Zack Scott Acquitted: The Full Story | Sal Licata
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Sal Licata sits down with former Mets acting general manager Zack Scott to discuss the true story behind his highly publicized 2021 arrest and subsequent termination. Scott, who was recently exonerated of all charges, shares his account of the event, explaining that he was tired, not intoxicated, and that video evidence presented in court confirmed his innocence. He reveals that despite being cleared and even being asked to return to his role, the Mets still fired him without a clear explanation, a decision he believes was influenced by the team's "zero tolerance" climate at the time.
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| 0:34.4 | Obviously we heard about, you know, why you were let go from the Mets. |
| 0:39.5 | Can you, because I've heard your story off the air, which didn't match what I was listening to or reading about publicly. |
| 0:41.1 | You want to share your story about what happened and why you're no longer with the Mets |
| 0:44.0 | as a general manager? |
| 0:45.5 | Sure. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, you know, obviously what was reported publicly was that I was arrested for DWI late |
| 0:50.9 | in the morning. |
| 0:52.5 | And, you know, what happened was I put myself in the bad, in bad |
| 0:57.5 | circumstances, the wrong place at the wrong time. Um, I was not driving while intoxicated. So it was |
| 1:03.2 | good to be acquitted of that. Um, but I was driving tired, you know, going out for late. I'm, |
| 1:08.8 | first of all, I'm, I still don't go to bed to like one or two in the morning now. Um, so going out for, um, kind of late night food, which is really my advice is overeating. Like Taco Bell? Where were we at? No, well, it was, no, it was like a more of a local place in the white plains. But, um, so, you know, was, was was trying to figure out i was new to the area |
| 1:29.7 | trying to figure out i get back and was pulled over on the side road the report was you know i was |
| 1:35.1 | passed out at the wheel and you know the easy part of it was going to trial you know they wouldn't |
| 1:42.7 | i would have pled down just to get it over with. |
| 1:45.6 | So it would be less of a distraction for the Mets. |
| 1:47.9 | We can kind of move on. |
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