Details On The Steve Phillips Scandal
Baseball analyst Steve Phillips had an extra-marital affair with a production assistant.
If you've been watching the Major League playoffs, you probably have noticed a preponderance of bad calls. Guys who were called safe were clearly out, drives down the line were called foul when they were clearly fair and strategic substitutions were made that clearly made no sense. Something about poor judgment is in the baseball gestalt.
That's why it's not terribly surprising that the New York Post is reporting that ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips has been making some really bad calls in his personal life. Per the Post, the former general manager of the New York Mets had an extra-marital affair with a PA (production assistant). Steve Phillips had a summer fling with a Brooke Hundley and it turned ugly after he broke it off. Read: 3 Ways To Handle Infidelity Like A Celebrity
The 22-year old did not take the breakup well and began supposedly began harassing the Phillips family. This harassment included creepy phone calls, a surreptitiously-delivered letter followed by a scary car-crash, Facebooking and stalking Phillips' 16-year old kid.
Evidently, this was not the first time that Steve Phillips strayed from his marital vows. While working for the Mets, he was hit with a sexual harassment suit by a woman he exchanged fluids with. And bringing this possibly dangerous individual into this family's orbit was the final straw for Steve Phillips' wife Marni. Evidently, she filed for divorce in the last few weeks. Strangely, per the report, Steve Phillips actually deeded the Phillips family home to his wife a couple of months ago. Check in with the NY Post for statements from Steve, Marni and their teenager plus the letter that Brooke Hundley left for Marni to read. Read: Divorce Battle Centers Around Great Atlanta Braves Tickets
Strange days at the Worldwide Leader In Sports. Steve Phillips has been suspended from the cable sports station for one week. Phillips' former colleague, Harold Reynolds, was released from ESPN for a supposed sexual harassment case though he was later partially vindicated by being awarded an unknown (but likely large) settlement.
Maybe now you'll have something to talk about during the World Series.
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Discussion
Steve Phillips has acknowledged a relationship with a 22-year-old ESPN employee and because of that he has been cut by ESPN. ESPN decided to suspend the commentator, over Steve Phillips and his woefully inappropriate behavior and the resultant scandal, involving him, his mistress Brooke Hundley, and his wife. To go along with the fact that the man is a total sleaze, and an insult to the male gender, his wife slapped him in September with divorce papers, after his mistress stalked his family, although for the noble purpose of telling them how much of a sleaze he is. Apparently, the soon to be ex-Mrs. Phillips listened, and now Steve Phillips is going to need a new job, and a personal loan for a divorce attorney, and probably somewhere to stay.
Steve Phillips has acknowledged a relationship with a 22-year-old ESPN employee and because of that he has been cut by ESPN. ESPN decided to suspend the commentator, over Steve Phillips and his woefully inappropriate behavior and the resultant scandal, involving him, his mistress Brooke Hundley, and his wife. To go along with the fact that the man is a total sleaze, and an insult to the male gender, his wife slapped him in September with divorce papers, after his mistress stalked his family, although for the noble purpose of telling them how much of a sleaze he is. Apparently, the soon to be ex-Mrs. Phillips listened, and now Steve Phillips is going to need a new job, and a personal loan for a divorce attorney, and probably somewhere to stay.
Brooke Hundley stalked and harassed Steve Phillips’s wife and son, and caused property damage while delivering a very graphic letter about the affair to their home.
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The letter from the Other Woman is a classic. I'm not convinced she's just a crazy stalker, by the way. I suspect Phillips did say things that gave her hope for a relationship with him. She sounds very young and naive.
The kid thinks she is doing a noble thing by letting his wife know the truth so that Phillips can get out of a loveless marriage.* She believes that he is only staying for the kids. She thinks he loves her more because she is ambitious and Phillips' wife is a full-time mom, although the Phillips told his mistress that he is glad his wife is raising their kids.
Lessons for mistresses:
1) When a man complains to you about his wife, it doesn't mean he is planning to leave her.
2) Married people can have big problems and still love each other.
3) When someone is cheating they often exaggerate the problems in the marriage, especially to the other woman. Remember, if he is lying to her, he's lying to you, too.
4) If he says he doesn't want a divorce, he doesn't want a divorce. The reason he gives isn't important, the bottom line is he doesn't want to leave her for you.
5) If you talk to his wife and get her mad, he'll say you're a stalker.
6) Pushing his wife to divorce him and giving her ammunition for the divorce is not going to make him like you.
7) You are probably not the first woman he cheated with. If his wife dumps him, it's a sign that he isn't worth it. If she keeps him, well you're stuck.
I read an interesting theory in a book called "Triangles" by a couples counselor. She says that many men use an affair as an outlet to keep their marriage together. They complain about their wives and get something they're not getting from their wife. This may actually make it easier for them to stay with their wife. The mistresses do not realize that this is what the guy is doing.
*Mysteriously, she thinks the Catholic Church endorses this.
I appreciate that a 23-year old may think she's doing the right thing by telling the wife but Facebooking the teenager kid and contacting him is really weird.
I have heard the theory about the affair as a way to keep a relationship together. I believe it's why some cultures condone prostitution.
Yeah, it would take a monster diamond to equal one house in Wilton, CT.
I hadn't heard about contacting his kid. That is beyond weird.
Sorry, I was being a little sarcastic about the young woman thinking she's doing the right thing. I think she wants to break up the marriage and get the guy. She's convinced herself that she's doing it to be noble.
