Anna Benson, the ever quotable, if not photogenic wife of Mets pitcher Kris Benson, insists she’s been misquoted by the Daily News’ Adam Rubin, writes Flilip Bondy.
Adam Rubin had called up the couple in Atlanta to find out whether Kris Benson was shaken by Minaya’s trade talks with Kansas City, Baltimore and Texas. Rubin also told Anna Benson what he’d heard from a reliable source, that Met ownership wasn’t pleased with her plans to pose for Playboy.
Rubin showed amazing restraint in that story. He warned Anna Benson, several times, that she probably shouldn’t say some things, but she persisted. She told him to write everything.
“All of it is truth,” she said then.
She grumped that Omar Minaya planned to create “an all-Latin team.” She said that the Bensons were giving a million dollars (from his $22.5 million-plus contract) to New York because of 9/11. She said if Kris were traded, the Bensons should get their money back.
She also attacked Carlos Delgado, which Rubin reported.
Yesterday, Anna and the Mets were making nice to each other again, and this story in The News was all supposed to be nonsense.
“The first rule of journalism is: ‘Don’t believe what you read in the papers,'” Anna Benson said, complaining that “quotes have been twisted around.”
Anna should take a tip from Harris Bloom — the next time this happens, claim you were just kidding around.
Perhaps the most earnest question Mike Francesa ever asked in his life was when he asked Kris Benson the other day exactly what was his wife’s career.
Huh?
Were you kidding around when you wrote “Los Mets”? (Which I hadn’t read until you pointed it out to me).
Also, why dont you take the dude who made fun of it after me to task (for whatever nearsighted reason you’ve chosen to, that is)?
Also, why dont you take the dude who made fun of it after me to task (for whatever nearsighted reason you’ve chosen to, that is)?
if harris is to be taken to task on anything it should be his grammar.
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“Were you kidding around when you wrote “Los Mets”? (Which I hadn’t read until you pointed it out to me)”
Was I kidding around when I cut and pasted the piece from the Daily News, or was I kidding around when I said that Minaya could field a team of 25 Martians for all I cared?
“Also, why dont you take the dude who made fun of it after me to task?”
Because while his joke wasn’t much funnier than yours, at least it was a variation on a tired theme rather than a fucking re-run.
Really, if you have a problem with Latin Americans making serious moolah, I promise not to tell anyone.