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Anna Benson's curveball a big hit with Stern
Eric Heyl is a Tribune-Review staff writer. He can be reached via e-mail or 412-320-7857.
--- PNC Park?
As a baseball stadium, it's superb. As a trysting place, people probably would agree it falls far short of any hotel honeymoon suite or even the cramped back seat of a Ford Escort.
It was, however, plenty good enough for former Pirates pitcher Kris Benson and his wife, Anna.
Appearing this week on Howard Stern's syndicated radio show, Anna Benson, a men's magazine covergirl, made a startling admission. She confessed that before her husband's trade to the New York Mets last summer, Kris hadn't balked at the chance to occasionally round the bases with the missus in the park's cozy confines.
She did not reveal whether the two of them ever reached home plate simultaneously.
More bashful types might consider a 38,000-seat baseball stadium an odd and inappropriate place for such a rendezvous.
Not the frisky Bensons -- even though they likely had to endure the risks of Kris occasionally performing while wearing his spikes.
"We're very busy because we have three children," Anna Benson told Stern. "You know what, whenever we get the time to do it, we do it. If it happens to be there, that's where we do it."
She did not disclose exactly where "there" was in PNC Park.
Obviously, it didn't happen in the press box. If you're looking for a private moment, the last place to be is around a bunch of nosy reporters. As reporters also can be found in the locker room -- along with Pirates players -- the possibility is slight they did it there.
The kids' playland area near the right-field gate also can be ruled out. The kind of play the Bensons engaged in was adults-only.
This is pure speculation, but I believe the most likely locales in the ballpark for such activity were in or around the Score Amore panini place or the Sweet Spot ice cream parlor.
There is no more romantically named spot in the ballpark than Score Amore, and what better place to heat things up that a frozen confectionery shop?
If I am correct in my assumptions, you probably wonder why the Bensons wouldn't be worried about being interrupted by curious onlookers in such a public place.
My best guess is the couple was well aware of the penalty for doing so. PNC Park has a strict zero-tolerance policy regarding fan interference with any player.
No matter what his position.
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