You can head over here and read the long version of the affair between then-ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips and then-ESPN production assistant Brooke Hundley. Or you can get a pretty good idea of their very brief romance by reading their text messages. As the full story points out, this was a mostly sexless sex scandal, involving some masturbation, a little groping, and a parking-lot blow job. It would nevertheless have far-reaching effects on ESPN.
These texts were included in the case file in Hundley's suit against ESPN, portions of which can be found at the bottom of the page. In her deposition, Hundley said that she transcribed these texts. Why she included only Phillips’s texts for the first half of this transcript and included only her own texts in the second half isn’t made clear. In her transcription, a couple of texts were placed out of order. We've put them in chronological order. Down below, you can also find all the other docs we picked up from the Stamford courthouse.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Friday, July 31 5:50 PMI need ur lips on me. Ur tongue licking me
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Friday, July 31 5:54 PMBring two towels. I am expecting a big gush or two or three
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Friday, July 31 6:25 PMOn my way now. Be there in two min
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Friday, July 31 7:23 PMThanks. Ur good
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Friday, July 31 7:25 PMU r special. Have a good weekend. I will text when I can.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 12:09 PMSounds great. I am ok. Dealing with guilt issues. How’s ur weekend?
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 12:25 PMNobody touched u the right way on ur dates.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 12:34 PMOn treadmill now. Chat later. Be good. Tell those guys I will hold a class and teach them. By the way. Good job on me Friday.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 12:37 PMHa. Bummer for him
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 12:46 PMThreesome?
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 12:50 PMGreat idea. I want u naked
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 12:57 PMI want to feel ur nipples on my chest
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 12:57 PMYes really really good. Girls were into it with each other too. Great time
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 1:16 PMHome on mon and tues. In by 4pm wed
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 1:42 PMYes it is. Family with me in ny and boston next week.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 2:02 PMWe will see. Just bear with me. I am dealing with guilt issues.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 2:37 PMI was a ball player. Hanging out with one girl and she had a friend.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 2:54 PMU made me explode. Good chemistry for sure
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 4:37 PMHa. Always like to see a nice dress so I can picture touching u. Sorry I dozed off now rushing to ballpark.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 6:24 PMThanks Sexy
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 2 10:21 PMHa. Bad girl
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Monday, August 3 [no time listed]Almost home. See u wed.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 3:40 PMI am here.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 4:16 PMWhere should i meet u
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 4:24 PMI have meeting at 4:30. I have SC taping at 540. Maybe on way to that?
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 4:34 PMCan meet u by bridge from build 3 to2
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 5:31 PMOn way
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 5:35 PMR u kidding me with that dress. Wow
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 5:38 PMI will try. Problem is I will have family waiting up or me tonight.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 5:43 PMLet me just see how things are at home. We can prob do 10 min.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 5:43 PMI will text when I am on way back
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 5:54 PMOn way 2 min
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 5:55 PMHa 1230ish
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 5:57 PMSame spot
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 9:47 PMDo me a favor. No Makeup and no perfume. I can’t go home with any sign of u on me. Deal?
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 10:52 PMI just got a really bad call frm my wife that some woman called her about me screwing someone in Bristol. I am fucked
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 10:57 PMWhat’s going on. Fuck.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 5 11:00 PMI can’t meet tonight. I have to go now. I will be in touch
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Thursday, August 6 12:17 AMI can’t text now. She is going to check. Bad. Really bad
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Saturday, August 8 [no time listed]When?
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Monday, August 10 11:20 AMThanks for note
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Monday, August 10 6:44 PMWait wait wait. I have told her which means that if I get texts I have no chance of surviving. I don’t mean to be mean or cold. I am just scared and desp
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Monday, August 10 6:44 PMErate. I am sorry. Please understand. My life is crumbling.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 12 1:16 PMGh. Right?
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 12 2:08 PMWe will figure something out. I am on a early mon flight into la and a red eye after the game.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 12 2:09 PMDo me a favor and erase ur texts so whomever is snooping doesn’t read these. Someon seems like they are out to get u and me both for some reason.
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Wednesday, August 12 2:53 PMI was juust wondering which Monday u were in la as u were in la as we r there two weeks I a row. Then I reread ur text and saw it was a week from this Monday.
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 2009 10:43 AMHey hot stuff how’s ur week going?
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 10:43 AMHey I had to know 4 next week ☺
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 11:49 AMTo church thought u were at work
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 12:27 PMI’m visiting my brother and a show I used to work on when I lived there
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 1:53 PMI guess I will return the outfit wish u hadn’t made me believe I was special or anything other than a cheap lay
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 1:55 PMMaybe I should pay a vist to ur wife show her all ur texts and tell her what an asshole she married. Ur family isn’t the only person u hurt in this
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 16 1:56 PMJust tried to call u
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 1:59 PMIm sure she would love to read the one about u want your tongue inside me
To: Brooke Hundley
From: Steve Phillips
Sunday, August 16 2:01 PMWill you talk to me please
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 2:05 PMNo
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 2:12 PMYeah well im sure she doesn’t know all the details about u and i. that right now i wouldn’t mind sharing with her
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 2:20 PMU already did ur damage but u better believe your wife and I will have a chat about all this. I’m not some toy u use til u get caught then try to dispose of
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 3:00 PMIm sorry I liked making u happy. But I can’t keep this to myself any longer
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 3:29 PMLet me know when u have called her. Do it before the game. I’m a chance to warn her before I call. It’s the best I can do.
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 4:39 PMWhy are u acting like my texts are hard to understand. Call her and tell her anything u haven’t been honest about u owe it to her
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Sunday, August 16 11:10 PMSorry but someone had to tell the truth not just half the story
To: Steve Phillips
From: Brooke Hundley
Monday, August 17 4:30 PMWhy won’t u talk to me and let me explain. I listened to u yesterday even though I didn’t want to talk.
Also: The Mostly Sexless Sex Scandal That Shook ESPN