Episode 368 - Manish Unleashed (Pt 2): The Journey & The Persona

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Sports, News, Football, Sports News

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Scott Mason talks to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News for part 2 of a multi part series discussing the life and times of the Jets' most controversial beat reporter! Manish talks about his his journey from young sports fan to Daily News beat reporter & columnist including what he really wanted to do for a living and which prominent NY sports writer was offered his current job before he was, what it has been like covering the team the past decade, how his public persona developed and whether or not there is a bit of a pro wrestling element to it, how he walks the fine line of being both a beat reporter and columnist, and we begin delving into his biggest controversies by discussing the infamous tweet he sent out last offseason about former New York Jet, Muhammad Wilkerson! Note: This was part 2 of a multi-part series we are calling "Manish Unleashed" with part 3 to be released next week. In future episodes of this series, Manish will talk about a variety of subjects including his penchant for controversy, perceived feuds, and he will answer criticism of some of his most infamous moments on the Jets beat! Play Like A Jet is part of the Turn On The Jets Digital Podcast network...... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Overtime Podcast Network.
0:03.1	Welcome to a Turn on the Jets digital special presentation.
0:06.3	My name is Scott Mason.
0:07.4	You can follow me on Twitter at Play Like a Jet 1.
0:10.1	And last week we began part one of an in-depth conversation with New York Daily News beat reporter and columnist Minish Mehta of the New York Daily News.
0:19.0	This week we dive into part two.
0:21.6	And, Manish, I want to shift gears a little bit because you said before that the fans think they know you, but they really don't.
0:28.7	And it's funny because when I opened this up for suggestions, I went on Twitter and said, hey, does anybody have anything that they would like me to discuss with Manish?
0:37.2	A whole bunch of people,
0:39.1	and I kind of laughed, but this kind of made me sad too, said, does Mnish realize how much so many
0:45.2	Jets fans hate him? And to me, that was kind of weird, because you don't know the guy, like you said,
0:50.4	so why would you say you hate him? I think really what it is is they hate the public persona
0:55.6	that they think they know so i wanted to ask a little bit about you and how you got your start
1:00.7	and your journey to the position that you're at right now and everything that you've done so tell
1:05.4	me a little bit about that did you start out as a little kid wanting to be a writer is it something
1:10.6	that developed as you got
1:11.6	older? Tell me about your journey that landed you at the New York Daily News covering the Jets.
1:17.7	Well, I wanted to be Don Mattingly. If I'm being perfectly honest with you, I wanted to play
1:23.6	baseball growing up, and I played through high school, but not beyond that.
1:27.9	But, yeah, look, I've always played sports.
1:31.0	I played basketball.
1:32.4	Basketball is the sport that I actually play the most.
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