The bitter disappointment of Mets ballplayers

The Mets have a long history of trading players who go on to be superstars, preferring the immediate, if illusory benefit, of big-name stars on the waning side of their careers.

It must be hard to play on a sub-.500 team, watching your former teammates burn up the league for someone else.

This year, it looks like the Mets may actually field a credible team, but even this year is not exempt from the trademark Mets disappointment.

This disappointment is not to be found on the field, however, it's about a promise that Anna Benson, wife of ex-Met pitcher Kris Benson, made on the Howard Stern show last year, a promise now destined to be fulfilled with members of another team:

Bensons kayoed

Hubby hurler cheated, sez sexpot Anna

BY LLOYD GROVE and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Sexpot Anna Benson and her ex-Met hubby are headed for Splitsville after she caught him fooling around with one of her friends, the Daily News has learned.
The naughtiest wife in baseball filed for divorce yesterday from pitcher Kris Benson, who was traded in the off-season from the Mets to the Baltimore Orioles.

"She's completely crushed; she didn't see this coming," said Anna Benson's spokesman, Jules Feiler. "She had no choice but to take this action."

What's bad for Kris Benson could be good for new teammates Miguel Tejada, Melvin Mora and the rest of the O's.

Anna Benson once vowed to sleep with every one of her husband's teammates if she caught him in the sack with another woman.

"I told him, 'Cheat on me all you want.' If you get caught, I'm going to [have sex with] everybody on your entire team," she told Howard Stern on his radio show in 2004. "Everyone would get a turn."

But Anna Benson's spokesman warned the Orioles not to get their hopes up. "I think she was joking," Feiler said.

If you are a Mets player today, you are probably kicking yourself...or Omar Minaya.

UPDATE: As expected, Blogtopia's #1 Mets fan, Steve Gilliard, has more. And before anyone is tempted to go all "traitor to the feminist cause" on my ass, forget about it. I'm not trashing Anna Benson because she behaves in a slutty manner; that's her privilege; though Gilliard is right -- in professional sports, it does not behoove a professional male athlete to appear to be whipped by such an unaccomplished piece of trash. If Anna Benson is a feminist, then Dick Cheney is Mother Teresa.

It's not about Anna Benson's body, or what she decided to do with it. It's about Anna Benson trying to score wingnut points off of Carlos' Delgado's history of refusing to stand during the Seventh Inning Stretch playing of "God Bless America" -- a staple at ballparks in the aftermath of 9/11 as a protest against George W. Bush's Iraq war. This kind of peaceful protest is what's called "free speech" in this country, and Anna Benson, a woman for whom New York was nothing but a place in which to use her tits to advance her career, has either forgotten or never knew about the First Amendment -- unless it involves her OWN right to free speech.

Anna Benson is literally a wingnut wet dream -- a mindlessly jingoistic, moronic bimbo with huge fake hooters who spouts off on her web site about Michael Moore, America haters, and the usual litany of right-wing talking points.

But Anna Benson never understood New York, for that city, where the World Trade Center fell, is still the least jingoistic place in the country. The crap Anna Benson spouts may play south of the Mason-Dixon line, but people in New York City are capable of thought, and they weren't buying what she was selling.

It's really too bad -- too bad for the Mets, who didn't get much for Benson, but who have been gun-shy (so to speak) ever since the infamous 1980's alleged-and-later-debunked David Cone Flashing In the Bullpen incident. It's too bad for Kris Benson, who would have been a star on a contending team this year and now not only has to get used to a different league but is going to get taken to the cleaners for the standard mid-twenties male mistake of thinking with the wrong part of his anatomy. And it's too bad for Baltimore, in whose Camden Yards the end of this sorry tale is going to play out.