ESPN FIRES Steve Phillips!!!

#1 Guest_Chicano_*

Posted October 25, 2009 - 09:09 PM

http://www.tmz.com/2009/10/25/steve-phillips-fired-by-espn-brooke-hundley-analyst-mets-general-manager/

David Letterman he is not -- only a few days after news broke of ESPN analyst Steve Phillips' affair with a 22-year-old production assistant, he's out of a job.

An ESPN spokesperson said Phillips' ability to be an effective analyst was "significantly and irreparably damaged" -- so the sports network decided to give him the old heave-ho.
FULL ARTICLE inside link.

That's too bad. I thought this guy did a pretty good job. I enjoyed his analysis.

#2 popo

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Posted October 25, 2009 - 09:10 PM

This is the second scandal for baseball tonight, Harold Reynolds was a great analyst who got fired in 2006 just for a hug, he later sued ESPN.

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Posted October 25, 2009 - 09:12 PM

Yeah I remember that guy. I thought he was pretty cool as well. Was upset when ESPN canned his arse.

Also miss Stephen A Smith cuz although he was annoying for some at times, I always respected and admired that he'd say whatever he felt like saying and wasn't afraid to go the non politically correct route.

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Posted October 25, 2009 - 09:19 PM

Yeah I remember that guy. I thought he was pretty cool as well. Was upset when ESPN canned his arse.

Also miss Stephen A Smith cuz although he was annoying for some at times, I always respected and admired that he'd say whatever he felt like saying and wasn't afraid to go the non politically correct route.

Smith didn't get fired did he?

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#5 Guest_Chicano_*

Posted October 25, 2009 - 09:31 PM

Supposedly he didn't. He was just let go in a different way because they weren't gonna' give him a raise or they were gonna' pay him less and give him a crappier contract, basically a slap in the face.

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Posted November 01, 2009 - 05:14 PM

Who?

And I miss SAS; I respected him more than almost everyone at ESPN

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Posted November 01, 2009 - 05:58 PM

yea SAS was tight he called Kwame a bonified Scrub when we 1st got Pau he said something like LA should just throw a Parade for giving rid of Kwame Brown!

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Posted November 05, 2009 - 08:43 PM

I wonder where smith is now

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Posted November 30, 2009 - 06:50 PM

i believe SAS works for the newspaper in Philly as a columnist...

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Posted December 09, 2009 - 10:57 PM

i believe your right
i seen him on some late night sports show on cbs talking about iverson lol