#pederson

Texas Rangers outfielder Joc Pederson believes”built-up aggression and anger” helped his facet overcome a ninth-innings deficit and win their sequence opener in opposition to the New York Yankees at Globe Life Subject. Pederson, who has struggled for type this season and returned on July 27 after two months out with a right-hand fracture, flung his bat after tying the sport with a house run…

LA VUELTA 2022 STAGE 16

Defending champion of La Vuelta Primoz Roglic is now up against it this year. A minute 34 seconds behind leader in the GC Remco Evenepoel, it would take a monumental effort to retain it this time around as La Vuelta winds down. Stage 16 is one of his last chance saloon stages for the Slovenian. The Stage which comes after a rest day was a 189km course from Barrameda to Tomares was flat with no…

Pederson, Giants walk past skidding Phillies 5-4

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Joc Pederson drove in three runs, drawing a bases-loaded walk that broke a sixth-inning tie and sending the San Francisco Giants over the Philadelphia Phillies 5-4 Saturday. The Giants won their second in a row following a seven-game losing streak. The wild card-contending Phillies have lost five of six. “I don’t think they’re tight. We’re just going through a stretch right…

The Reds & Giants were warming up on the field before the game yesterday (May 27). Tommy Pham (Reds outfielder) walked up to Joc Pederson (Giants outfielder) and said something like, "You remember from last year?" Pederson said, "Fantasy football?" Pham said yes and then slapped him. Open-handed slap, left side of face.

Here's where it gets fun. This is Joc Pederson talking about what led to the slap.

And Pham was very offended.

And this is the follow-up from Pederson.

(I have no idea how embed Twitter videos. You should follow the links to the videos. This is the best thing to happen all month, and it's absolutely a treat after the terrible week everyone's had.)

Here's the best part. This wasn't offseason fantasy football for the NFL draft or anything. This was during the football season. Someone tracked down when the injuries happened that Pederson was talking about and it was November. They had no contact from November until now, when Pham walked up to Pederson before the game and slapped him. Six. Months. I've severed multi-decade toxic friendships and the thing I did when I saw those people (We lived in the same town.) was ignore them. Pham held onto a fantasy football grudge (I cannot stress enough how ridiculous the original grudge is.) and slapped Pederson for a stupid gif 6 months later.

Pham is suspended 3 games, ostensibly for slapping another player, although I really think someone at MLB's disciplinary office had to scramble when asked, "What's the punishment for a player slapping another player after an argument in a fantasy football league resulted in an insulting gif via text?"