Jose Guillen wanted Paul Quantrill to attempt the anatomically impossible. Quantrill just wanted Guillen to shut his pie hole.

A day after the two men had an eighth-inning staredown, Guillen and Quantrill ratcheted up the rhetoric before yesterday’s 7-4 victory by the Yankees over Anaheim. It was a classic way to inflame what has become a budding bicoastal rivalry.

“Trust me, I’m not afraid of anyone,” said Guillen, who hit a three-run homer off Jon Lieber in the fourth yesterday. “You tell him that.

“I don’t give a [bleep] if he has 20 years in the [bleeping] big leagues. He can shove it up his [bleep].”

Quantrill dismissively said, “I don’t need a war of words with this guy. What’s his first name?

“The fact is, if he wants to stare and rant because someone pitches him in, he needs to grow up and learn the game . . . I guess I didn’t get the memo that you are not allowed to pitch Guillen in.”

Wednesday, friction started between the two teams on a variety of fronts. Jorge Posada suffered a fractured nose on a thrown ball in the second. Some of the Yankees felt the play was reckless if not dirty.

In the fourth, Alex Rodriguez took five steps before throwing out slow-footed catcher Bengie Molina on a groundout. Molina took exception because Derek Jeter and A-Rod were chuckling as they left the field, but they weren’t laughing at Molina and the issue was resolved.

Other issues weren’t. In the eighth, Quantrill came high and tight to Guillen, who had homered earlier in that game. Guillen stared at Quantrill, who told him to either do something about it or shut up. Guillen said Quantrill already was barking at him after he dusted himself off.

“If he’s a man, we take [care of] business on this side,” Guillen said. “I’ll take care of business anytime he wants to or whenever he wants to.”

Countered Quantrill, “If he wants to come to the mound . . . But to stand there is like the guys in hockey who start yelling after they are put in the penalty box. Then they are real tough guys.”

After yesterday’s loss, Guillen said, “I have better things to worry about than Quantrill . . . It’s over.”

Don’t bet on it. The teams play two more series, in Anaheim next Tuesday-Thursday, and back in The Bronx from Aug. 20-22. Manager Mike Scioscia downplayed the budding feud, but David Eckstein saw the makings of a decent rivalry.

“It’s hard to actually have a very acute rivalry, especially with the way the Yankees and Red Sox have been such a big back-and-forth,” Eckstein said. “When we go out and play, I think the games are very intense and very high-focused.

“No one wants to lose . . . You can definitely tell there’s something there when you step on the field with them. It’s a lot of fun to play with them.”