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The New York Yankees love the Jews.  I am down in South Florida for the weekend.  It is nice to see part of my family…a five hour drive is not the worst thing in the world.  I am turning in a paper for my Business Organizations class on Monday.  The topic: Duties of Sports Agents to Athletes and Statutory Regulation Thereof.  Lots of SPARTA and UAAA discussion involved.  I will post the paper online sometime in the near future.  Our young baseball players have started short season ball, and some of our more experienced guys continue to perform well.  We are still advising some players who were drafted.  Time to enjoy my family and dog, Mushu.  Here are some stories I missed over

In many’s eyes, Albert Pujols is the best baseball player around and quite frankly, his numbers support that claim.  Pujols’ career statistics are superior  than many of the other players that hold down spots on the highest-paid list in the MLB; names such as Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Manny Ramirez, Derek Jeter and Carlos Beltran.

Here is a list of these players and their current contracts:

This Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up is coming to you from the capitol of Florida: Tallahassee.  Yesterday, I woke up (actually barely even slept because of chirping birds all night) at roughly 6 a.m. to get my girlfriend ready for her MCAT.  Thankfully that battle is behind us.  I feel like I have been studying for the MCAT for the past two months, too.  Don’t get me started about the audio tracks I had to listen to on the ride up to Tally.  How do you like the new toolbar on the bottom of this page?  Make sure to join our Facebook Community by clicking on the Community tab…and send a shout out.  Still working hard on the baseball guys that we are advising, and fielding offers for our basketball players overseas.  Here are some stories I missed this past week:

Scott Boras has started to put on a show in an effort to pull some leverage out of his hat for Stephen Strasburg’s contract.

Boras is wisely positioning the righty from San Diego State as the next best thing since sliced bread—or Mark Prior, for whom the super-agent negotiated the current record deal for a draft pick of $10.5 million in 2001.

But for the Nationals, is the exceptional numbers that Boras will most certainly ask for really worth it? There is so much uncertainty with players who have yet to step onto a major league field. Injuries were the downfall of Prior and other “can’t miss” prospects like Kris Benson and Brien Taylor. $50 million is a lot of money for a lot of question marks.

Wow, it has been a very long and draining week.  But I expected as much going into it.  We have been dealing with the MLB Draft nonstop and will continue to work with our guys who were and were not drafted in the coming months.  Additionally, we will begin to look at 2010 and beyond to pick out exactly which baseball players we think will fit well in the Dynasty family.  Dynasty has also been in talks with various overseas basketball teams about some of our players.  They are commanding quite a bit of interest!  Jason Belmonte and other Dynasty Bowlers will hit the lanes this weekend in New Jersey for the GEICO PBA Team Challenge.  Check out live updates at Be

If I were a sports reporter, I could see myself doing this (minus the ability to dunk a ball successfully in a kiddie basketball hoop).

Via Gawker

I have been waiting for today for a very long time.  The beginning of the 2009 MLB Amateur Draft is just hours away (it kicks off at 6 p.m. EST on MLB Network and MLB.com) and will last well into Thursday, until the final pick of the 50th round.

The MLB Draft begins next Tuesday and will last until Thursday night.  Dynasty has been working around the clock to prepare ourselves for next week.  We will be putting in very long hours!  The rain does not seem to stop here in Gainesville, FL.  If we see an hour of sunshine in a day, we consider ourselves lucky.  Today is my 6 month anniversary with my girlfriend…I have a nice little surprise for her.  She will be taking the MCAT in less than 2 weeks…better believe she is a little stressed.  Working on some big things with Jason Belmonte and Super Bowl week events.  Here are some stories I missed over the past week:

Football

Randy Johnson became the 24 member of the 300 win club on his first try as he pitched six innings, giving up one run (unearned) on two hits.  He had two strikeouts and two walks in the historical outing.
Johnson became the first pitcher to win #300 on his first try since Tom Seaver did it [...]

Been a while since we last did a Dynasty Notes column (8/25/08 to be exact), so here we go…

Baseball

One of Dynasty’s newest baseball clients, has been on a tear since signing with the sports and talent agency.  Kyle McPherson, a 14th round pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2007 amateur entry Draft got the start for the Low A West Virginia Power last night and went 5 innings with 6 strike outs and only walked 2 batters, gave up 2 hits, and just 1 earned run.  You might be wondering why McPherson was taken out of the game after the 5th if he was doing so well.  The Pirates restrict their farm arms to a 70 pitch count.  I happen to think this is a very intelligent idea.

I am back up in lovely Gainesville, FL.  No matter if you are in Miami, Gainesville, or anywhere else in the state, you better get used to summer weather.  Blistering heat until 2-3 p.m., then at least a couple of hours of thunderstorms.  Such is life.  I am back to taking classes and working very hard on our current clients, plus our prospects in both baseball and basketball.  Last week I went to open tryouts for the new Lingerie Football League.  It was fun to watch and definitely is an interesting concept with a novel compensation structure for its players.  Hey, if it grows to be large enough, perhaps some of the hard hitting ladies will need some good representation.  Here are some stories I missed over the past week:

Football

Minor League players and Independent ball players barely make enough money to survive.  For those players who have wives and even kids, the very low salary makes it extremely difficult for any type of extended stay in the Minors.  Some have hung-up their cleats for this reason alone.

After last night, I’m just glad that the Canes are still alive…