Boston Red Sox Wives and Girlfriends (WAGS)
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- We were originally tipped off about this rumored relationship by a reader just over a week ago. Ben Cherington is fiercely guarded about his personal life, so it wasn't a surprise for us to find nothing online about this relationship. However, in advance of tomorrow's announcement that Ben Cherington will be promoted to General Manager of the Boston Red Sox, we've gotten another tip from a different reader claiming the same thing. So while we have found nothing publicly to support this relationship, we've gotten a couple tips essentially saying the same thing.
Tyler is the product of a baseball bloodline. Her father, John Tumminia, has been a scout with the Chicago White Sox for over 30 years. The self described "New York girl," works as the VP of Marketing and Operations for Goldkang Group, where she has directly helped to launch and host "Be Your Own Fan." Tyler hosts a bi-weekly web based show for BYOF, where she travels to various locations to show the business side of sports. Episodes can be seen here.
If we get confirmation of the two being together (for example, if she's at tomorrow's presser), we'll be sure to keep you posted.
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- While perusing the various sports gossip sites on the morning of October 12, 2011, one headline caught our attention. The Boston Herald ran with a story headlined "Youk and Brady's Sis Spark Rumors."
After I discovered this headline, I immediately emailed my PlayerWives counterpart to check out the story, which I would update later in the day. Unfortunately for us, the story was down by mid morning, with no mention of why or referral to a retraction.
The jist of the story suggests that while attending Sunday's Pats vs. Jets game in Foxborough, Youk and Nancy Brady were getting cozy in Tom Brady's private suite. Nancy, who has moved to Boston to more or less serve as brother Tom's personal assistant, also spends time volunteering to work with children in the area.
Kevin Youkilis has apparently denied the rumor, though the Herald's original source said that “they were mugging it up in the box.” On the surface, the fact that the Herald took the story down so quickly would suggest that there's nothing to it. However the cynic in us wonders if maybe someone's representatives got to the Herald to take down the story. Considering how fiercely guarded the Brady family has been of their personal lives and how badly Youk's last public relationship wound up, it would not shock us if publicists managed to convince the Gossip section of the Herald to pull it down.
If there's any truth to the rumors, we'll find out eventually. Can't stay hidden long in Boston...
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- UPDATE: 10-12-2011: After Theo Epstein left the Boston Red Sox to become GM of the Chicago Cubs, the rumor mill immediately starting churning as to who would replace him. Our money to replace Epstein as general manager of the Red Sox is on current Vice President of Player Personnel/former interim-GM/long-time Red Sox understudy, Ben Cherington.
- Fast Facts: Ben Cherington's wife Wendi Nix is a sports reporter for ESPN. Well, we should say ex-wife as they are apparently now divorced. Wendi Nix formerly worked for WHDH in Boston as well as Fox Sports Net, WPDE in South Carolina and NESN. Ben Cherington and Wendy Nix met while he attended Amherst College and she attended UMass Amherst for her Master's degree.
The couple divorced at some point before a 2010 interview with the Myrtle Beach Tribune, in which Wendi announced that her and Ben had divorced. In another interview, this with Coastal Carolina Home & Lifestyle Wendy indicated that she was seeing someone new, saying "I don’t have a husband or kids, but I have someone very important in my life right now and it just requires very good communication and trading calendars". Who might Wendi Nix's boyfriend be? Our research found no clues unfortunately.
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- UPDATE: 10-12-2011: According to a Boston Globe article, the Red Sox brass was apparently concerned that Terry Francona's painkiller addiction affected his job performance. Tito denies this (obviously) but it does make you wonder. Something else that the Globe outed was that Francona apparently spent the entire season living out of a hotel after separating from his wife of 30 years, Jacque Lang. Francona moved out of the couples' Brookline home and spent the season in a hotel but, again of course, he denies that these marital problems caused any problems with his managing. Given how the season ended, it's hard to believe that a separation of a 30 year marriage and a possible addiction to painkillers had nothing to do with the epic collapse of the Red Sox. We wish Tito nothing but the best but wonder if perhaps the split from the Red Sox isn't the best course of action for both parties.
