Steve Phillips' sexcapades are more interesting than his baseball analysis

October 21, 7:36 PMSports ExaminerPaula Duffy

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Steve Phillips (espn.com file photo

If you haven't read the news about ESPN baseball analyst, Steve Phillips' public disgrace, get ready for more graphic details than you'd ever expect.

Brought to you by the friendly folks at the New York Post, care of the police blotter in the town in which Phillips resides, it reads like a Harlequin romance.

Married with four children, Phillips picked the wrong woman with whom to have an affair. Even at the tender age of 22 she knows what she wants and isn't afraid to blow up her lover's life to get it. Of course, the happy ending doesn't occur once you do something like she just did.

Brooke Hundley, a production assistant at ESPN had a few nights of sex with Phillips in hotel rooms as he traveled on the road. But when Phillips tried to end the affair, her fury manifested itself in a tell-all letter to Phillips' wife, Marni which I guess she wanted to deliver in person.

Marni called the cops (TMZ.com has the 911 call on tape) when she saw Hundley's car in her driveway. She observed it hit some object in the driveway as Hundley was making an apparent quick getaway after leaving the letter on Phillips front door.

And that letter is now posted on line for us all to see.  In it, she attempts to prove to Mrs. Phillips that she really has been intimate with her husband by identifying places on his body that have birth marks.

His crotch and penis are mentioned in the letter and frankly I'll never be able to watch him on television again now that I know where he has those marks. Prior to this his effectiveness as a baseball analyst was questionable at best. Now, he's just a punch line. One that I doubt David Letterman will deliver.

This was the second time Phillips has had a work place affair. In 1998, when he was general manager of the New York Mets he was sued for sexual harassment by a female employee. The case was settled out of court.

The New York Post has obtained a copy of Marni Phillips' divorce petition which is dated only a few weeks after the police incident.

ESPN issued a statement today to go along with that of Phillips himself in which it said it was well aware of the situation and had dealt with it under the company's disciplinary policy. Phillips asked for and was granted what is being called an extended leave of absence. You think?

The story is messy and detailed. Feel free to dive right in. I already know more than I ever thought I'd have to.

New York Post has Phillips' and his wife's statements to the police as well details on how this became a police matter, here

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Dexter Rodgers, African American Sports Examiner wants to know if Phillips will be fired like Harold Reynolds, here