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MLB fans mocked White Sox announcer John Schriffen for getting oddly fired up about Tommy Pham’s tantrum

Why would the White Sox announcer defend this?!

It’s been a rough weekend for the Chicago White Sox, to say the least.

The team now sits at 15-45 with the MLB’s worst record. As such, the White Sox have inspired tired rants about analytics and are seeing players like Tommy Pham fume after taking an awful base-running path to home plate.

The person connected to the White Sox who might have had the worst weekend, though, is announcer John Schriffen.

In his first year as the play-by-play person, Schriffen has had the unenviable task of making the worst team in baseball seem interesting. At times, he has seemingly leaned on the extreme homer call — which is fine for local broadcasts — in an attempt to appeal to what likely few White Sox fans are actually watching every game.

The issue is that this penchant for homer-ism leads Schriffen to do things like weirdly defend Pham as he throws a tantrum over getting thrown out at home plate after his atrocious base-running. This sort of announcing approach will resonate with absolutely no one:

Again, it is OK to be a homer as a local broadcaster.

But to do that, fans actually have to like and be invested in their team. One does not get that sense about the current White Sox. More importantly, Schriffen taking Pham’s side on a needless tantrum over a clear error he made is just silly on its face. At a certain point, basic logic will kick in, and people will remember they’re watching baseball, not a fighting sport.

Likely, no one watching that moment live (or on social media afterward) thought, “Yeah, get ’em, Tommy!” It was not the time or the place to needlessly ramp up the emotions as Schriffen did. But I suppose that’s what inevitably happens when the team you’re announcing for is 30 games under .500 in early June.

MLB fans mocked John Schriffen for getting weirdly fired up about Tommy Pham’s tantrum

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Tommy Pham was fuming at the Brewers after he was thrown out at home on an atrocious path to the plate

Pham had a dirty slide but was the angry one here.

The White Sox went into Sunday’s game against the Brewers riding a 10-game losing streak, so the desperation to end that streak was understandable. But in true White Sox fashion, Tommy Pham managed to add to the embarrassment.

With the White Sox trailing by one run in the eighth inning, Pham wanted to test Christian Yelich’s arm on a fly out to left field. There was nothing wrong with the decision to send Pham there — even with Pham’s below-average speed. Yelich’s arm strength ranks in the 42nd percentile amongst MLB outfielders, so why not force him to make a play?

Yet, you won’t see any base runner take a worse path than Pham did on a tag from third.

Pham was running on the infield grass and took a direct path towards Brewers catcher William Contreras who tagged him out at home. Pham — the same guy who slapped Joc Pederson over fantasy football — took exception with how Contreras reacted to the play (apparently he can’t celebrate?). It got to the point where White Sox players and coaches had to intervene to calm Pham down.

But really, Contreras was the one who should have been upset with Pham, if anything. Contreras gave Pham a window to slide into home, but the White Sox outfielder opted to go straight at the catcher. Good teams don’t make mistakes like this:

Cooler heads would eventually prevail, and the Brewers went on to hand the White Sox their 11th straight loss.

Pham spoke about what happened after the game, and let’s just say he wasn’t thrilled. (Warning: Strong language)

 

Tommy Pham took notice to Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux taunting him from the dugout

The Rangers might regret that …

We saw in the NLDS just how impactful bulletin-board material can be for players. The Braves’ Orlando Arcia was heard shouting “atta boy, Harper” in the clubhouse after the Braves’ Game 2 win, and those reports had Bryce Harper staring down Arcia during a two-homer Game 3 (and eventual series win).

Fast forward to the World Series, and Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux apparently didn’t pay attention to the whole Arcia saga. Because, well, he did the same thing and took it to another level.

While the Diamondbacks’ Tommy Pham had an incredible 4-for-4 performance in Arizona’s 9-1 Game 2 win, Pham did have a big mistake on the base path. He was picked off at second to end an inning. And when cameras panned to Maddux, we saw this:

Lip readers were quick to notice that Maddux appeared to say, “Atta boy, you dumb (expletive)!”

Obviously, Maddux was just fired up about a big play but the disrespectful shot at Pham certainly got back to the D-backs outfielder as he responded to a video of it.

Yeah, he’s taking notes. And with the series tied at 1-1 and heading to Phoenix, fans will certainly look back at Maddux’s comments if the D-backs win the World Series.

Tommy Pham is like the rest of us, rushing to check his fantasy lineup after leaving his day job … with the Red Sox

“Gotta see if Michael Thomas went off.”

Tommy Pham takes his fantasy football serious.

