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 Like most folks, I normally hate Flash video intros to Web sites and click the “Skip” link as fast as possible. The one at Anna Benson Enterprises (clicked via link from Cam Edwards) is pretty good, though, featuring a cartoon Anna Benson dancing to Kanye West’s “Gold Digger.”
There’s no better way to defuse hurtful gossip than with well done, self-deprecating humor.
NY Post’s Jeane MacIntosh confirms earlier reports that Anna Benson has withdrawn her divorce petition. It seems however, that there was a little hanky panky going on:
Days after hurling divorce papers at her husband, smoking baseball wife Anna Benson has decided to give him an intentional pass. After a weekend in seclusion at her suburban Atlanta mansion, the ex-stripper rescinded her divorce petition against former Mets pitcher Kris Benson, her lawyer said yesterday. Just hours after The Post caught a glimpse of the brunette bombshell — looking haggard and weary as she sat with two friends on the steps of her $2 million gray stucco mansion — Anna decided to try and salvage the marriage despite the alleged infidelity of her hubby.
Anna had called it quits amid reports that Kris — traded in the off-season to the Baltimore Orioles — got well past first base with one of her gorgeous friends. Yesterday, she had lawyer Jeffrey Bogart withdraw the divorce petition she filed Thursday night in Georgia Superior Court in Atlanta.
“She expresses her love for her husband and her sincere desire to reconcile their marriage,” Bogart said.
“I think Anna did some soul-searching over the weekend and decided that she wanted to make every effort to repair her marriage. Hopefully, Kris feels the same way.”
Dude:
Let’s not get greedy, m’kay?
via OTB Sports
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 from OTB
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