NY- The bombshell wife of Mets pitcher Kris Benson blew up at the Amazin’s yesterday for trying to trade her husband – and charged her negotiations to pose nude for Playboy were to blame.
Sexy Anna Benson insisted she’s not baring it all anytime soon and ripped the Mets for shopping her hubby just a year after signing him to a four-year deal.
“We would never, ever have signed with New York if they had said they were going to trade us,” said Anna Benson, 29. “I was Miss [Politically Correct] for the Mets the entire time I was there.
“I have no deal with Playboy,” she said, adding that talks crumbled last month over money.
The pinup model also blasted the team for signing Carlos Delgado, who she suggested is unpatriotic because he has, in the past, refused to stand for the playing of “God Bless America.”
“How are they going to sit there and say it’s so controversial when they sign someone like Delgado, who turns his back on our flag?” Anna Benson said.
Still, posing in her birthday suit would be as American as apple pie, said Benson, who once threatened to sleep with the entire Mets team if she caught her husband cheating.
“Playboy is all-American. Everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Cindy Crawford has posed,” fumed Benson, who once posed topless for Penthouse. “They didn’t turn their back on the flag.”
Mets brass have acknowledged trying to move Kris Benson and his $7.5 million salary, and insiders say management is uncomfortable with the prospect of Anna Benson posing nude for Playboy.
But a team spokesman shot down the trade rumors and insisted there would be no ruffled feathers in Flushing over a Playboy pictorial.
“We do not make moves based on anything the players’ wives do,” said Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz. “We know she’s trying to build a career for herself and we wish her well.”
Kris Benson, 31, had a so-so first full season with the Amazin’s, going 10-8 with a 4.13 earned run average.
But Anna Benson angrily called the Mets out for saying they planned to build the team around him when they inked the free agent to a deal last year.
“They wanted [veteran pitcher] Tommy [Glavine] to school him, and then they turn around and trade us?” she asked. “The whole thing is upsetting to everybody.”
The hot-under-the-collar hottie says she’s also angry because the couple came to New York, in part, to help 9/11 charities. Some $1 million in Kris Benson’s contract is earmarked for charitable donations.
“We wanted to help the city because of 9/11,” Anna Benson said. “We specifically did it for New York, and then they turn around and trade us? I just don’t understand.”