In a whirlwind nine or so hours starting Monday night, ESPN’s Mina Kimes and Jeff Passan reported about a series of over 60 unanswered texts that Mets General Manager Jared Porter sent to a female reporter, including an unsolicited shot of a penis (presumably his). Tuesday morning, Porter was was fired.
This is not a Mets site, so the big questions that I have today are not about what happens next for their front office. No, the questions that I have are about what happens next for the culture that led Porter to think that the answer to receiving no response to all his texts was to keep sending them.