Shaquille O’Neal and Chris Bosh are developing a rather unlikely, albeit amusing, rivalry these days. You see, Shaq is so large that he can do what he wants in the paint. Sometimes, this involves pushing off. Other times it involves sitting there for more than three seconds.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care: he’s Shaq. He defines the phrase Veteran NBA Big Man and therefore can do whatever he wants. But Bosh doesn’t feel the same way, and he called Shaq out. Shaq’s response? Fairly typical.

“I heard what Chris Bosh said, and that’s strong words coming from the RuPaul of big men,” O’Neal said. “I’m going to do the same thing (in their next meeting) I did before - make him quit. Make ‘em quit and complain. It’s what I do.”

Oh, Diesel. Don’t fool yourself. NONE of us can quit you. At least as long as you’re acting like the Shaq of old, throwing up 40 points and then tweeting about it. Or just misspelling “manana.” Both work quite well.

Which reminds me, why don’t they just throw down on Twitter? Sure, it’s fun to see quotes in the print media, but nothing is as “cool” or “hip” as a TweetWar. Am I right? Maybe not. But I can go ahead and tell you that I’m vastly more intrigued by the Carles v. Xzibit war that’s raging via social media than I am by Bosh and Shaq, if only because they can’t immediately reply to each other in 140-character phrases.

So, gentlemen, if you don’t mind, let’s go ahead and rev up this rivalry a little bit and take it to the Internetz.