Chicago ? Sammy Sosa denied suggestions by St. Louis pitching coach Dave Duncan that Cubs coaches signaled him pitch locations during a game against the Cardinals.

“I don’t really need to do that. I’m not the type of player to do those kinds of things,” an agitated Sosa said Thursday before the start of a four-game series with the Milwaukee Brewers.

Sosa hit his major league-leading 14th homer in the first inning Wednesday off Matt Morris for Chicago’s only two runs in a 3-2 loss.

“Somebody on their team let him know locations. We let them know we knew what they were doing and that it would be in their best interests to stop doing it,” Duncan told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The teams begin a three-game series Monday in St. Louis with Morris pitching again.

Informed of Duncan’s theory, Morris was more to the point.

“It’s bush-league baseball. The guy’s an All-Star and they’re tipping off location. Come on,” Morris told the Post-Dispatch.

“Somebody might get a fastball in the ear on Monday if that’s the way they want to do it,” he said.

Cubs manager Don Baylor called Duncan’s statements “paranoia.”