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Steve Phillips Suspended After Affair With ESPN Employee

Reports out of ESPN headquarters this morning say that &quot;Baseball Tonight&quot; analyst Steve Phillips is on a &quot;leave of absence,&quot; after an affair with a 22-year-old production assistant <span style="font-weight: bold">turned into a special edition DVD release of Fatal Attraction.</span>

According to the New York Post's rather lengthy deconstruction of events, Phillips had a brief fling with a fellow ESPN employee named Brooke Hundley this summer. <span style="font-weight: bold">He ended it rather quickly, which did not go over very well. She allegedly began harassing Phillips, his wife and even his teenage son—who she friended on Facebook by pretending to be a classmate, and then grilled him for personal information about the family.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">The final straw came when Phillips' wife arrived at her home to see a strange woman coming down her driveway and getting into a car (which she promptly smashed into a pole while trying to make a quick getaway.) The woman had left a very creepy letter in the front door, addressed to Phillips wife</span>. The full original letter is available on the Post website [PDF], but here are some of the bullet points laid out by Hundley:

• She and Steve first slept together in a St. Louis hotel room, but he assured her that she wouldn't get pregnant because of his vasectomy.
• How and she Steve love to text back and forth with detailed plans on how they would like to sex each other
• An uncomfortable amount of detail about the activities of her children
• How the Catholic Church will totally understand if the Phillips got a divorce, so that she and Steve can be together
• She's 22 ... but not stupid!
• A graphic description of Steve's birthmarks (on his crotch and inner thigh), just to know she's legit.

In a written statement, Phillips confessed that he had three sexual encounters with Hundley and then broke it off in July. Almost immediately after that, the woman began making phone calls to his wife, leaving voicemails, sending inappropriate texts, and making even more inappropriate Facebook overtures to his son. <span style="font-weight: bold">He says he believes her to &quot;obsessive and delusional&quot; </span>and police have become involved. Nevertheless, Phillips is suspended for at least one week and his wife has filed for divorce.

This is not the first time Phillips has run into this sort of trouble, nor is it the first incident involving the Baseball Tonight team. <span style="font-weight: bold">When he was GM of the Mets in the 1990s, Phillips had to take a leave of absence after an affair with a team employee.</span>

Expect a lot more on this before the day is over, obviously

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Re: why not to tek a piece in di office

now him is going into rehab fi sex addiction...di young lady in ? need fi jine Jenny Craig wile him deh deh..him addicted to sex n she is obviously addicted to food..bet u him did tink she would be a safe 'F' tru she a one ovaweight lova, as Heavy D would seh guess him know now seh we fat people hole awn to wi bone come wat may...dat is y we is fat in di fuss place...

[julie*mango]

Re: why not to tek a piece in di office

oh dear...this is a good reminder of why you should never dip your fountain pen into the company inkwell

[Jazz]

Re: why not to tek a piece in di office

But de fack dat de man did marrid an de gyal delusional nuh have nutten fe do wid de office... him get suspended yes - but all de odda craasiz nevva have nutten fe do wid de workplace.

If mi available an mi meet a nice guy pon de wuk who is also available - mi woulden mek de fack dat we wuk same place tap mi fram date him.

[Peasie]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _______</div><div class="ubbcode-body">oh dear...this is a good reminder of why you should never dip your fountain pen into the company inkwell </div></div><span style="font-size: 14pt">
I heard it expressed as &quot;don't sh!+ where you eat&quot;</span>

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Steve Phillips Fired By ESPN (Updated)

Steve Phillips Fired By ESPN (Updated)

Just days after being outed for having an affair with a younger co-worker, Baseball Tonight analyst and former-Met GM Steve Phillips has been fired by ESPN.

Of course, the announcement came late on Sunday night because they thought we wouldn't be paying attention. (They were correct!) It's not clear what happened between Wednesday when Phillips was &quot;granted&quot; a leave of absence and today when the network decided he had to be canned. But even the front page of ESPN.com announced the dismissal in very understated tones.

&quot;Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN,&quot; network spokesman Josh Krulewitz said in a statement. &quot;His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably damaged, and it became evident it was time to part ways.&quot;

I'll say. Just in case you have trouble parsing that statement, it seems he was fired not for having sex with a subordinate or sexual harassment or creating an unsafe work environment or even for cheating on his wife. He was fired for being an embarrassment to the company. That's where the line is, in case you were wondering. Krulewitz would not comment when asked about the employment status of Brooke Hundley, the 22-year-old production assistant who slept with Phillips and then began a steady campaign of harassment toward his family. For all we know she might still be working there, but probably won't be getting promoted anytime soon.

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Brooke Hundley Gets The Lewinsky Treatment

&quot;The biggest reason this is in the news,&quot; CBSSports.com's Gregg Doyel said on CNN yesterday, apropos the Steve Phillips saga, &quot;is because she's not real good looking.&quot; She isn't? I hadn't heard. People are usually so delicate about such things.

I mean, other than the New York Post's dubbing Brooke Hundley &quot;the shlubby seductress,&quot; &quot;the tubby temptress&quot; and &quot;the portly production assistant,&quot; of whom the press got its first glimpse when she &quot;waddled&quot; out of her apartment; and other than the Post's general habit of calling her &quot;shlubby&quot; and &quot;portly&quot; to draw a contrast with the &quot;handsome Phillips&quot; and the &quot;handsome married baseball analyst Phillips,&quot; whose wife is the &quot;beautiful, blond, green-eyed&quot; Marni, a &quot;stunning, green-eyed blonde&quot;; and other than Doyel's going on Howard Kurtz's useless Reliable Sources and calling Hundley &quot;not very pretty,&quot; &quot;not very photogenic,&quot; &quot;not real good looking&quot; and adding that all the people Googling like mad for her image have come away &quot;not impressed&quot;; and other than that one guy on Joy Behar's CNN show who compared Hundley to Jack Black and Danny Devito and declared that Marni Phillips had every reason to be nervous about a &quot;woman with an 18-inch neck&quot;; and other than Joy Behar's mistakenly referring to her as &quot;this guy Hundley&quot; and then correcting herself by saying to her panelist, &quot;You got me so crazy that she's so not attractive, I think she's a man&quot; — other than that, I'd say that, yeah, the media have been pretty mature about the irrelevant matter of her looks.