TAMPA—First game back . . . get hit on the foot by 100 m.p.h. pitcher Aroldis Chapman . . . get ripped for your bat flip by Hall of Famer Rich “Goose” Gossage . . . downplay talk about your contract demands . . . yup, just another day at the office for Jose Bautista.

Well, this is spring training after all, and an already event-filled start for Bautista — based on his reported contract demand — was kicked into another, crazy gear by Gossage.

“He’s entitled to his opinion, I don’t agree with it, but I won’t try and pick fights with people. He had a reason to believe it, and I’d love to hear it. We all have reasons and agendas but I won’t pick a fight with a Hall of Famer,” Bautista said, in response to an expletive-filled rant by Gossage on Bautista’s playoff game bat flip last fall.

The view, shared by some major leaguers young and old, is that it disrespected the game and its unwritten code about showing up the opposition.

Bautista, who went popup, strikeout, hit by pitch by Chapman, in his first game of the spring, was in for an otherwise routine game until Gossage gave a 10-minute interview with ESPN senior baseball writer Andrew Marchand.

“Bautista is a f---ing disgrace to the game,” Gossage told ESPN.

“He’s embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him . . . throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto . . . (Yoenis Cespedes) same thing.”

Gossage, who starred for the Yankees in the 1970s, including nine all-star appearances and a 1973 World Series championship, also said he would have been seriously reprimanded by teammates had he performed the same acts back when he played.

It didn’t stop there. He also took aim at the use of analytics in baseball.

“The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it,” Gossage told ESPN.

“I’ll tell you what has happened, these guys played Rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don’t know s---.”

Gossage kicked off a massive wave of response and debate on Twitter about lingering “old school” philosophies losing their place with today’s athlete and sports fans.

Washington Nationals superstar Bryce Harper, 23, told ESPN The Magazine recently that baseball is “tired, it’s a tired game,” because of the weight of those old school philosophies still impact thinking and responses directed at emotional outbursts from the modern athlete.

“I think it (emotion), should play a role in every sport and in life,” Bautista said when Harper’s comments were mentioned Thursday.

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“It’s hard to go through things with a poker face, as if nothing happened. I don’t think that’s possible, I don’t think it’s human (to not respond emotionally) . . . you’d become numb doing that. There’s (battles) and you’re supposed to respond. Some are good at keeping it inside and some use it to get a higher level of focus out of themselves. I think Bryce is a little like that and I know I’m like that.”

In making his first spring start, Bautista was also speaking for the first time since a tweet on the MLB Network suggested he had softened his “no negotiations” stance on his contract in an effort to remain with the Jays.

“I’m not talking about my contract,” Bautista said, adding that he’s fine, no damage, after Chapman sent a wicked slider off his shoe top.

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