Steve Phillips, What Were You Thinking?

Dude. Seriously, what were you thinking?

I'd like to slap Steve Phillips right now. I won't because a) he's in seclusion getting "treatment", b) it's assault, and c) I have to go to work in a few minutes, but I digress.

This is what you threw away for career for? Get your eyes checked when you get out of treatment, brother.

Phillips was fired from sports cable giant/conglomerate/monopoly ESPN last week for having a sexual affair with Brooke Hundley (pictured; tip of the cap to New York Daily News), who has also since been fired. A few weeks ago Marni Phillips, the soon-to-be former wife of Phillips, filed for divorce.

Now I'm not advocating infidelity by any means, but I have to say this much: If you're going to throw it all away, make it a major league mistake, not the Toledo Mud Hens of mistresses. If I were the Steinbrenners, I'd be pissed Hundley's pictured wearing a Yankee hat. You'd never see Derek Jeter, a Michigan native like Phillips, throw it all away for someone like this. If anything, the minute Jeter smells a rat, he reportedly exterminates (example: Mariah Carey). If this wasn't bad enough, Phillips seemingly picked the loosest cannon he could find, and I make no apologies for that pun. It's really bad to cheat on your wife; it's worse to pick a fling who can't handle the sly. Stalking the wife and son? I hope Phillips picks rehab facilities better than he picks his adulteresses.

But more than anything else, like everyone else in media not named Mitch Albom, Oprah Winfrey or Bob Costas trying to land the next big assignment, Phillips had a gig that most media-ites would consider straight gravy. Getting paid to talk about professional baseball at a network that dedicates more airtime to the game than everyone this side of MLB Network -- how much better can it get? And this wasn't the first time Phillips let the little head speak for the big head. When he was general manager of New York's Amazin' Mets, he got caught with his pants down and it cost him that job, too. 

In the future, please Steve, leave the affairs to Mr. Met and Linda Cohn. 

Regards...

~T.C. Cameron's 2nd title, Metro Detroit's High School Basketball Rivalries, was released yesterday from Arcadia Publishing!

Comments

[Micael]

He was just trying to keep it manstyle

[Mike]

When I tracked her picture down, I was shocked, to say the least. You would think the dude would have learned after he had the affair while running the Mets.
How humiliated must his wife be. Oh yeah, I forgot, it's an illness he has.
He can go to the MLB Network with Harold Reynolds (the other fired ESPN guy) when he is "cured".

[The Write Referee]

I agree with that wholeheartedly! Who you like is who you like, but it seems that the thrill of the chase is the culprit here, and that's a piss poor reason to throw your marriage with kids -- an issue near and dear to my heart -- and a career down the tubes for, especially one that publicizes it for her advantage and the kids disadvantage.

[Statman24]

I get that, and I suspect she was ultimately cast aside once he realized she was this "Tin Cup of mistresses, a bottomless, psycho throwaway".

But, I suspect (and I'm sure you'd agree) that side of her was not seen by him when he got with her initially. I'll give him that much.

So the only reason folks are demonizing him (beyond the affair) is based on his taste in women. To that, I say, to each their own.

[The Write Referee]

Statman:

Not saying that in the least. I'm simply saying if you're going to throw it all away, at least do it with someone -- at the very least -- who's worthy of the cause. This chick, if what has been reported is ultimately true, has turned into the Tin Cup of mistresses, a bottomless, psycho throwaway.

That's what you're going to crash your own career and marriage over? Yikes.

If he were single, well, perhaps no one would care, but when you wreck your career and family over someone this unstable, you get clowned.

[Statman24]

Come on T.C my good friend. You're not pushing that old adage... "if you're going to cheat (not that I condone it), make sure you get a hot chick and not a dog" insinuation, are you? I doubt he knew she would turn into a freak.

Let's say Steve P. was single, would you rip him for his choice of a mate?

I'm just saying!

Your good friend!!