- Time Together: Terry Francona married Jacque Lang on January 9, 1982, in the first offseason following Tito's rookie year with the Montreal Expos. The couple has four children, son Nicholas, and daughters Alyssa, Leah, and Jamie. Baseball runs in the family blood, with Terry's father having been a former major leaguer. Terry's son Nicholas played baseball through college and some Cape Cod League ball, while two daughters played softball for UNC. Until today, when the Red Sox blundered by firing Tito, he and Jacque lived in Brookline, MA.
While living in Brookline, Terry and Jacque were key members of the community in supporting various charities, most notably hosting a gala called "Believing in Brookline Kids," to help found the Brookline Community Mental Health Center Kids’ Fund.
- Fun Facts: On a personal note:
Terry Francona was arguably the best manager and almost inarguably the most important manager in Red Sox history. The guy could always handle the press, the fans, and for the most part, an eclectic and at times difficult cast of characters in the clubhouse. What ranks at the top of the list of awesome Terry Francona moments comes from an infamous picture floating the web of Tito standing shirtless and flexing at what is purportedly his daughter's engagement party, while the guy rumored to be his future son-in-law looks on in terror. There's just something about the stoic, stone faced, shirtless and gun flexing Francona that speaks volumes about the dude.
Thank you for the two rings, Tito, and best of luck with your next team.
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- Fast Facts: OK, we're going to play this one straight for now, until we unleash DJ Pullout on this post.
In 2003, Royal Palm Beach High School catching stud Jarrod Saltalamacchia was making a name for himself aside from the already unforgettable surname he already carried. Salty was drafted in the first round by the Atlanta Braves, and one would assume that Royal Palm Beach would be buzzing with the hometown kid who was about to make it.
There's a pretty solid chance however, that Salty was creating buzz in his hometown for an entirely different reason.
Enter Ashley Saltalamacchia nee Patrick or Perry (which no one can really seem to nail down). Ashley was a gym teacher at Royal Palm Beach High while Jarrod was a student there, though she later confirmed that she never actually taught him. Ashley was in fact one of the first to supply details of their relationship in an 2006 interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution, citing the need to get in front of the story before it became a scandal. Ashley, who was born in 1971, 14 years before Jarrod, said that the two began dating in the fall of 2004, a year after he graduated. They were married on July 12, 2005, less than a year after their relationship reportedly began. The couple lives in West Palm Beach, FL in the offseason, with their three children (youngest born in April, 2011).
DJ Pullout, the floor is yours:
Good for him. I would bang her too. I mean chicks hit their sexual prime way later than dudes do. So what if she is robbing the cradle. I wish I were in that cradle. Sign me up..... take me to jail. I wonder what their kids will say when they realize that. Also... you think they were like getting it on in the locker room? If so Boys or Girls locker room? I bet they were in the girls locker room. Saltalamacchia looks like the type that would be in there stealing girls panties. What a perv.
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- UPDATE: 09-28-2011: With the John and Krista Lackey divorce story hitting the national landscape, our inbox has seen a number of tips and stories about some of the details behind the divorce. While most of these emails are nothing more than inane speculation, we have had one qualified tip sent in from a source who would prefer to remain anonymous.
According to our source, security was recently called to John Lackey's home residence over the past few days, as an intoxicated Lackey was apparently intoxicated and breaking things. We do not believe police were called in, rather private security to handle. We are also under the impression that Krista was not at home during the incident. We'll have more details if they come available.
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09-27-2011: After his start on Sunday night against the Yankees but before the news of his pending divorce had broken, John Lackey lashed out at an anonymous media member who had sent him a text message on the matter just 30 minutes before his start. All he would say was, "Thirty minutes before the game I got a text message on my cell phone from one of you, somebody in the media, talking about personal stuff. I shouldn't even have to be standing up here dealing with it. I'm sitting here, listening to music. I don't know who got my phone number, but that's over the line."
