All I want to know is why he's such a wreck.

Please tell me so I'll know what makes God his flag guilty.

Hello and welcome to episode 1644 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

Fangras presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lemberg of the

ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fangras. Hello Meg. Hello. So we are going to get to

some transactions and hot stove stuff later in the episode, but we want to

begin with the big news in baseball as we record this on Tuesday, which is the

firing of Metz GM Jared Porter and the scandal surrounding him that

necessitated that firing. So all of this came out really on Monday night, quickly

developed into Tuesday and is still sort of developing as we speak, but

essentially there was a report by ESPN's Mena Kimes and Jeff Passon fairly

late on Monday night that revealed that Jared Porter in 2016 when he was with

the Cubs harassed a female reporter who was working as a foreign correspondent

covering baseball and center of string of 60 plus text messages, which included

unsolicited, glued images up to and including a picture of a penis, presumably

his, although he said it wasn't, not that it makes any difference. This was

something that came to ESPN's attention back in 2017. At the time, the woman

did not want to go ahead with the story and that wasn't published now. It was,

it came to light. The woman was willing to cooperate with the reporters and tell

her story. Porter was fairly swiftly dismissed by the Metz early on Tuesday

morning. Steve Cohen tweeted that he had been let go. And then throughout the

day, there were some further developments and some comments by Metz

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