Playerwives was born out of a simple bar room argument:
“What player on the Red Sox has the hottest wife?”
What seemed like a simple question spawned a slew of different answers. The argument resolved without a clear answer. After discovering the caliber of the wives on the Red Sox alone, there was no concrete agreement about who the hottest wife was between Kelli Pedroia, Farah Johnson Lester, Ashley Papelbon, and Jamie Kotsay. The only agreement that could be made is that Tiffany Ortiz did not take the crown.
This conversation led to more conversations about the hottest wives and girlfriends in sports and so we went digging for further information. What we found was that while a ton of players were able to date and marry way out of their class by taking home the shiniest trophy on the shelf, some of them stayed with girls from home that may or may not win any beauty contest. Our search made us realize 2 things:
- There is no pattern when it comes to the romantic life of a pro athlete, and
- There is no one site dedicated to chronicling the wives and girlfriends of a pro athlete
Playerwives seeks to fill that void, while having some fun in the process.
Playerwives is created by two guys from Boston who know a thing or two about dating girls way out of their league.
thinds is a guy that used to play his “I play college football” card in a desperate effort to pull trim. It should come as a surprise to no one that this line never seemed to work. The pathetic romantic foibles of an “athlete” that never made it to the level where that card counts for something is probably the birth of his snarky and cynical commentary on the girls he chronicles. He enjoys spending time bragging to people about his fantasy baseball team and getting mad about the fact that Scott freakin Podsednik managed to pull Lisa Dergan.
BigRed can fake his way through a sports argument with the best of them, despite not knowing much about any sport other than basketball. A diehard Celtics fan, he made it through the 90’s by rooting for favorite player Charles Barkley and the Suns, catching shit for it from virtually everyone. He continuosly finds new ways to justify his Celtics season tickets (”business” expense…) and views this website as yet another reason. BigRed is the Utah Jazz of fantasy sports, always making the conference finals and finals - but never winning, though as all Red Sox fans know very well, “maybe this is the year”.
TheMistress is a sports fan through and through. From baseball and hockey to luge and underwater basketweaving, you can find The Mistress watching it all. When she isnt wearing her “This is JOEPA’s house!” shirt, or crying over the patheticism that is the Pittsburgh Pirates, The Mistress can be found ogling over married baseball coaches or their overly hot wives. A hopeless un-romantic, TheMistress thinks one day she will marry Matt Stairs and they will drink LaBatt’s and hit pinch hit bombs together. She once threw a drink on former Toronto Blue Jay Rob Ducey for checking out her boobs. She thanks the boys of playerwives.com for letting her voice her opinions on some of the most debated and pertinent topics in sports today.