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09-26-2011: TMZ has found court documents filed in Texas on August 30th that indicate John Lackey has filed for divorce from his wife, Krista Lackey. We can only hope that this divorce is unrelated to Krista's ongoing fight with cancer, but really find the timing awful. The report also indicated that Lackey had a prenuptial agreement with his, soon to be, ex-wife Krista Lackey. As Red Sox fans, we'd like to write off his poor performance this season to marital troubles but we highly doubt that he'll be any better one he is divorced.
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05-12-2011: Back in February, John Lackey told reporters that he spent much of his off-season in California so that his wife, Krista Lackey, could get treatment for breast cancer. At that time, he said that she was doing well. Fast forward to last night, Lackey continued his recent string of awful pitching and in his post-game interview, said that "Everything in my life sucks right now". Understandably, especially given the cancer issues that Krista had gone through, none of the reporters pressed Lackey for details. We're hoping that this doesn't mean that Krista is having further complications with breast cancer.
- Fast Facts: Krista Clark Lackey is a native Mainer who went on to graduate from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in tourism and event planning. The native New Englander admits that when she and John first started dating she had to convince her father, brother and sister stop wearing their Red Sox gear around the former Angel ace.
- Quote: Alright, so last year at this time, in a bitter and jealous fit, we may have trashed Mark Teixeira for letting his wife make his free agent decision.
In the interest of full disclosure, John openly admitted that he was lured to the Red Sox in part because of Krista. "I definitely had to have my agent really let them [The Red Sox] know I was serious about this. The wife helped out a lot. (He told them), My wife went to UNH.”
I'm desperately searching for a way to call this ok without looking like a hypocrite in view of my previous stance towards Leigh Teixeira, but I'm coming up empty. I'll say it anyways: Krista Lackey's influence is OK by us.
And so is being a homer and a hypocrite.
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- UPDATE: After getting married in Vegas in February, as planned, the Beckett's are getting to work on having a family. According to the Boston Herald, Holly is due with the couple's first child in the fall. For Red Sox Nation's sake, and probably Holly's sake while she's expecting, let's hope he's nor born during the playoffs. Josh gets a little intense, and I don't think he'd be the greatest delivery room coach.
- Time Together: The two have been together for a while, and got engaged while attending the Daytona 500 in February, 2010. According to their registry, the two are scheduled to be engaged on February 1, 2011.
- Fast Facts: So who exactly does a nasty, fire breathing, fire ballin', mean ol' Texan ask to marry him?
The answer might surprise you. After putting together a fairly solid big league tail resume, Beckett returned to his roots. Holly Fisher is a member of the Spring High School Class of 99 (same as Beckett). She went on to earn a degree in Aeronautical Engineering before getting a job at Boeing while she pursued her masters degree in the same field. She currently works as a space engineering consultant for a company on the west coast and has her pilot's license. That's right,... Josh Beckett is about to marry a rocket scientist, in every literal sense of the word.
- Fun Facts: So everyone remembers the Brian McCann wedding registry debacle (though his Mrs. Brian McCann's mother is a sweetheart of a woman, and I'm not being sarcastic). Well, even though he's a Red Sox, we'd be remiss to not poke fun at the Beckett-Fisher registry.
After signing a 4 year $68 Million dollar deal earlier this spring (which he's currently doing a bang up job of earning (and I sadly have to clarify that I am being sarcastic here)), the couple has registered for the following item's: Gift cards to Macy's, Bloomingdale's, JC Penney's and Amazon.com. Seriously. Gift cards. That's it.
Now, I'm going to pull back the curtain here for a second and reveal that both of the guys running this site are engaged (and to be clear, we're engaged to women that are indisputably hotter and cooler than we deserve, and no, we're not engaged to each other you fuckheads.) I think that Josh Beckett has given us a great idea, because seriously, who the fuck uses a gravy boat? Wouldn't it be better to just get cash towards what you want than to register for towels? At first, I thought the idea was tacky, but I'm all the way in on this one. Like in the 07 playoffs,... thank you Josh Beckett. Thank you.
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