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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Payments for Recco Baseball

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Saturday, October 3, 2015

Fantasy Picks for Saturday October 3rd, 2015

Saturday's selections:

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

20 years of the 4th overall pick

Below displays the inexact science of the NBA Draft (Or any other Sports Draft)....You will quickly notice, there are alot more misses in the top 4, than there are franchise players!!!!

The first name was the 4th overall pick, which the Knicks will have this June....The three names in parentheses are the #'s 1, 2 and 3 overall picks....Then are the players the "experts missed" in the top four:

1995 Rasheed Wallace (1-Joe Smith, 2-Antonio McDeyss, 3-Jerry Stackhouse) Kevin Garnett 5th!

1996 Stephon Marbury (1-Allen Iverson, 2-Marcus Camby, 3-Shareef Abdur Raheem) Kobe Bryant 13th!

1997 Antonio Daniels (1-Tim Duncan, 2-Keith Van Horn, 3-Chauncey Billups) Tracy McGrady 9th!

1998 Antawn Jamison (1-Michael Olawakandi, 2-Mike Bibby, 3-Raef LaFrentz) Vince Carter 5th! Dirk Nowitskie 9th!

1999 Lamar Odom (1-Elton Brand, 2-Steve Francis, 3-Baron Davis)

2000 Marcus Fizer (1-Kenyon Martin, 2-Stromile Swift, 3-Darius Miles)

2001 Eddy Curry (1-Kwame Brown, 2-Tyson Chandler, 3-Pau Gasol) Joe Johnson 10th! Zach Randolph 19th!

2002 Drew Gooden (1-Yao Ming, 2-Jay Williams, 3-Mike Dunleavy) Amare Stoudemire 9th!

2003 Chris Bosh (1-Lebron, 2-Darko Milicic, 3-Carmelo) Dwayne Wade picked 5th!

2004 Shaun Livingston (1-Dwight Howard, 2-Emeka Okafor, 3-Ben Gorden) Luol Deng picked 7th!

2005 Chris Paul (1-Andrew Bogut, 2-Marvin Williams, 3-Deron Williams)

2006 Tyrus Thomas (1-Andrea Bagnani, 2-LaMarcus Aldridge, 3-Adam Morrison) Rajon Rondo picked 21st! Kyle Lowery picked 24th!

2007 Mike Conley Jr (1-Greg Oden, 2-Kevin Durant, 3-Al Horford) Joakim Noah picked 9th!

2008 Russell Westbrook (1-Derrick Rose, 2-Michael Beasley, 3-OJ Mayo) Kevin Love 5th! Brook Lopez 10th! Serge Ibaka 24th!

2009 Tyreke Evans (1-Blake Griffin, 2-Hasheem Thabeet, 3-James Harden) Steph Curry 7th! Jeff Teague 19th!

2010 Wesley Johnson (1-John Wall, 2-Evan Turner, 3-Derrick Favors) DeMarcus Cousins 5th! Paul George 10th!

2011 Tristan Thompson (1-Kyrie Irving, 2-Derrick Williams, 3-Enes Kanter) Klay Thompson 11th! Kawhi Leonard 15th!
Jimmy Butler 30th!

2012 Dion Waiters (1-Anthony Davis, 2-Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, 3-Bradley Beal) Damien Lilliard 6th!

2013 Cody Zeller (1-Anthony Bennett, 2-Victor Oladipo, 3-Otto Porter)

2014 Aaron Gordon (1-Andrew Wiggins, 2-Jabari Parker, 3-Joel Embid)

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Contracts in Sports

In light of the albatross that the Yankees are facing over the next five years, still having to pay Alex Rodriguez $114 million dollars for what he's done in his past, opposed to what he'll give them in his future, it got me to thinking how pro sports teams should pay their star athletes. Obviously it has to be fair for both sides but most importantly it has to reward those for what they accomplish and not what they already accomplished. So here goes.

Let's take baseball for instance. Every team utilizes a 25 man active roster. EVERY player on it gets $3 million dollars in base salary. For many of us, $3 million dollars makes you richer than you ever imagined, so it's a great starting point. From there, you get paid based on incentives. Hit 50 home runs and you make an additional $5 million. Reach 125 RBIs and make another $5 million. Hit over .325 and you cash in, an additional $5 million. The incentive pay comes down as your production comes down. Set it up so that the cream of the crop gets paid "Arod" type of money and that players like say, Arod this season, get "middle of the road" money.

Sign players for as long as you like, but only for the base pay. This way they still have financial security (nobody should ever go broke on say, $3 million dollars a year) but if they produce for you, you have to pay them accordingly.

Will this happen. NEVER. Even though it's best for the fans, teams and owners, the players would never approve it. Is it extreme? Compared to the nonsense that goes on now, yes. But how about relievers. Come in and throw one pitch and your day is done. That guy may make $6 million dollars a year. Based on what? The game & salaries are out of control and it's no good.

The best advice for the Yankees, is to trade Rodriguez. You ask, who wants him? Good question. Probably nobody at 5 years & $114 million dollars remaining on his deal. But what about 5 years and & $57 million. I say many teams would. And that means the Yankees will have to eat half the contract. Which isn't that big a deal. Right now they are on the hook for 5 years & $114 million. Erase half of that, go and get a competent 3rd baseman that can give you 18 HRs and 57 RBIs (Arod's 2012 stats) which shouldn't be hard and sign that guy for between $5-8 million a year and you are ahead of the game.

Don't trade him and watch this aging slugger, who has never been embraced here in NY, fade terribly into retirement.

Monday, August 13, 2012

The birth of "Jerry Rello"

As for Jerry Rello....It all started when I was filling in with Boomer & Carton sometime during the 2008 summer, while Chris Carlin was the morning anchor. While doing night updates, following a Mets game, Wayne Hagin threw to me for the update and had no idea who I was. He mistaked the C's in my name for L's and proceeded to call me Jerry Rello. The sound bite was found, and when I worked with B&C a few days later, they used the soundbyte to introduce me. Alas, the nickname was born!