Jared Porter acknowledged he sent an inappropriate text message to a reporter while he was a Chicago Cubs executive in 2016, which led to the New York Mets firing him as general manager in 2021 after just 38 days. Porter made his first public comments on his firing during an episode of the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast released Friday.
FILE - This screen grab from a Zoom call shows new New York Mets general manager Jared Porter Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. . Jared Porter acknowledged he sent an inappropriate text message to a reporter while he was a Chicago Cubs executive in 2016, which led to the New York Mets firing him as general manager in 2021 after just 38 days., about nine hours after an ESPN report detailing that he sent sexually explicit, uninvited text messages and images to a female reporter.
“Obviously, I talked with my wife, my family, you know, and my co-workers at the time at the Mets about the situation but, yeah, it was obviously a really tough moment but, you know, I — like I said, like being accountable, like I put myself in that situation. You know, I made the decision to send the text message that I sent and I certainly shouldn’t have done it.
Porter said he received a text message from Diamondbacks managing general partner Ken Kendrick that led him to the head of the team’s employee assistance program. That person directed Porter to The Meadows, a center in Arizona for treatment of addiction and emotional trauma. Porter spent about a week there.
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