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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Mets had NO CHOICE but to FIRE GM Jared Porter (1/19)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘You’re fired’ as in see ya as in you’re terminated as in you can’t work here as in Jared Porter has been fired as the New York Mets General Manager for sending an unsolicited penis photo to a female reporter back in 2016. That wasn’t all he did. He also sent here 62 unanswered text messages over the course of a few months. ESPN ran a story, the Mets released a statement and the next morning owner Steve Cohen announces the firing. Porter was hired as the new GM on December 13, 2020. (21:15)Tennessee fires Jeremy Pruitt. What does it mean to be fired by cause? The school also fired 10 other people in the football program. The Athletic Director resigned, but the school said it had nothing to do with the Pruitt scandal! (37:36) Review - One Night in Miami. (41:00) Inauguration Day is tomorrow. Will a change happen? #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nothing personal word of the day. Good morning. It is Tuesday, January 19, 2021. And the New

0:22.8

York Mets have stepped in it again. It was breaking news last night. A story came out

0:29.1

that new match GM hired on December 13, 2020. His name is Jared Porter had engaged in unwanted

0:39.7

advances via text and had sent a picture of his penis to a reporter who worked for MLB or was an

0:50.4

MLB reporter internationally. 62 unanswered texts and she kept them all. She had told the

1:00.4

Chicago Cubs because this is back in 2016, maybe when he worked for the Cubs. She had told

1:06.4

someone with the Cubs it had never gone anywhere. He then moved to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

1:14.0

Never came up. Never went anywhere. Jared Porter was rising through the ranks of baseball.

1:20.1

Very sought after in the Theo tree. The Mets could not make a higher of a present baseball

1:26.4

operations. They passed on Michael Hill for reasons that escaped me and many people within

1:31.6

the game. They decided to go with Jared Porter from the Diamondbacks, lauded as a great

1:39.9

higher, a man of great integrity, a great baseball mind, detailed, smart, and will help lead the

1:50.7

Mets under new owners, new owners Steve Cone. Background of Steve Cone we've discussed is very

1:58.4

simple. He was not unanimously approved to become owner, which is something that most

2:03.6

owners are when the vote comes. The vote is generally 30 to zero. There was a faction of

2:08.0

owners who did not want him to buy the Mets even at that great price because Steve Cone

2:13.9

in his business on Wall Street, his hedge fund has been littered with complaints, violations,

2:23.6

sanctions, censures, fines, sexual harassment, sexual discrimination. Too many to mention.

2:37.6

Steve Cone buys the Mets. He's the savior as compared to the will pond family. Every new

2:43.5

owner comes in as a savior, assuming they're taking over for a group that's not liked

2:48.6

and every group at the end of the day is not liked. Steve Cone goes to Twitter, builds

2:54.6

a following is Dracula on Twitter, asking for suggestions, talking about on Christmas

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