BOSTON -- Margo Adams took her publicity tour for her Penthouse article to the city where Wade Boggs plays third base Friday, and fans welcomed her the same way they do Red Sox rivals.
Adams, the spurned mistress of Boggs, took some verbal abuse on the local talk-show circuit, with one caller saying she needed a 'swift kick in the butt.'
Several callers to two televised talk shows said Adams did not deserve any money from her $12 million palimony suit against Boggs, and a member of the studio audience said Boggs's wife and two children are 'the real victims' of the tawdry tale.
Adams sold the story of her four-year liaison with Boggs to Penthouse magazine and is on a 10-city publicity tour.
'I've been following this story and I'm really mad about it,' said a woman caller to one program. 'The only thing you deserve is a swift kick in the butt.'
Adams replied, smiling, 'That's probably true.'
A woman in the studio audience challenged Adams' assertion that Boggs hit well after they were together, asking, 'Should you sleep with everybody on the team so they can win the World Series?'
The Red Sox have not won baseball's top prize since 1918.
Adams told one heckler to stop being rude to her, saying she came to Boston not to sell magazines but to be 'fair.' Boggs had been grilled for months over her lawsuit, Adams said, so she sought to prove 'I can take the heat too.'
Meanwhile, a local radio station is deluged with requests for 'The Ballad of Wade and Margo,' a parody sung to the tune of 'The Ballad of John and Yoko,' recorded in 1969 by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
'Playing third base for the Red Sox, spending lots of time on the road, I need some action, some satisfaction, I guess I'm just a horny toad,' says the song airing on WAAF-FM.
'(Hey), you know it gets sleazy, but it can be kind of fun, when you are a victim, of sexual addiction.'
Boggs maintained he suffered an addiction to sex, which he diagnosed after watching an episode of the syndicated Geraldo Rivera show. A Boston newspaper editorial termed the third baseman's affliction 'rabbit fever.'
Many fans are simply sick of it all.
'Let's play baseball. I've had it up to my mustache with this whole thing,' said Tommy Leonard, a bartender at the Eliot Lounge, a well-known Boston sports bar. 'I don't know who to believe in this thing and I don't even care.
'The sports page isn't even fun to read anymore. It's like reading a drug log,' he said. 'I wish I could read more stories about (golfer) Fuzzy Zoeller or (skier) Tamara McKinney or (marathoner) Joan Benoit Samuelson or some of the other good people.'
