RADIOBEATWRITERWARS: David Murphy, Les Bowen and Jimmy Kempski Shoot Rubber Bullets at Mike Missanelli, Josh Innes, and His Sidekick Spike Eskin
Philly is eating itself again.
Like the Sandworm in Beetlejuice that appeared to have already ingested itself, the Philly media went on some Inception-level shit today, criticizing each other on the air (apparently) and Twitter over questions asked (or not asked) at a mid-week press conference.
First up, Josh Innes “bashed” Eagles beat writers for asking easy questions at Eagles pressers – I kind of agree, but the person who asked Chip about the S-8 Mini deserves a frigging raise – to which Les Bowen replied, on Twitter:
Innes’ sidekick, Spike, followed up with a well-researched, but mostly unnecessary, Tweet containing links to some of Les’s’s’s’s complaints about sports talk radio… which I’m guessing weren’t hard to find because, well, salty Les could complain about the buoyancy of floats at an all-inclusive. A brief back-and-forth ensued:
Cool, guys.
Big fat guy Jimmy Kempski hopped into the fray, or, more appropriately, used the opportunity to Twitterarically punch Innes:
@JimmyKempski Josh said you guys failed to ask Billy Davis about leaving Maxwell out there on an island even tho he kept getting beat.
— The Wicker Man (@Man_of_Wicker) September 17, 2015
That's because Josh Innes is an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about. https://t.co/QZkLz7vg5P
— Jimmy Kempski (@JimmyKempski) September 17, 2015
We’d call it a day at this point, but, on his show, Mike Missanelli also leapt on the beat-bashing train with Innes (that must’ve been a fun ride), which led to his arch-enemy, David Murphy, firing off his own grammatical Nerf gun:
I challenge Missanelli and the other guy to show up to the next Chip Kelly presser mic'd up to see who can ask the tougher question.
— David Murphy (@ByDavidMurphy) September 17, 2015
But they have to do it at the same press conference. Winner gets a bottle of Johnnie Walker blue. Minimum two questions each.
— David Murphy (@ByDavidMurphy) September 17, 2015
@MikeGianella agreed. it's best not to engage. but beat writers work their asses off
— David Murphy (@ByDavidMurphy) September 17, 2015
Will Mike and Josh cross the aisle to fight for the greater good? Doubtful.
And finallllllly, on a somewhat unrelated note, Tim Panaccio last night took this bitchy dig at former Flyers beat writer and Organization reporter Anthony San Filippo:
Just realized how much C. Christie looks and sounds like a certain ex-Flyer beat writer from Delco. #frightening
— Tim Panaccio (@tpanotchRET) September 17, 2015
Having spoken to Anthony, I can confirm that he does at least sound like Christie.
Anyway, that’s your #mediaminute. We’re all adults here. Or something.
