Big Papi: I wanted to kill Pierzynski when we played together

David Ortiz is keeping busy in his retirement, doing the interview circuit for his new book, "Papi: My Story," and sharing some great anecdotes in the process.

When Highly Questionable asked Ortiz about any teammates that he didn't get along with, the Boston Red Sox legend divulged that he did not like playing with A.J. Pierzysnki.

"I want to kill A.J. Pierzynski when we played together," Big Papi said of his former teammate.

Of course, it didn't stay that way. "I was going through some tough time at some point and he was the one that was there for me," Ortiz said. "It was weird the way that happens."

Pierzynski was no stranger to controversy during his career. The catcher was voted the most-hated player in all of baseball in 2012 by a Men's Journal survey of 100 major leaguers - finishing 24 percentage points higher than second-place Alex Rodriguez.

"He's a good guy, man, he's a good guy," Ortiz added. "He had just this way to do things that you would think that he's something else, something different, but at the end of the day he was a good guy."

Pierzynski was a teammate of Ortiz's through the 1998-2002 seasons with the Minnesota Twins as well as the beginning of the 2014 campaign with the Red Sox.