Until aggrieved viewers can extract damages from ESPN for being subjected to Phillips’s “analysis”, we can all be assured that sleeping with a subordinate employee will always lead to a quicker firing than being a moron in front of the microphone.

Changing the name of the tribute band from “Steve Phillips” to “Portly Mistress” is a big mistake.

As a Mets fan myself I am pretty much taking the “this World Series isn’t happening” approach.  Bring on football and movies.

Phillips’ gal pal no longer with network
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/phillips_gal_pal_no_longer_with_GIBB0ARUgTYxBI2LHVuciL

“Brooke Hundley is no longer working here,” said ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz. He confirmed that the firing of the 22-year-old production assistant was effective today.”

Question for fellow THT Shyster readers. Should I respond to the comment on the Astros post at NBC, which alleges the Astros cheat by blowing the AC in when the visitors are batting, and offers “proof” by guessing Pujols homerun would have gone 500 feet if the roof had been open? Or should I let it go?

fair enough

Aarcraft: The question is whether the post is so self-evidently discrediting that it isn’t necessary or productive to bother. I’d be tempted, because these kinds of assumptions are insidious, but I waste way too much time in pointless arguments too. Craig is right.

Craig, you left one thing out in your serious McGwire post, and ironically, it was part of a cost-benefit analysis McGwire and his lawyer must have engaged in - Congress, or more specifically, Congress’s ego.  I think we can all agree that the steroids hearings weren’t much more than a dick-measuring exercise for certain denizens of Capitol Hill.  The players were denied immunity for those hearings.  Had McGwire gotten up and explained that the costs (when he was playing, mostly personal health) were far outweighed by the benefits, Congress might have felt the urge to make an example of those who break federal laws because they thought the rewards outweighed the risks.*  Given that, I don’t think it’s entirely fair to be disappointed he didn’t come clean.  If Congress really wanted answers, immunity would have been given.  McGwire’s display four and a half years ago wasn’t to protect his reputation, but his freedom.

*Assuming, of course, the substance McGwire used was indeed illegal