Tommy Pham adds blame for Pederson slap to commissioner Mike Trout
The wild fantasy football feud that has taken over Major League Baseball doesn’t cease with simply Tommy Pham and Joc Pederson.
It’s additionally removed from over, even after Pham served his three-game suspension.
The incident now apparently contains Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout, in any other case often called the “worst commissioner in fantasy sports activities.”
If Trout would have merely run the league, Pham mentioned jokingly, there wouldn’t have been a problem within the first place.
“Trout did a horrible job, man,” Pham mentioned Tuesday, . “Trout’s the worst commissioner in fantasy sports activities. As a result of he allowed plenty of this s**t go on and he might’ve solved all of it … No one needed to be commissioner. I didn’t wish to be the f***ing commissioner. I’ve obtained different s**t to do. He didn’t wish to do it, we put it on him.
“It was sort of our fault too, as a result of we made him commissioner.”
Tommy Pham returns after 3-game suspension
Pham returned from his three-game suspension on Tuesday evening, although he didn’t play within the Cincinnati Reds’ sequence opener in opposition to the Boston Pink Sox resulting from calf tightness.
The incident began final week, when Pham went and slapped Pederson earlier than their sport on Friday over a fantasy soccer dispute.
Apparently, Pham was mad about injured reserve guidelines of their league and had accused Pederson of dishonest in a bunch chat. Pederson, in accordance with Pham, additionally mentioned “some disrespectful s**t” in that group chat about Pham.
The incident possible befell in the course of the 2020-21 NFL season, too, and Pederson mentioned Pham truly left the league early and hadn’t talked to him once more till Friday’s altercation.
Why he held onto a grudge for that lengthy isn’t actually clear to anybody, together with Pederson — who had informed Pham that “it was meant to be all enjoyable and video games. No arduous emotions.”
Even on Friday when Pham slapped Pederson, he mentioned there wasn’t a lot to it.
“There was no actual argument,” Pederson mentioned. “He kinda got here up and mentioned, ‘You keep in mind from final 12 months?’ I mentioned, ‘Fantasy Soccer?’ He mentioned, ‘Yeah” and … yeah.”
Pham’s account on Tuesday was, effectively, related.
“I mentioned, ‘I didn’t neglect about that s**t,’” Pham mentioned, . “And I walked as much as him and slapped him.”
Trout didn’t remark about his function within the feud to The Athletic.
“That’s one thing you actually simply put behind you,” Pham mentioned, . “Everybody in that group chat, everyone is aware of. I’ve had a few of these guys attain out to me. They already know what’s up.”
