TRENTON -- Not only does Gov. Chris Christie have no regrets over getting in the face of a heckler at a baseball Sunday that made national headlines, the governor took another shot at the man on Wednesday, suggesting he wimped out.

The governor also insisted he showed a level of self-control, 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."

Christie's latest reaction to getting up close and personal with a heckler at a major league baseball game over the weekend came after a reporter asked the governor at a public event in Trenton whether he planned to "swear off going to baseball games" given the negative attention he got from a pair of games last month.

"No, I'll go more," a defiant Christie said.

Speaking about the latest incident, the governor said he was glad to read the heckler, Brad Joseph, offered an apology of sorts in a lengthy Facebook post lengthy Facebook post about the exchange.

But he also defended his ability to push back.

"When I'm at a baseball game with my son on a Sunday afternoon, I do have a right to be able to sit there and enjoy the game," Christie said.

"The fact is I've made this my policy over eight years: I will take a certain amount of abuse. If you're a public official, you have to," he said. "But usually it's one. You get one shot to call me a name or curse me out. And I gave him that shot."

Christie made similar remarks earlier this week in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.

But he went a step further Wednesday, taking another shot at Joseph, who was at the game with a relative who's a reporter for the TV news station that first reported the incident.

"It's just stunning to me that people, when you're 10 or 15 yards away, they're very, very brave and they say anything," Christie said.

"But when you get right up in front of them and say, 'Ok, now it's your time, now it's your chance to say whatever you want to say, in a conversational tone, rather than screaming it so everybody else can hear it, people get incredibly quiet," he said. "You saw that video. He wasn't saying anything."

Christie added: "I think they think that they're going to be able to show off for their friends against a public figure and that the public figure ... is just going to have to sit there and be a punching bag."

The exchange occurred when Christie was in Milwaukee visiting his son, who works for the Brewers.

Earlier in July, Christie was booed by a crowd during a Mets' game when he caught a foul ball without leaving his seat.

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