{"id":1500339,"date":"2022-06-01T18:14:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500339"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:15:07","slug":"one-of-mlbs-biggest-stars-dragged-into-pham-pederson-fantasy-football-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-of-mlbs-biggest-stars-dragged-into-pham-pederson-fantasy-football-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of MLB\u2019s Biggest Stars Dragged Into Pham-Pederson Fantasy Football Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fone-of-mlbs-biggest-stars-dragged-into-pham-pederson-fantasy-football-fight%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500339&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It was bad enough when two journeyman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/baseball\">Major League<\/a>\u00a0ballplayers got into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/one-major-league-baseball-player-slaps-another-in-fight-over-fantasy-football\">fight over fantasy football<\/a>, but now the fray has dragged in one of the game\u2019s biggest fish: Angels outfielder Mike Trout.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham, who just served a three-game suspension for slapping San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson Friday over a disputed move in fantasy football last fall, said perennial MVP contender Trout bears some of the blame, too. Trout, after all, was the commissioner who let Pederson get away with the alleged shenanigans, Pham claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrout\u2019s the worst commissioner in fantasy sports,\u201d Pham told the <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3343107\/2022\/05\/31\/reds-tommy-pham-mike-trout-slap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cBecause he allowed a lot of s*** to go on and he could\u2019ve solved it all. Nobody wanted to be commissioner, I didn\u2019t want to be the f***ing commissioner. I\u2019ve got other s*** to do. He didn\u2019t want to do it; we put it on him. It was kind of our fault too, because we made him commissioner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mike Trout on Tommy Pham&#8217;s fantasy football dig: &#8216;Every commissioner I know always gets booed&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xDXbkiFtXC\">https:\/\/t.co\/xDXbkiFtXC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eZOT8u6EKP\">pic.twitter.com\/eZOT8u6EKP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1532105866673012736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trout shrugged off Pham\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery commissioner I know always gets booed,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Pham was apparently still smarting over the dispute that landed him in hot water with the commissioner\u2019s office. He admitted slapping Pederson before the game and seemed unrepentant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI slapped Joc,\u201d Pham said later. \u201cHe said some s*** I don\u2019t condone. I had to address it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pederson was caught off-guard by the pre-game attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a surprise,\u201d Pederson said. \u201cThere was no real argument. He kind of came up and said, like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if you remember from last year,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018Fantasy football?\u2019 He was like, \u2018Yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Pederson said he was accused of cheating in the fantasy football league for putting San Francisco 49ers running back Jeff Wilson on injured reserve and replacing him with a free agent. Pederson insisted the move was legal because the player he put on IR had been ruled out for that week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sent a screenshot of the rules, how it says that if a player\u2019s ruled out, you\u2019re allowed to put him on the IR and that\u2019s all I was doing,\u201d Pederson said. \u201cHe literally did the same thing. That was basically all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pederson speculated that Pham may have had Wilson in another league and gotten mixed up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe that was a confusion,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the ESPN league we were in, he was listed as out. It feels very similar to what I did. That was basically all of it. There\u2019s not much more to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pham said\u00a0Trout, a three-time MVP, could have prevented the disagreement from boiling over if only he had\u00a0enforced the league\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrout did a terrible job, man,\u201d Pham said.<\/p>\n<p>Pham is getting a reputation as a hothead. In April, he challenged San Diego\u2019s hulking first baseman Luke Voit to a fight after Voit slid hard into Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Luke wants to settle it, I get down really well,\u201d Pham said. \u201cAnything. Muay Thai, whatever. Like I said, I\u2019ve got an owner here who will let me use his facility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bad enough when two journeyman Major League\u00a0ballplayers got into a fight over fantasy football, but now the fray has dragged in one of the game\u2019s biggest fish: Angels outfielder Mike Trout. Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham, who just served a three-game suspension for slapping San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson Friday over a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1500367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}