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Fred Toucher: People Say Worse Things to Me Every Day Than What Jack Edwards Said About Pat Maroon

In late November, NESN’s Jack Edwards insinuated that Tampa Bay Lightning forward Pat Maroon was fat after making a quip about his weight and how the NHL vet “had a few more pizzas” since weighing in at training camp. Edwards apologized to Maroon Thursday, it reportedly didn’t go well, and Fred Toucher and Rich Shertenlieb of 98.5 The Sports Hub thought it was ridiculous.

“It makes Jack Edwards come across like a good guy and makes Pat Maroon look like an absolute baby,” Shertenlieb said of the Boston Globe’s characterization of the events. “Jack got his shot in, Pat Maroon got his shot in, and you meet up in the locker room.”

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“People say worse stuff to me than that every day,” Fred Toucher argued. “Every day. By people in my life, by people on social media. I’m insulted worse than that every day. If I had a dollar for every time someone called me a ‘fatso’…There was an article — it was a great article — about Rich and I years ago and it describes us as — it essentially calls me fat. It was like ‘The husky Fred Toucher’ or whatever the hell it is. I didn’t care. Who cares that you’re fat?”

Shertenlieb argued that Edwards’ explanation — that he was showing respect for Maroon as being “immovable” in front of the net — was plausible, and showed contrition by apologizing.

“Jack Edwards showed that it was a mistake, he wasn’t trying to upset the guy, and then for 10 minutes let the guy tear into him. You’re a baby, an absolute baby for doing that,” Shertenlieb said of Maroon.

Toucher argued if he apologized to someone after calling them fat and they wouldn’t accept the apology, he’d walk away before a 10-minute conversation took place.

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