The Jared Porter era in Queens is already over, and there’s no one to blame but him.
According to an ESPN story from Jeff Passan and Mina Kimes, the now-former New York Mets general manager sent a significant number of unwanted and explicit text messages to a foreign female reporter in 2016, including an erotic image of himself.
The story went live on Monday night, and by Tuesday morning, Porter was without a job. New team owner Steve Cohen revealed via Twitter that the organization had terminated him, citing that there “should be zero tolerance for this type of behavior.