1. I had no idea Jeff Passan could be so fiery. Any time I’ve seen ESPN’s excellent baseball reporter on television, he’s always come across as calm and mellow. That was not the case Tuesday afternoon when he appeared on ESPN radio’s The Michael Kay Show.
Passan opened up his appearance on the New York show by calling out WFAN, the Big Apple’s other sports talk radio station, for questioning how ESPN handled the Jared Porter story.
Porter was fired Tuesday morning as GM of the Mets after ESPN released an investigative piece written by Passan and Mina Kimes about Porter’s sending lewd texts to a journalist while he was a scout for the Cubs in 2017.