I'm guessing not too many Broadsheet readers/writers know much about Kris Benson - he was an extremely high draft pick of the Pirates back in the mid-1990's and got tons of hype as the next great righthanded starting pitcher - he hasn't come close to living up to the hype either with the Pirates or the Mets - Kris was traded because he's an overpaid mediocrity.

>>"I'm more pissed that people are centering on me as one of the reasons; I don't feel that's fair.">> right lady, that's why you keep talking about YOURSELF to the press over and over and over again. Geeze, the ego on that girl.

My (very limited) knowledge of the Orioles is that they are a much more reserved and conservative team than the Mets, and certainly than the Pirates.

That's beside the point, 'cause they trade players because of the players, not their wives. Yah girl, it is NOT all about you.

LOL

what an ego

Nobody finding this under Broadsheet will likely care, but the Mets got taken to the cleaners in that deal. Jorge Julio is the second coming of Armando Benitez, and he's had exactly one good year. Benson is reliable as a fourth starter; no stud, but you can do a lot worse (as the Mets will soon discover).

Rebecca, as a lifelong Mets fan, I've long followed the antics of Anna Benson, and at first, she seemed to me to be a refreshingly independent spirit also.

But perhaps you'd be less sympathetic towards Anna's plight if you knew that shortly after the Mets acquired first baseman Carlos Delgado from the Florida Marlins, she blasted the team for doing so because, in her opinion, Delgado was "unpatriotic" for refusing to stand when "God Bless America" was played during the seventh-inning stretch. Delgado (a native of Puerto Rico) has done this ever since the start of the Iraq War, which he openly opposes (a stance considered "radical" in the rah-rah-USA world of MLB).

After reading the right-wing screed issued by her about it on her Web site (which also included a tirade against PETA for beign anti-fur) I abandoned any hope I had had for Anna Benson being a woman who had a mind of her own. Turns out the mind she really has is Ann Coulter's.

Nice Santa suit, though.

But she's correct that it wasn't her fault her husband was traded. That was a salary dump, plain and simple, of a player who was wildly overpaid considering his mediocre production. If Kris Benson were an 18-game winner, Anna could have shown up at whatever function she wanted in whatever state of undress she wanted and they wouldn't have traded him noway nohow. Maybe they'd have tossed her a bathrobe if she showed up butt nekkid, but that's it.

I can only say good riddance to the Bensons. Anna is utterly self-obsessed, not to mention being a silly cow who spouts right wing talking points and mistakes them for ideas, and her husband is an overpaid underachiever. Carlos Delgado, on the other hand, is intelligent, thoughtful, and a great player.