Steve Phillips News Affects MLB 2K10

by pastapadre
Posted October 26th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

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2K Sports may be scrambling after the recent news of Steve Phillips firing from ESPN and sex scandal. Phillips has admitted to an affair with a co-worker that ended up resulting in what has been described as “fatal attraction-like” behavior by the woman towards Phillips’ wife and family. He has since entered a treatment facility that deals with sex addiction.

From a public relations standpoint 2K cannot feature Phillips in the game. Phillips was one half of the commentary team in MLB 2K9 and presumably would be in that same role in 2K10. The commentary was one of the few positives that game had to offer and now could be in big jeopardy.

It is nearly November and at this point most of what will be in the final version of the game has been locked in. It is unknown if the commentary could be re-done at this point. If it is it certainly would not be up to the level of quality that was seen with 2K9 and would have potentially been in 2K10 with another year to add to the library.

There are no indications as to anything having to do with MLB 2K10 yet and it seems unlikely that 2K will make a statement on the issue anytime soon. The game will release the first week of March. Generally little to no news is made on the game before the new year outside of a possible cover athlete announcement.

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Ray

It doesnt matter the MLB 2K series blows im sure nobody will buy this game anyway

@DjNunez09

2k isnt ALL that bad , sure the show is way better but what about 360 users. they HAVE to buy it.

Sidewinder

"He has since entered a treatment facility that deals with sex addiction."

Have you seen this woman? I don't really know how you can cure an addiction like that.

philly

was she ugly or somethin? where's photos?

pastapadre

http://www.cnpanyu.com/uploadfile/2009/1022/20091...

worstkrusty

is that a man?

ferris

omg when i read the thing on espn.com and it said some 22 yr old girl, i was expecting her to be hot, or at least look like a women. i was picturing the situation to be kind of like the one that happened in the past season of Entourage

Sidewinder

Here's my favorite:

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/espn_s...

philly

oh dang... I just saw photos. WTF is he doin cheatin on his wife with HER!?

sigh

Is it really that hard to put 1+1 together? Because you seem to have done so and come up with Q. If he's ADDICTED to sex then it has nothing to do with being attracted to her. THATS THE DEFINITION OF ADDICTION

christ

HaywoodJabowme

It's obviously an out of control, sick addiction is he's hitting that.
Steve, man, what the hell were you thinking? Throwing it all away for that? You must be a sick, sick man.

GT=kc10785

nobody gives a f**k keep him in the game and make the commentary realistic as possible

E-man

The MLB 2K series consistently has made terrible baseball games since moving to the 360. If they have to spend an extra month fixing the audio, imagine how bad 2K10's gameplay will be.

uhh...

Riiiiight. Because it's not like the place has employees who specialize in particular activities. Clearly the guy who tracks the audio will also be coding the engine, negotiating with the cover athlete and overseeing the manufacturing plant. Speaking of which, I hear Madden sucked again this year because Ian was too busy drawing the cover art to deal with gameplay issues.

Dumbass.

E-man

Gameplay includes audio and how it syncs with the game.

Dumbass.

@DaveDQ

Even if 2K says "The heck with it, we don't have time to change it", what will the MLB have them to do? ESPN fired him for it. I wonder if the MLB can step in and require them to tak Phillips out.

This is a company though that had no reservations about contracting the controversial OJ Simpson for a football game that didn't really depend on his likeness.

banger

Who cares. He banged some slut from the office, I mean who hasn't?

seph

Well the controversy is more about ESPN letting him go because of it. But how much you want to bet this wouldn't be nearly as big a deal if the woman was a knockout? It's kinda like that south park episode about the teacher sleeping with Ike and nobody caring because she's attractive. "Oooooo, nice!"

pastapadre

I imagine the MLB wouldn't want their league represented by Phillips. They could tell 2K that he has to be out. Its going to be bad press for both of them if he remains in the game.

The OJ thing was done on purpose to get attention for the game with the controversy. There is nothing good about this situation that they would want to exploit it for publicity.

uhh...

They *might* be able to, they might not. It depends on the language in the contract. You're really doing an exceptional job of talking out your rear end in this thread Padre.

smokez4dayz

Nice try pasta. Steve Phillips doesn't have to with ESPN to still work with 2K. Kobe is on the cover of 2k10 and he had a sex charge. This is self admitting. He will go away and comeback with the MLB network...making him more authentic in , mlb2k10

uhh...

Sounds like pasta ought to stick to repeating what EA says rather than trying to do any analysis of his own. If this thread is any indication he can't reason his way out of a wet paper bag. Embarrassing.

Karim24

This has no affect on the game. Because the game will most certainly follow the trend of it over the past few year of the game getting worse. 2k9 was the worst excuse for a baseball game i have ever seen. I found 2k6 threw it in there and it was by far a better game. We can only pray that they lose their rights soon.

pastapadre

Yeah 2K6 was actually decent, once they patched it so that you could get past the 3rd inning anyway :)

8-]

JOE BUCK FOR THE WIN!

Sidewinder

I doubt he'd have time with his football schedule, but it wouldn't be bad if he did.

uhh...

"If it is it certainly would not be up to the level of quality that was seen with 2K9 and would have potentially been in 2K10 with another year to add to the library."

BS. There aren't that many lines, whoever they bring in could re-do Phillips' lines over a weekend. Besides that, I'm assuming Phillips wasn't writing the script for any new commentary himself so I really have no idea what you're talking about Padre. Get a clue.

uhh...

Also apparently there's a marketing upside to murder/armed robbery (which incident are we referring to?) that just isn't there in consensual sex between adults.

Stay classy bro.

OOO___OOO

lol there are mlb 2k fanboys that exist that is most suprising out of this. something tells me theyd be talking different if it was cris collinsworth that did this

Yancy

Steve Phillips is a disgraceful person and 2K has to take him out of the game. Or else theyll have a adultering unemployed sexaholic as commentator and that wont go over well.

@Pharrell1

time for MVP baseball to take affect.

timeshift

Suck it fanboy. MVP died a long time ago. I am sure it would be crap right now just like Live, Madden NHL. EA knows how to wreck a great game over time.

okafor43

this game is horrific and even babe ruth himself couldnt save it, so im sure phillips wont do the same either,,next!!

kzgreg

yeah, who cares, they can have WILSON Phillips doing the commentary and no one would notice. MLB The Show is where it's at, sorry XBOX'ers.

ToM

Wow too bad to take him out of the game.I think it would be cool to have him in the booth with his new partner of the week.It could come up and give you trivia for what women he has this week.If you guess right your team gets a power up.What a missed option this is.2k think of the possibilities I may then play this game.

Chris

They should hire Harold Reynolds to do commentary with Steve Phillips and get rid of Gary Thorne. THat would be a great duo of sexual harrasers

Bill

DAMN SHE FINNNNEEEEE!!!!

bhurst99

Would it surprise anyone if they simply left his commentary in the game?

mikesa_tx

It's all about THE SHOW. 2k Sports sucks at baseball games.

Sever82

Wow Pasta, I mean I've played MLB The Show since i got a PS3 but man you really do hate 2ksports dont you and you definitely are a ea fanboy. I mean just wow, "they're scrambling" are you serious, Phillips doesn't make MLB 2k baseball, commentary doesn't make the game because you can always replace commentary. I find it funny how you speak positively about the NBA Live patch but yet have a negative tone about the NBA 2K patch. Dude if you're going to have a blog that supposedly unbiased and just trying to bring news to gamers, be fair and stop trying to bash one company over the other.

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