Baseball analyst Steve Phillips was fired by ESPN on Sunday night, less than a week after he admitted having an affair with a production assistant Brooke Hundley at the cable network. When Steve Phillips came clean about his affair with 22-year-old Brooke Hundley it became a media frenzy. ESPN decided it was time to separate itself from Steve Phillips infidelity issues and fired him.
Somehow this does not come as a big surprise. Neither does the fact that according to his representative, Steve Lefkowitz, he is "voluntarily admitting himself to an inpatient treatment facility to address his personal issues."
The statement from ESPN announcing the departure of Steve Phillips from his position as baseball analyst was not unexpected.
"Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN," network spokesman Josh Krulewitz said in a statement. "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."
The time line from start to finish of this much publicized affair was short. Thankfully, ESPN chose to fire Steve Phillips instead of letting him off the hook and risk yet another affair with a co-worker down the road.
In less than a week, Steve Phillips went from well-paid ESPN Baseball Analyst to a man without a job, a wife of 19 years who has already filed for divorce and a father of four boys who must endure that pain of a broken family. All over the fact that Phillips cannot seem to keep to his wedding vows...or keep his pants on.
According to a police report filed in Wilton, Conn., Brooke Hundley began calling Phillips' wife, Marni, on Aug. 5 after Phillips broke off the brief affair and sent her a letter graphically describing their relationship and the 46-year-old Phillips' birthmarks. The whole affair reeked of "Fatal Attraction" and Steve Phillips reported it to the police to protect the very family that he will now break apart.
Infidelity is nothing new to former NY Mets General Manager Steve Phillips. Last week one of his former mistresses, Rosa Rodriguez, suddenly surfaced and smiled for the camera as if she were a celebrity.
In 1998, Phillips was the general manager for the New York Mets and his tryst with Mets employee Rosa Rodriguez made sports headlines. Rodriguez filed sexual harassment suit against Steve Phillips back in 1998. Steve Phillips admitted to consensual sex with Rosa Rodriguez, as well as multiple other affairs. Phillips was fired by the Mets in 2003.
Steve Phillips was hired by ESPN as a baseball analyst in 2005. It is not known if Phillips had other affairs during his tenure at ESPN, but it will be interesting to see if anyone comes forward after his firing.
Brooke Hundley, the 22 year old who had the brief affair with Steve Phillips, has apparently taken down her MySpace and Facebook accounts in an effort to protect her privacy. That's borderline humorous after she went to such lengths to make her affair with Steve Phillips public.
Written by Cheryl Phillips
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sources: ESPN, Forbes
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