It’s very easy to be #lolMets about a lot of things that happen to that club in Queens. Luis Castillo dropped the ball, Carlos Beltran was as manager hired in the midst of a sign-stealing scandal, etc. It would have been very easy to label the Jared Porter story as the same kind of thing — the Mets do weird things, now they hired a wunderkind who harassed a female reporter in such a disgusting way.
But it’s not a #lolMets story. It is, unfortunately, a deeply unsurprising one, and a grossly common one. I was disgusted when I read the ESPN story, but I can’t say I was surprised.