After seeing his father's tweets directed at his former teammate, Twins 1B Tyler Austin feels "pretty embarrassed."

Chris Austin, Tyler's dad, took some shots at Yankees 1B Greg Bird over the weekend. He is clearly still upset the Yankees decided to trade him to Minnesota before the trade deadline on July 30.

man tyler austin's dad is salty af pic.twitter.com/ECrxrB6QIc
- samantha (@newportliving) August 20, 2018

Austin addressed the situation on Wednesday, saying that he yelled at his father to take the tweets down.

"Pretty embarrassed about what my dad put on there," Austin told The Star Tribune. "I didn't know about it until somebody sent me a picture of it. I told him immediately to take it down. It's embarrassing and should never happen."

Austin even said he will be reaching out to Bird to apologize himself for his father's actions.

"I will be reaching out to him, because something like that should never happen," he said.

Austin has been enjoying success with the Twins since he was called up earlier this month. He is hitting .370 with three homers over nine games with his new squad.

On the other hand, Bird continues to struggle with a .206 average with 11 homers over the season thus far. He was 0-for-10 in the Yankees' latest series against the Marlins.

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