Jared Porter left the Mets no choice. Late Monday night, when ESPN published the lurid details of his lecherous pursuit of a female reporter in 2016, Porter was as good as gone. By 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Steven A. Cohen, the Mets’ owner, had fired his recently hired general manager.
It was the first crisis of Cohen’s brief ownership of the Mets, and he handled it swiftly, without equivocation. That was refreshing, though any other decision would have defied logic. If your house is on fire, you put out the fire. The longer it burns, the worse it gets.