Manish Mehta - FIRED

[Heismanberg]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/12/11/manish-mehta-jets-daily-news/

ya late

[SixFeetDeep]

If there is any such thing as karmic justice he’ll get some other really shitty, pathetic job in media where he’ll attempt to keep his twitter active to stay relevant only to get trolled
And ratioed until the end of time

Manish is a hoo-ha

[bojanglesman]

He'll lay low for a while and re-emerge somewhere in the middle of bumfuck on some sports rag.  Or Walmart bathroom sweeper.  Whatevs.

[Heismanberg]

Barstool will probably hire him

[Miamipuck]

Before he became a raging rooster, he was a decent reporter. If he goes back to that he will probably get a job. Sometimes people freak up, do their time and learn from it.

Or he can just be an immense gaping poopchute his entire life.


Honestly I don't care if I ever hear his name again.

[Libero_2]

I don't care where he ends up as long as he never reports on anything Jets related ever again.

Hopefully he gets banished to covering A baseball in Idaho.

[Badger]

That is hilariously meta (pun not intended).

In the UK this guy would be just another average tabloid hack, the like of which every paper has multiples, and much of what he has done would be if not in the job description, certainly expected as part of doing his job. That so many people both inside and outside the NY media are bent out of shape about him is mindblowing.

That says more about the UK media cesspool than us.

[dcm1602]

Manish finally responds

In an obnoxiously long radio interview in Boston

https://985thesportshub.com/2021/01/12/manish-mehta-toucher-and-rich-interview-jets/

[SixFeetDeep]

"The Jets have been very sensitive to criticism, so they went to these extraordinary lengths to try to remove me from the beat, because I found out a lot of their dysfunctional inner-workings," Mehta said. "No team should be able to get away with this. You should not be able to suppress a journalist by smearing their reputation with distortions and embellishments, and sometimes just flat-out fabrications, just because you don't like what they are reporting and writing, and that's exactly what happened here. The NFL, frankly, took the Jets' word for it without ever talking to me or my editors about whether any of those claims were true.

"Fundamentally, this is wrong. It sets a very dangerous precedent."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



Forgive me while I..



BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Heismanberg]

The Jets framed me!

So Manish threatened Joe Douglas at the Senior Bowl, but Douglas framed him when it comes to the ice cream story.  Even though Manish actually did send that text to him...

[mj2sexay]

Manish finally responds

In an obnoxiously long radio interview in Boston

https://985thesportshub.com/2021/01/12/manish-mehta-toucher-and-rich-interview-jets/

I don't think it's worth wading through the 26 minutes of excrement that interview must be, but if those guys didn't bring up the rumor that he almost got into a fight with John Schneider at the combine they suck derriere at their job.

[SixFeetDeep]

One of the more controversial accusations against Mehta was that he interacted with the son of Jets GM Joe Douglas in an inappropriate way at a baseball game. Mehta described the interaction as "innocuous" and said he had been having friendly text conversations with Douglas at the time.

"The Jets framed that incident and said that Joe Douglas got a strange text out of nowhere from an unknown number saying that 'Hey I just saw your son at a baseball game,' as if I was monitoring his son in some way," Mehta said. "I don't quite understand it."

Actual text:

“Hey Joe, I know that your son’s favorite ice cream flavor is Vanilla. Interesting that he went with Dippin Dots over the waffle cone. Like his old man I bet. How do I know this? Let’s just say the Philly Fanatic and I have been watching him. Great day for a ballgame. That’s how good of a journalist I am.

Now let’s end the charade and you admit to me that you wanted to sign Logan Ryan.”

[SixFeetDeep]

“Does your son wear tighty whiteys or boxers?”

[Heismanberg]

Actual text:

“Hey Joe, I know that your son’s favorite ice cream flavor is Vanilla. Interesting that he went with Dippin Dots over the waffle cone. Like his old man I bet. How do I know this? Let’s just say the Philly Fanatic and I have been watching him. Great day for a ballgame. That’s how good of a journalist I am.

Now let’s end the charade and you admit to me that you wanted to sign Logan Ryan.”

lmao

[bojanglesman]

Actual text:

“Hey Joe, I know that your son’s favorite ice cream flavor is Vanilla. Interesting that he went with Dippin Dots over the waffle cone. Like his old man I bet. How do I know this? Let’s just say the Philly Fanatic and I have been watching him. Great day for a ballgame. That’s how good of a journalist I am.

Now let’s end the charade and you admit to me that you wanted to sign Logan Ryan.”

I can't tell sarcasm anymore, you're bullshitting, right?