Shia LaBeouf Shares Decades-Long Grudge Against MLB Legend

Shia LaBeouf has been making the news lately for all the wrong reasons, and that doesn't count last month's arrest when he attended Mardi Gras in New Orleans, either.

During the embattled 39-year-old actor's head-scratching interview with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan, the Transformers star also shared that he holds a lifelong grudge against Los Angeles Dodgers legend Mike Piazza.

No Love Lost

During the interview, LaBeouf shared that as a kid growing up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park -- just a stone's throw away from Dodger Stadium -- he'd attend numerous Dodger games with the Big Brothers program.

After the game, LaBeouf said he was among the throng of kids who waited in the parking lot, hoping to catch players heading to their cars for an autograph.

It's a tradition that's largely nonexistent these days, what with upgrades to Dodger Stadium that all but bar people from waiting on players to exit the venue. Not to mention the heightened security around high-profile players like Shohei Ohtani.

But security was not so intense back in LaBeouf's day. He told Callahan that getting autographs came easily when he ran into Dodger legends Hideo Nomo and Brett Butler.

But Piazza? Not so much.

"We used to go to Dodger games. Big Brothers program used to give you these tickets ... all of these dudes would be sitting in the parking lot," he said. "Brett Butler always signed. Hideo Nomo always signed. Mike Piazza ... Mike Piazza, you're a b**ch, bro."

LeBeouf prefaced this by sharing that he always obliges when fans request pictures, except when he's eating, with his kids, or, in his words, "chasing a**."

To this day, the actor can't fathom why Piazza never stopped and signed an autograph.

90 Rejections

LaBeouf said every day he waited on players to get autographs, Piazza never once stopped. The actor estimates that he got rejected 90 times.

He went on to infer that, after so many rejections, he made it his mission to get everyone else's autographs, except for Piazza, who would eventually be traded to the then-Florida Marlins in 1998. It's considered the most unpopular trade in franchise history, given that Piazza was in his prime. He was also a home-grown talent, practically Tommy Lasorda's godson, and considered a future Hall of Famer.

Piazza ultimately entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016 as a New York Mets star. And just like LaBeouf, Piazza also holds a grudge against the Dodgers: To this day, Piazza continues to avoid setting foot at Dodger Stadium.