Posted by Travis Rodgers on Feb 11, 2010

Steve Phillips, Bad Husband, Worse GM #MLB

I make good decisions, on and off the field.

Steve Phillips, former New York Mets GM, can’t catch a break. While he is on one of the country’s most popular morning shows, the Today show, confessing his sex addiction and trying to make himself cry, a pesky reporter is digging up the details of the deal he gave Bobby Bonilla during his tenure with the team.

Instead of picking up Bonilla’s $5.9 million salary for the 2000 season, Philips instead agreed to pay Bonilla approximately $1.2 million every year from 2011 to 2035. That would be nearly $30 million total, all for just going away.

Phillips' decision to throw away his career, his reputation, and quite possibly his marriage for Brooke Hundley is making a lot more sense than it did just a few days ago. Steve Philips is not that smart. What other explanation could there be?

Do you have any 8's?

If you are crazy/stupid enough to give Bobby Bonilla $30 million just to get the hell out of town, then you are certainly stupid/crazy enough to risk everything for a less than beautiful, portly production assistant at ESPN. I’m just sayin’. Bad judgment is bad judgment.

Giving Bobby Bonilla, whose most impressive contribution to the Mets was playing cards in the clubhouse while the team was getting eliminated in the NLCS, $30 million instead of $5 million makes Brooke Hundley look like Megan Fox. Maybe he could have skimmed some of that $30 million and kicked a piece of it down to Hundley to keep her quiet. I am more offended by the Bonilla deal than I am him rolling with Brooke.

A bad decision is a bad decision, whether it is in baseball or in the bedroom.

But hey, at least his goatee is neatly trimmed. That’s something.