Ex-Mets GM admits sending inappropriate text while with Cubs

Jared Porter acknowledged that he sent an inappropriate text message to a reporter while he was a Chicago Cubs executive in 2016, which led to the New York Mets firing him as general manager in 2021 after just 38 days. Porter was hired by the Mets from the Arizona Diamondbacks on Dec. 13, 2020, and fired on Jan. 19, 2021, about nine hours after an ESPN report detailing that he sent sexually explicit, uninvited text messages and images to a female reporter. "It was an inappropriate relationship for a lot of reasons, you know, both for me personally and also, of course, with the reporter," Porter said.