I’m wondering if Boston Red Sox starting pitcher John Lackey‘s ire towards the Boston media after Sunday’s second game had anything to do with this.
According to TMZ, Lackey has filed for divorce from his wife Krista who as we learned during spring training, was battling breast cancer.
Lackey filed on August 30, according to court docs in Texas, claiming “the marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.” Krista and John got married in November, 2008.
Sources close to the family tell TMZ … Krista underwent a double mastectomy back in March and underwent chemo as recently as June.
The divorce petition says John and Krista had a prenup. It also says Lackey has “separate property” he wants to keep for himself.
I’m not here to judge Lackey’s decision about divorcing his wife. Obviously that is between them and them alone.
What bothers me is what happened before this came out on TMZ at Lackey’s postgame presser.
“Let me tell you the truth. Thirty minutes before the game, I got a text message on my cellphone from one of you … somebody in the media, talking about personal stuff,” said Lackey. “And I shouldn’t even be standing up here having to deal with it. I’m sitting here listening to music. I don’t know who got my phone number, but that’s over the line. Anything else you guys want to talk about?”
Initially the buzz on Twitter after the game was that it might have been one of the Boston media members that texted him. But seeing how this report of Lackey filing divorce papers coming out on TMZ after the incident, I wonder if it was someone from TMZ that got his number somehow from the papers or another source.
Either way, whether a member of the Boston media or any other news organization or even a tabloid like TMZ, contacting him like he was, 30 minutes before he’s scheduled to pitch, is inappropriate and just wrong. The last thing he needed was another distraction and while I haven’t been his biggest fan this season, I am on his side in this.
I know people want to be first in getting the story in this day and age of social media but there’s a time and a place for it. Just not when the dude is pitching perhaps the biggest game of the season for the Red Sox.
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