So Tommy Pham wasn’t just being an idiot at the game last night, he carried it over to Twitter.
I’m sure we’ve all met people like this, ones who think they should be policing everyone who doesn’t stand up to some moral code that they have made up. Most figure out at some point that they ought to grow out of this stuff. Making everyone hate you is not the best way to go, but some never figure it out.
Just a suggestion to ball players: do not argue with reporters on Twitter. They used to say ‘Don’t
pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.‘
Heineman said more:
“He didn’t say a word to me. I didn’t say a word to him. He just looked like he wanted to have a fight . . . he bat flipped and looked straight at me. I just put up my arms and he walked towards me. I don’t really know . . . It was weird, man,” Heineman said. “It was weird. It was unprovoked and super weird . . . you’re probably just as confused as I am.”
And then he accused Addison Barger of using steroids. If I was Addison, I’d be considering suing. Yes perhaps Addison should have stayed out of it.
It will be interesting tonight. I’m figuring that the Pirates sit Pham because who wants to start a beanball war. But it will be interesting if they don’t. Max Scherzer might take matters into his own hands (I hope not, because I’m sure it would be an instant ejection).
Here is a left fielder hitting .260/.333/.368, which is right about the line for getting a player released. If the Pirates had a young outfield who was ready to get some MLB time, he’d be gone.
As you might remember he slapped a teammate because of something with their fantasy football league
“I slapped Joc,” Pham told reporters Saturday. “He said some s— I don’t condone. I had to address it.
“… It was regarding my former team [Padres]. I didn’t like that and I didn’t like the sketchy s— going on in the fantasy. We had too much money on the line, so I look at it like there’s a code. You’re f—ing with my money, then you’re going to say some disrespectful s—; there’s a code to this.”
Pederson acknowledged to reporters Saturday that “there was a lot of money involved” and said Pham was telling the truth.
A candid Pederson even showed reporters the GIF he sent teasing Padres players who were in the group chat about their struggles on the field down the stretch last season. Pederson was with the Atlanta Braves at the time, and Pham was playing for San Diego.
“In the group chat there was also some — there was more than one Padre, there was four or five that, I’m kind of close with a couple of them,” Pederson said. “It was supposed to be a friendly thing, just making fun of they were playing bad, and just talking back and forth. And yeah, [Pham] did not like that and he responded, ‘Joc, I don’t know you well enough to make any jokes like this.”’
He has a long history of this sort of thing, which makes me wonder why teams sign him.
Mark Ripperger wasn’t particularly good last night:
