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ESPN to Steve Phillips: You're Out!

Network fires philandering baseball analyst

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(Newser) – Less than a week after the revelation of his affair with a production assistant, ESPN has fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. "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 network said in a statement. Phillips, 46 and married, had been on leave since Wednesday, shortly after his dalliance with 22-year-old Brooke Hundley became public knowledge.

Brooke Hundley and Steve Phillips
Brooke Hundley and Steve Phillips
ESPN has fired Steve Phillips, who admitted to an affair with an assistant at the cable network.
ESPN has fired Steve Phillips, who admitted to an affair with an assistant at the cable network.   (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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blusky09
Oct 25, 09 9:59 PM CDT
If i was going to have an affair and lose my job, reputation and family, I'd at least have it with someone that didn't look like a man. Reply
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Deebles
Oct 25, 09 10:31 PM CDT
How screwed am I? Care less about the sex, but Blusky's use of the indicative was--requires were. If I were. If means not. I was means I did or will or am. It is a truthful statement. Since you have no plan to screw a twenty year old, the mood of the verb changes from plain indicative to subjunctive--If I were. There are only three moods for verbs, Indicative for everything that is true, subjunctive for the not true and imperative for the command. And, I'm not being a bitch, but I watched 20/20 last night on the SuperFreakonomic thing and they said that the worst part of women going to law and medical school was that not enough bright women stayed in teaching. My grammar teacher had a PHd from Harvard. Just passing it forward. And, you get huge points for putting the comma between the two clauses since you put the subordinate one first--turn your sentence around and you don't need that comma. It makes sense that if you put the least important thing first, that a comma has to hold the clauses together. If, you always put the main,stand alone clause, first you don't need one.
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DarkFrancis
Oct 25, 09 11:02 PM CDT
Oh Deebs...I'm anal about certain bit and pieces too, but if I were you I'd at least try to clip it back to one line of reproach (or reproachfulness, to use US English).
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JoeQ
Oct 25, 09 11:11 PM CDT
If'n anybody asks me where's my grammar, I tell 'em she died a while back.
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DickyJoe
Oct 26, 09 9:29 AM CDT
Thank you, Deebles!!! But I agree with blusky
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