Less than a week after the New York Post that ESPN analyst Steve Phillips had an affair with Brooke Hundley, a 22-year-old production assistant with the network, he was given a pink slip. The network announced on Sunday that:“Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN. 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.”Besides the news that Steve Phillips was fired, Steve Lefkowitz, Phillips' agent, said in a statement that Phillips had entered an inpatient treatment facility "to address his personal issues."
This isn't the first such incident for Steve Phillips. When he was GM of the New York Mets, he was forced to take a leave of absence in 1998 because of a series of affairs and an accusation of sexual harassment by a Mets employee. One of his mistresses, Rosa Rodriguez, surfaced late last week as well.
While ESPN first gave Steve Phillips a leave of absence, it became apparent that the affair was too embarrassing for the network, and that Steve Phillips had to be fired.
Steve Phillips had just been "promoted" this season. He had been elevated from work as a full-time studio analyst to the “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan.
Brooke Hundley hasn't exactly enjoyed the "outing" herself. While reports indicate that she actually had a sort of "fatal attraction" affair with Steve Phillips, it's also created a firestorm of media --- and public --- interest in her, including people trolling Brooke Hundley's MySpace and Facebook pages.
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