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Joe Girardi doesn't regret confronting heckler

Yankees manager Joe Girardi walks off the field

Photo credit: AP

CLEVELAND — Joe Girardi hasn’t seen the video of Wednesday’s confrontation with a heckler and doesn’t plan to see it. But he has zero regrets.

“My wife and kids were there, other kids were there,” he said Friday. “I don’t think our families should be subject to that. I’m going to protect my family.”

During his postgame meeting with reporters in Chicago — in a hallway outside the clubhouse...

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