We found that out in May when the then-Cincinnati Reds outfielder slapped San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson over a dispute in their fantasy league. Everyone weighed in on the slap, from 49ers running back Jeff Wilson Jr. to Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp. Mike Trout even caught strays for being “the worst commissioner in fantasy sports.”

So, it should come as no surprise that after Pham scored the only run in the Boston Red Sox win over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, all he wanted to do was rush to see how his fantasy players were performing in the opening week of the NFL season. And honestly, we get it.

“Gotta see if Michael Thomas went off,” Pham said to close his post-game interview. “Got a lot of depth. Gotta see if my picks clicked.”

Pham will be happy to know Thomas did go off, hauling in two touchdown catches in the Saints’ comeback win over the Falcons. His Reds and Red Sox have been bad this year, but things might be looking up for Pham’s fantasy team.

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Cooper Kupp da su opinión acerca de la ridícula pelea entre Joc Pederson- Tommy Pham por el fantasy football

La historia deportiva más ridícula/increíble del año ha sido el pleito entre dos jugadores de la MLB por el fantasy football – Joc Pederson y Tommy Pham – y por la cual Pham fue suspendido por tres juegos por cachetear a Pederson. De verdad es algo …

La historia deportiva más ridícula/increíble del año ha sido el pleito entre dos jugadores de la MLB por el fantasy football– Joc Pederson y Tommy Pham – y por la cual Pham fue suspendido por tres juegos por cachetear a Pederson.

De verdad es algo que pasó, lo cual está increíble.

Pham incluso lo escaló esta semana cuando dijo que Mike Trout era el “peor comisionado de fantasy football” por permitir lo que pasó en su liga.

¿En qué mundo vivimos?

El viernes, el autor tuvo la oportunidad de hablar con el WR estrella de los Rams, Cooper Kupp, quien también es en dios del fantasy football, para el show semanal de USA Today Sports Sports Seriously y le tuvo que preguntar su opinión acerca de esta ridículamente/increíble historia.

Aquí está la conversación:

Traducción.- Cooper Kupp opina sobre el pleito por fantasy football. “Realmente no me puedo relacionar con eso pero estoy seguro hay una vergonzosa cantidad de personas que si se pueden relacionar, las personas se apasionan con su equipo de fantasy football.”

Bien dicho por el MVP reinante del Super Bowl

Y tranquilícense jugadores de fantasy football.  Especialmente si son jugadores de la MLB. ¡¡¡Sólo es fantasy football!!!

 

 

Traducido por META

Cooper Kupp weighs in on the ridiculous Joc Pederson-Tommy Pham fantasy football beef

“I’m sure there’s actually an embarrassingly large number of people that actually do relate to that.”

The most ridiculous/awesome sports story of the year has been the fantasy football beef between two MLB players – Joc Pederson and Tommy Pham – that led to Pham being suspended three games for slapping Pederson.

That’s seriously a thing that happened, which is amazing.

Pham even took it to another level this week when he said that Mike Trout was “the worst commissioner in fantasy sports” for allowing what happened in their league to happen.

I mean, what a world we are living in!

On Friday I had the chance to talk with Rams star WR Cooper Kupp, who is also a fantasy football God, for USA Today Sports’ weekly show Sports Seriously and I had to ask him what he thought of this whole ridiculous/awesome story.

Here’s that conversation:

That’s well said by the reigning Super Bowl MVP..

And calm down, fantasy football players. Especially if you’re a MLB player. It’s just fantasy football!

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Jeff Wilson Jr. shouts out Joc Pederson for ‘taking one for the team’

Jeff Wilson Jr. shouts out Joc Pederson for ‘taking one for the team.’ #49ers

49ers running back Jeff Wilson Jr. found himself at the center of perhaps the wildest Major League Baseball story of the year. A fantasy football dispute between Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham and San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson last September led to Pham slapping Pederson on the field before their game Friday.

Pederson told reporters the two players got into an argument over text message when Pham accused Pederson of cheating. Wilson, who was injured at the time, was at the center of the controversy.

“I was just excited to be in the conversation,” Wilson told reporters after Wednesday’s practice. “And shoutout to Joc for having me on the team, and taking one for the team.”

There’s a little confusion over the exact machinations of the fantasy tussle, but Pederson’s post-game quotes Friday made it appear as though Wilson was on Pham’s team.

“And it just so happened he had a player, (49ers RB) Jeff Wilson who was ‘out,’ and he had him on the IR,” Pederson said.

Wilson missed the first nine weeks last year with a torn meniscus he suffered during the offseason program. He was a popular Injured Reserve stash in fantasy since any member of the 49ers backfield was liable to become fantasy relevant last year as injuries piled up.

