I continue to maintain that the “fans spit on Kristen Lee” thing is being blown way out of proportion. If you’re going to take anything from her comments it’s not that, which was a brief, one-sentence aside. It’s the several things she had to say about liking Dallas, wanting to be close to Arkansas and her and her husband’s smaller town temperament. For his part, Cliff Lee is blowing it off too:
“I brush that off as fans being fans. You can’t control 50,000 people and what they’re going to do. There were some people that were spitting off the balcony on the family section and things like that, and that’s kind of weak, but what can you do? No, I don’t know the guy that did it. It could be anyone. Who knows? Who cares? They’re at home right now.”
And, quite predictably and quite understandably, Cliff Lee’s agent Darek Braunecker -- who certainly doesn’t want the Yankees or any other team to shy away from his client -- says that the Kristen Lee stuff will have no bearing whatsoever on where Lee ends up signing:
“The story is not an issue to us. Her experience in New York is certainly a non-issue. She enjoys New York as much as anyone enjoys New York.”
“As much as anyone enjoys New York?” Wow, I had no idea it was that bad.