Anna Benson Files for Divorce
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James Joyner | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
Anna Benson is filing for divorce from pitcher Kris Benson, who apparently is not dealing well with the effect her antics are having on his career.
Anna Benson wants a divorce from Baltimore Orioles pitcher Kris Benson, who still thinks the New York Mets traded him because of his impulsive wife. Anna Benson, an actress and model who has posed topless, filed for divorce in Atlanta on Thursday. The petition for divorce claims the marriage is “irretrievably broken.” The couple has been married for seven years. Anna and Kris Benson have yet to comment on the divorce petition.
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In 2005, his first full season with the Mets, Benson allowed three runs or fewer in 19 starts. He was 10-8 with a 4.31 ERA, but New York won 17 of the 28 games in which he pitched. Despite those numbers, the right-hander was traded to the Orioles in January for pitchers Jorge Julio and John Maine. There was speculation that the deal was perpetuated by the behavior of Anna, who has her own web site and publicly discussed intimate details of their sex life.
Mets general manager Omar Minaya contended that Anna Benson was not a factor in the trade. Kris Benson isn’t buying it. “New York is just a world of its own. I knew that coming in, but you learn that a little more when you get put in the spotlight like that in a negative and undeserving way,” Kris Benson said. “It was a little frustrating at the time because people kind of believe what they read. For her it’s been a little tough, because they kind of portray her in a negative light.”
Anna Benson wore a provocative dress at the team Christmas party, and there was talk that she was considering posing nude for Playboy. Kris Benson bristles at the memory. “We learned a lot from the whole situation. You look at some of the things that were said, some of the lies that were passed, who believes what, who your friends are, who your friends aren’t,” he said.
He said Anna never had a serious conversation with representatives from Playboy, and that her attire at the party was “not as revealing as people say it is. The only thing they fed off is when she kind of bent over and someone took a picture of it. It’s an exaggeration of the truth, and now the Mets are going to miss out on a quality starter and the Orioles are going to benefit.”
It is indeed a bizarre situation for a baseball team and, in more ways than one, a distraction. Anna Benson is a beautiful woman who attracts a lot of attention (as my referral logs occasionally remind me) but not all of it is good from the perspective of a professional organization.
Crosspost to OTB Sports and Gone Hollywood
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About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Is this the first triple post to all of the OTB blogs? ;)
The Don Knotts and Buck Owens obituaries went on OTB, OTB News, and Gone Hollywood. There haven't been any that went on all four of the sites, I don't think.
Is this where she bangs the rest of the team?
Delay aid pleads guilty, Rice admits clusterf__k in Iraq. But hey, lets talk about a brainless narcissist in a bikini. What's next for OTB, a regular feature about Britney Spears?
On the other hand, I can see why you guys want to talk about anything but what is happening in the real world...
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