Miguel Cabrera headed out to sign some autographs before the Detroit Tigers' 8-6 win over the Chicago White Sox. With the game at U.S. Cellular Field, maybe he expected some heckling, but not from his own fans.

Apparently, Cabrera saw one Tigers fan with a "Fire Leyland" and took issue with the shot at his manager. He took the sign away from the man, who then began filming with his phone camera.

"Why would you take a great sign like that," the fan asked as Cabrera continued to sign autographs with the sign under one arm. "You don't like that sign?"

After a long pause, the man explains: "I've had my sign bogarted by Miguel Cabrera," before admitting, "It's better that way."

Not content with calling for Jim Leyland's head, he decided to take the awkward route of calling out Cabrera's teammates who have had less than stellar seasons.

"How do you feel about Don Kelly and Ryan Raburn playing in this pennant race, Miguel?"

Cabrera looks at the man, but didn't respond, rather, he headed toward the field to take some batting practice. The Tigers star third baseman turned back, however, when a different fan, says he's from Maracay, Venezuela – Cabrera's hometown.

The Spanish-speaking man was right next to the man whose sign Cabrera took. Now further emboldened, the heckler decided to really put Cabrera on the spot.

"I mean, you've got to be mad about Ryan Raburn ever playing in this pennant race, Miguel," he said. "C'mon, man. You've got to be happy that Leyland's contract's up, at least, right? You've got to be happy he's gone, right, Miguel?"

Yet again, no response, though obviously, spirojus (assuming that's the person in the video) didn't get the memo that the Tigers skipper stated long ago that he wanted to review his potential return on a yearly basis.

After signing an autograph for a woman on the other side of the heckler, she told Cabrera, "Thank you. You are an awesome, awesome man!"

With his moment in the spotlight fading, the man behind the camera took one more shot.

"He's a man that steals signs, I know that," the heckler said, to which Cabrera couldn't resist a big, friendly laugh, looking directly at the guy, before walking away and telling the person to whom he gave the sign to return it to the fan.

And that's how players get annoyed with fans.

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