Tommy Pham Suspended Three Games for Slap Over Fantasy Football Move
Tommy Pham considers himself to be a Vegas mellow roller, and the Cincinnati Reds outfielder takes his phantasy football game seriously. So practically so that MLB suspended him three games on Saturday after he slapped San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson o'er a disputed dealings inward their league.
The hanging was retroactive to Friday, which is when the incident occurred, because the slogger turned slap hitter sat come out that night’s game. The conference also fined Pham, though it did non expose the amount.
The ruckus during the pregame warmups led to players from both sides running to the outfield. However, goose egg else happened. Pederson told reporters after Friday’s biz the two were piece of an ESPN fantasy league. However, they don’t really talking to to each one other.
The disagreement stemmed from a move Pederson said he made to position a participant on injured taciturnity after he had been ruled out for that week. After some accused him of stashing a player, Pederson block out captured the league’s rules and posted them inwards a group text message with other squad owners.
That was to a greater extent than a year ago. And patch most would simply let the incident go after such time, Tommy Pham isn’t to the highest degree people.
“There was no real argument,” Pederson said. “He tolerant of came upwards and said, ‘You recall from lastly year?’ And I was like, ‘Fantasy football?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah.’”
And and so it was on ilk Donkey Kong. At least from Pham’s perspective.
Pederson said he simply walked away.
“I didn’t receive emotional and don’t conceive violence is the answer, I hazard you could say,” he added.
‘Too Much Money on the Line’
Pham didn’t create any comments on Friday, but the Cincinnati Reds participant to a greater extent than made upward for it on Saturday.
In comments to C. Trent Rosecrans, Reds flap writer for The Athletic, and Evan Webeck, Giants scramble author for the Bay Area News Group, Pham admitted to slapping Pederson. He said it was nigh the phantasy football conference as fountainhead as some posts Pederson made about Pham’s old team, the San Diego Padres.
We’ve got too much money on the line,” Pham said, according to the Bay Area News Group. “I looking at it like, there’s a code. If you’re (messing) with my money, you’re sledding to say some disrespectful (stuff), there’s a cipher to this. … This was strictly virtually winning some money, gambling. … There’s a lot of money on the line. I’m a freehanded dog in Vegas. I’m a luxuriously rolling wave at many casinos. … If you lost, you had to pay double, so i looked at it ilk he was (messing) with my money, on with the disrespect.”
After Saturday’s game, Pederson said he sent a GIF image to the phantasy football game schmoose grouping that was supposed to live a lighthearted turn over at the Padres to which Pham took umbrage. He added that Pham eventually dropped out of the fantasise league.
Fantasy Football Not Against MLB Rules
While MLB has a longstanding find against betting on baseball games, that does not stretch to betting de jure or playing fantasy games on other sports.
Pham will close his respite on Sunday, when the three-game series with the Giants ends.