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Originally Posted by Westheim
The Mets losing key non-player personnel through sheer stupidity is becoming a pattern though. I mean the Wilpons are not a big loss, but first Beltran, now this Jared of Jareds.
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I said I would leave the guy alone after my rant, and I am. Instead, I want to focus on this:
That is, the Mets' handling of the situation. According to
this writer,
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The Mets made the move to fire Jared Porter in less than nine hours, which has to be some kind of record for a franchise that always had issues with accountability.
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Incredibly, new owner Steve Cohen -- on the job for only 74 days himself -- didn’t even wait for his team to put out a press release. Cohen took to Twitter at 7:55 a.m. Tuesday to announce Porter’s firing, citing a "zero tolerance" for his actions.
No monitoring the talk-radio airwaves. No waiting for the media reaction. Swift, appropriate, unequivocal hammer-dropping. Message delivered and received.
There was no time for LOL Mets. Porter’s GM tenure lasted 37 days, then was removed like a Band-Aid being ripped off and discarded just as quickly. If Cohen and president Sandy Alderson truly are committed to culture change -- i.e., erasing the Wilpon stain from the franchise -- that means no room for half-measures.
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But dumping Porter doesn’t go down as just another humiliating episode for the Mets, to be filed away in that skyscraper-sized cabinet full of the facepalms and cringeworthy moments. Cohen and Alderson got the opportunity to rise above that with their unblinking stance Tuesday, allowing the Mets to make something better of the moment, and perhaps emerge stronger in correcting someone else’s destructive mistakes.
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In other words, the Mets handled an unfortunate situation in a professional manner rather than looking like a sad sack organization.