Mets Fire GM for Sending Explicit Photos to Journalist

Yeah but if this were a star player there is ZERO chance that he loses his job. They are all hypocrites in the end.

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

Employers having a code of conduct is not cancel culture.

Weird, because I definitely saw people arguing that a recent coach being fired for violating code of conduct by saying that Fat Albert Stacey Abrams stole another election was cancel culture.

I read that Jared Porter - the General Manager of the New York Mets - had been fired for sending more than 60+ unsolicited texts to a female reporter including a dick pick. When I first heard about it, while I wasn't real happy that someone was fired for their dating life and for something that happened 4+ years ago, I kind of begrudgingly excepted it as inevitable with today's cancel culture as he may have sort of fibbed when confronted by ESPN. That is until I read the actual ESPN article.

The reality is she texted him that she wanted "more of him", sent him a selfie of herself, asked him out after he initially asked her out and said she liked it when he sent her a clothed pick of his groin area. For ESPN to say he sent her an unsolicited dick pick is absurd.

Here are the facts in ESPN's own story, they just didn't present it this way.

1) Guy meets a woman in an elevator. They exchanged business cards and he promptly invites her out for a drink. Before the drink, he asks if she has a boyfriend and sends her a selfie and asks if she likes it. Clearly, he has made his intentions known as to what the point of the drink is (she says she thought they would talk business).

2) They don't actually go out for drinks. A few weeks pass. He reaches out to her and asks via text "Why aren't we hanging out??"He asks her if she remembers what he looks like and texts: "You're so pretty. Do you have a boyfriend yet?" He sent a selfie and said: "It can be me!"

The woman responds with text shorthand indicating laughter and asks him out by texting: "let's meet."Porter asked her for a picture. She sent him a picture.

3) After he gets her selfie, he writes back, "You're gorgeous. Want more of me?"

She said yes.

4) Since she said yes, he then "sent three pictures, including the first of several that would show a man lying on a bed with a bulge in his pants" and wrote, "Like?" She sent back a laughing emoji and texted yes.

5) He then proceeds down the chain that culminated in an actual dick pick.

6) ESPN was aware of this story in 2017, but sat on it until he gets his dream job, then they publish it and now he's fired.

None of what I wrote is made up. It's all in the ESPN article, they just bury it in the bottom.

In my view, the guy reminds me of an awkward letsrunner. Totally inept socially. Needs to maybe be told "F off" by the woman, but fired? No.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30737248/ny-mets-gm-jared-porter-acknowledges-sending-explicit-images-female-reporter-worked-chicago-cubs

I'm not going to comment on this story specifically, but you just have to be careful as a man with money because money hungry women are the absolute worst and are capable of anything.

Again, my comment is irrelevant to this story because I did not read it extensively (just skimmed through) and this former Mets GM may in fact be a total creep, who knows? Obviously the media is out to get him and he may or may not deserve that, who knows? I don't feel like reading and rolling my eyes to a sensationalized article.

Follpwing up after I read more of article: The unsolicited texts is harassment. Dude went over the top. He seemed desperate and entitled. He could have any woman of choice with his money yet acted like a smug little brat.

Anyways, I'll reiterate my point of watching out for money hungry women, they are the worst indeed.

I guess it wasn't that big then.

not using my normal handle on this one wrote:

5) He then proceeds down the chain that culminated in an actual dick pick.

You've conveniently hidden all the creepy behavior in this innocuous-sounding line. Now should a history of creepiness be a fireable offense? I don't know. But as a private company the Mets can make that choice.

When you say he proceeds down the chain that culminated in a dick pic you’re conveniently not saying the part about her ignoring over 60 text messages sent over a long period of time. She cut off communication with him and his response was to continue harassing her and ultimately send her a picture of a dick, whether it was his or someone else’s. I really hope you don’t actually think that is ok behavior. He deserved to get fired and is lucky that is all.

We've merged two threads into one. "not using my normal handle on this one" started a thread after reading the full report saying he shouldnt' have been fired. That thread is merged into this one. That thread was titled, "Jeff Porter shouldn't have been fired: She asked him out, said she wanted more of him and liked a pic of a bulge in his pants"

Yes. I am absolutely saying that the act of sending unsolicited picture of your penis to another individual is a fireable offense. It is also illegal in many states. Add to that the person he sent it to was a journalist and one of his key job responsibilities is positively representing his organization to the press and this is even a more ridiculous discussion to be having.

If I sent an unsolicited di## pick to a client of my employer I would fully deserve to frog walked out of the building.

WTF is wrong with this place!