Jared Porter: Fired
It has been a very long time since I posted here. I had been avoiding posting because there has been relatively little to talk about over the last few years. Sure the Mets have had their successes. However the bad has far outweighed the good since my last post.
But with a string of positive events over the last few months, I have been feeling more optimistic. The sale of the Mets to Steve Cohen was a big step. Like many Mets fans, I had soured on the Wilpons several years ago. Even before their investments with Bernie Madoff came to light I had grown tired of them (despite the 2015 World Series appearance).
The next step was the hiring of Jared Porter as General Manager. Porter had worked his way through the baseball front office ranks and had become a highly touted general manager candidate. He brought with him a clear understanding of how the job of general manager has changed over the years and was viewed as one of the best of the new breed.
Then the Mets acquired Francisco Lindor in a blockbuster deal with the Cleveland Indians (I should probably stop calling them that now since they are abandoning that name). If there is one good thing that happened late in the Wilpon ownership era it’s that there are several good, young talents in the organization (forgetting for a moment the trade that sent Jarred Kelenic to Seattle). Adding a player like Lindor to the mix not only ups the talent ante but shows that new ownership will be aggressive. This was the type of move that fans needed to see in order for them to really feel good about this new era in their favorite team.
Just as I was starting to prepare a post on the current feel good situation, a situation that had me looking forward to the season a bit more optimistically, I got an alert on my phone telling me that new general manager Jared Porter, on the job for nary a month, has been fired for sexual harassment. Obviously, I support the swift action taken by ownership in firing an employee who was involved in such an activity and this is something that is bigger than baseball. But from a fan perspective, this really took the wind out of my sails and has me wondering: will things ever really get better for the Mets?
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