The Mets' GM Firing
The Lead
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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday morning, the New York Mets fired GM Jared Porter, just hours after ESPN reported that he had sent inappropriate and graphic text messages to a woman reporter back in 2016, when he was the director of professional scouting for the Chicago Cubs. Brittany Ghiroli, a national baseball writer for The Athletic, joins us to explain what exactly happened between Porter and the foreign reporter, how the incident is impacting the Mets, and who might have known about Porter’s behavior before he was hired.
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| 0:27.4 | Lisa heads up that this episode contains descriptions of graphic content that some listeners might |
| 0:32.0 | find disturbing. |
| 0:39.5 | On Tuesday morning, the New York Mets swiftly fired their new General Manager, Jared Porter. |
| 0:46.2 | Mets General Manager, Jared Porter, caught sending unsolicited, explicit texts and photos |
| 0:51.3 | to a female reporter in 2016, according to ESPN. |
| 0:55.0 | Porter has only been in the Mets GM since December 13th, but this morning he is facing a scandal |
| 1:01.4 | that is clearly a career ending event. |
| 1:05.6 | Today, the Athletics Brittany Giroly on what exactly happened between Porter and the |
| 1:09.7 | woman journalist, how the incident is impacting the Mets, and who might have known about Porter's |
| 1:15.4 | behavior. |
| 1:16.4 | I think there was definitely this undercurrent of people knowing in the game what he truly |
| 1:21.3 | was. |
| 1:22.6 | But there was also the important people, the right people, pushing it along and sweeping |
| 1:27.8 | it under the rug, then allowing this integrity, courageous storyline to continue to flourish. |
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