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New details emerged Tuesday evening on the Mets dismissal of interim general manager Zack Scott, following his failure to immediately report a DUI on Sept. 1.
The Athletic reports that the Mets and Scott started to reconcile the final weekend of October with Scott awaiting trial on Dec. 8. Scott even gave thoughts on what the Mets should do early in the offseason.
Mets president Sandy Alderson was in favor of bringing Scott back. Cohen reportedly “was more concerned about the potential public-relations fallout not just of retaining Scott but of promoting him in the wake of his arrest and charge.”
A meeting between Scott and his defense lawyer and Cohen’s Point72 asset management attorney turned contentious as Scott’s side felt the administrative leave was unlike many organizations and thought it lumped him into the sexual harassment allegations against Jared Porter and Mickey Callaway. Cohen’s lawyers found issue with Scott waiting a day before reporting what happened.
Alderson previously stated the Mets would wait for the result of Scott’s pending trial but that turned out not to be the case.
“I assume and I advise everyone else I’m in contact with to assume that anything you do, anything you say is going to become public,” Alderson said at the GM meetings on Tuesday. “And if you have that discipline, then you’re fine. But that’s something I try to advise everyone that I know and try to live with myself. I don’t drink. Why? Because I don’t want to get stopped. I have no idea how my body would react to a couple of beers. I don’t want to know.
“What we’re looking for, what we hope to get is someone that has the discipline to understand what they stand for in terms of the organization and themselves personally.”
