ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips, the former NY Met GM, was fired less than a week after admitting to having an affair with 22-year-old production assistant Brooke Hundley and has entered a treatment facility to address his problems. Ms. Hundley has also been terminated by ESPN, continuing a practice by the network to reprimand its employees for inappropriate behaviors or ill-timed comments. The growing list includes suspended anchors Scott Van Pelt (who criticized MLB commissioner Bud Selig's $18.5 million compensation) and Dana Jacobson (who made inappropriate comments about Notre Dame during a roast for ESPN radio co-hosts Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic), along with broadcaster Bob Griese (who made an on-air, racist joke about Columbian NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya during Saturday's Ohio State-Minnesota football game). Suddenly, being in the booth/studio has become just as interesting, and only slightly less dangerous -- but not by much, than playing on the field.
And ESPN fired Rush Limbaugh for criticizing the media's desire to promote Donovan McNabb whose quarterback rating at the time was the same as Denver's Brian Griese - abysmal.
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