Brett Myers’ wife gets her revenge

Brett Myers has a black eye.

First, the Phillies were told that he was hit in the eye while playing catch with his son.

Now, according to a report by Philadelphia Inquirer Phillies beat reporter Andy Martino, Myers really suffered the black eye when he fell out of his wife's Escalade.

“What
actually happened was, he slipped getting out of his car last night,
hit his face and suffered significant swelling around his eye—I don’t
know which eye yet, I’m trying to find out," said GM Ruben Amaro through Phillies spokesman Kevin Gregg. "He’s icing it today, he’s going to see our medical staff tomorrow in Clearwater...We were misinformed by Brett.”

Inquirer reporter Phil Sheridan
contacted Myers and got more details on what happened. According to
Sheridan, Myers and his wife Kim went out with friends to dinner in
Palm Harbor, FL. Myers was in the back seat of the vehicle, with the
couple's babysitter driving. Myers said that he tripped while passing
through the center aisle chairs and hit his face on the side of the car.

Considering
that Myers was arrested in 2006 in Boston for assaulting his wife, the
couple conceded that the current situation could raise some questions,
but she insisted it was simply a "freak accident."

"No, I did not hit him with a frying pan," Kim Myers said.

When asked why he originally lied about what happened, Myers said: "Because I felt like an idiot."

Martino placed a call to the Pinellas' County Sherriff's department to see if any
incidents had been reported involving Myers in the past 24 hours, but
was told that no one was available to answer press inquiries on
Saturday.