Whether Wilson will have a role this year remains to be seen after the 49ers continued to invest in the running back position in this year’s draft. Perhaps Pederson will pick him up anyway in solidarity for the strange bond the two Bay Area athletes now share.

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Jeff Wilson Jr. had a hilarious response to the Joc Pederson-Tommy Pham fantasy football dispute

Amazing.

One of the wilder sports stories of the year came full circle on Wednesday when San Francisco 49ers running back Jeff Wilson Jr. met with the media, and it was absolutely worth it.

In case you missed it the past week, Reds outfielder Tommy Pham was suspended for three games after he slapped the Giants Joc Pederson before the series opener in Cincinnati. It turned out that the entire altercation stemmed from a fantasy football argument about IR etiquette (and some GIFs about the Padres that Pederson sent into a group chat).

The NFL player that was name dropped in the whole ordeal was Wilson, and he couldn’t hold back the smile when he was finally asked about it. His reaction was great.

Speaking to reporters, Wilson said:

“That was crazy, man. Actually Robbie (Gould) was the first person that told me about it. And man, I was just like that was crazy. I guess I was just honored to be in the conversation. Shout out to Joc for having me on the team and taking one for the team.”

So good.

It did sound like Pham was the one who had Wilson, and Joc was calling him out for similar IR maneuvering with Wilson.

Either way, one of the two had Wilson on the team. It was pretty outrageous that Pham resorted to slapping Pederson over a player who had 79 carries and two touchdowns in 2021, which probably made the whole feud so puzzling to begin with.

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Tommy Pham calls Mike Trout ‘the worst commissioner in fantasy sports’ after Joc Pederson slap controversy

This story continues to be the weirdest.

The most public and weird fantasy football controversy in sports has gotten even weirder.

A reminder: San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson and his Cincinnati Reds counterpart Tommy Pham had a confrontation last Friday that led to Pham slapping Pederson. It turned out it was over some controversy in their fantasy football league — not a typo, this actually happened — and it’s led to Pham getting suspended and Pederson bring the receipts and a GIF that Pederson shared that mocked the San Diego Padres.

And now, Mike Trout is involved.

It turns out the Los Angeles Angels superstar is the league commissioner, and Pham had this to say with a laugh via the Cincinnati Enquirer:

“Trout did a terrible job, man,” Pham said, laughing. “Trout is the worst commissioner in fantasy sports because he allowed a lot of (stuff) to go on, and he could’ve solved it all. I don’t want to be the (bleeping) commissioner; I’ve got other (stuff) to do. (Trout) didn’t want to do it. We put it on him, so it’s kind of our fault too because we made him commissioner.”

Oh man, now we have to hear about this from Trout! Also, Pham said he had receipts, but it feels like he’s not about to release any of that:

“Joc gave out half the story too, man,” Pham said. “I don’t like that.” …

“He’s sent a few,” Pham said. “It’s more than one and I’ve got screenshots to prove it. He sent more than a few jokes aimed at me or the Padres. That was only one. There was about four or five. And we had rules to the IR. I know the ESPN app rules. We had our own individual rules.”

This just keeps getting better and better.

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Baseball fans uncovered the GIF that sparked Tommy Pham’s slap of Joc Pederson

Amazing.

This weekend series between the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants has given the baseball world one of the weirder altercations we’ve ever seen on an MLB field. The story continues to get stranger by the day.

On Friday, benches cleared before the game when the Reds’ Tommy Pham slapped the Giants’ Joc Pederson in the face after a brief discussion in the outfield. Pederson didn’t retaliate, and Pham was removed from the lineup before getting hit with a three-game suspension.

It turned out that the entire confrontation stemmed from a fantasy football dispute about bench-IR etiquette. And on top of that, Pham really took exception to a GIF that Pederson sent mocking the Padres’ collapse back in September. Pham was so upset about the GIF that he slapped Pederson over it eight months later.

That GIF, according to Pederson, was a weightlifting fail that included a Padres logo along with the Giants and Dodgers. He showed parts of the group chat from his phone to reporters on Saturday. And, of course, MLB fans were able to locate that GIF. It was glorious.

It’s hard to imagine how Pham could have been so upset over that GIF when he doesn’t even play for the Padres anymore. Plus, Pederson sent it as a member of the Braves. Pederson was basically being an average sports fan messing with his friends in a group chat. But a combination of Pham being a terrible sport (and fantasy football player) had him steaming over that GIF for months. Just wild.

Baseball fans did appreciate that they finally got a close-up look at the infamous GIF.