Yankee Fans Never Spit Nor Threw Beer On Cliff Lee's Wife

Lee dismissed the idea that he spurned the Yankees because of harassment of his wife by New York fans during the American League Championship Series.

“That was way overblown,” he said. “It was false and had zero to do with the whole thing.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-15/pitcher-cliff-lee-signs-five-year-120-million-agreement-with-phillies.html

Another quote I really love from Cliff Lee was this one...

“There’s plenty of money,” he said. “When you hit a certain point, enough’s enough. It’s just a matter of where you are comfortable, where you are happy.”

I'm trying to tell people that even if this whole spitting thing did happen, that it didn't affect his decision. No way he goes to his wife and say, "You know what? I'll make it up to you. For the fans spitting on you, I'll take $40 million less. How does that sound?"

The contract offer in Texas was a lot as well. If he was in it for the money, and didn't like that the fans spit on his wife, he would have simply taken their offer. The fact that he took the less years and less money tells everyone that he WANTED to go back to Philly. His quotes say it all.

Well...you have a quote with no video evidence. While I have a quote that he said in a press conference while asking a question that was broadcasted on the MLB Network.

I'll stand by the quote I read and heard.

Well I don't know.....but I'm not about to believe opposing fans/wives have never had things thrown at them or been spit at in Yankees stadium........as much as 95% of this forum likes to act like only Philadelphia fans are savages, that kind of stuff happens at sporting events everywhere.......especially in bigger cities

So you're saying Cliff Lee is the one lying? It's easy to take the side of one that makes the fans look bad right?

It was a scam. His wife made it all up because she wanted him to go to Philly. Makes sense now.

Fuck You Mrs. Lee.

I honestly think it was a lot of things.......he even said in his first interview at the airport last night something like....."a whole lotta pros and not many cons" (to coming back to Philly)

-he had been here before and liked the players, coach, atmosphere (yes even the fans boys)

-he keeps mentioning the starting staff, so he thinks this is the best chance to win I think

-maybe his son did play a part

-and I don't know for a fact, but I'd guess his wife, all things being equal, didn't want to go to New York

It was not just Lee's wife who claimed she had beer spilled on and spat at....other players of the Rangers wives' have claimed the same thing. 

Lee's statements are him being politically correct...it happened, I didn't even know that there was skeptism and yankee fans thought otherwise of the claims until seeing this thread.