking the aisle and our view of the game," he wrote.

That's when Joseph said he called Christie a "hypocrite." (Because of the George Washington Bridge lane closing scandal and Christie's use of the governor's beach house last month, Joseph also explained.)

Christie then climbed the steps back to Joseph, telling him, “Have another beer,” he said initially, according to Joseph.

Then Christie leaned in, called him a “big shot,” and a “tough guy,” and was so close that "I could feel his breath on my face as he shouted at me," Joseph wrote.

No punches were thrown and Joseph said in the post that he's sorry, though he did challenge Christie to a fight "under any standard rules you want, whether it's MMA, boxing, freestyle, folkstyle, or Greco-Roman wrestling. Just let me know if you still want to make this physical.''

In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Christie didn't seem interested in a fight – nor was he interested in apologizing.

He accused the heckler of saying "really awful things with a lot of children sitting around and my own son with me."

"I'm at a ballgame with my son enjoying the game, having no interaction with anybody on public policy or anything else, I don't think it's the right of anybody to stand up and swear at you and curse you out," Christie said.

Christie commented some more Wednesday during a press conference in Trenton on an unrelated topic.

He insisted he showed a level of self-control, according to NJ Advance Media, telling reporters that for "those of you who know me, I think I was fairly restrained."

Christie added: "I didn't dump the nachos on him or anything, which was an option."

Bob Jordan bjordan@gannettnj.com