Was that Charlie? I didn't recall...he actually was as nice as can be before slamming down the phone so to speak
you may have noticed since the thread about this topic that there has not been one "expert" on my air. no Phil Steele. No Wooly B. None of that stuff. We do still run the paid advertisments during regular stop sets but even those have been limited to Monday afternoon. I am trying, people!!!
I get a kick out of when a caller proposes a stupid trade possibility. By stupid I mean they propose that the locals will give up a couple of mediocre players and receive an all-star caliber player in return. There may be some dumb GMs out there, but jeez.
Interesting clause by 790. I know why they put it in, the question would be why Charlie accepted it. My guess is that, money being equal, he preferred to leave 610 for whatever reason. Anyway, may the best station win.
That dude on the right...didn't he used to be on CNN Sports show? Seemed like he had an unusual name and he was always trying to talk in these weird voices. Now that I think about it, he was doing the stuff that the anchors on ESPN are doing now but only like 10 years earlier!
One of the problems with sports talk down here is that even the hosts seem to be homers. There is no balance....(if there is I havent heard it, yet). One of the things that makes Mike and the Mad Dog so good is that you have 2 sides to everything. Mike is the biggest hometown fan there is. He loves the Yanks, Giants, Knicks, etc...but he is knowledgeable enough to know when they stink. He also has Russo sitting next to him who absolutely despises the Yanks and the Mets. Its usually Russo that is quicker to point out issues with Joe Torre, Fred Wilpon, Charles Dolan, the old NY Ranger GMs etc. What also makes the show good is the ability of Mike and Chris to absolutely put the local mgrs/owners/gms on the spot. If Torre makes a bonehead call (in their opinion) and he is on the show the next day, they kill him for it...and Torre has a respect for them because they are justbeing the voice of the FAN. Russo has been in countless screaming matches with Mets owner, Fred Wilpon and Neil Smith (Rangers GM) because of stupid moves that the team makes. I couldn't see the guys here ever having the stones to confront Dom Capers, Tim Purpura or Les...but that is what makes a good show...addressing the issues that need to be addressed. For instance, if this Beltran thing was reversed...and NY was the "small guy" sitting and waiting for Boras to call, Mike and the Dog would get the GM on the phone and ask him what the hell he is waiting for. If the GM said, well its up to the owner...then they will call the owner on the show and ask him...they get to the bottom of it. I don't mean to sit and berate either program...I didnt realize Chance was a big part of the 610 team so my apologies if I offended you with any comments towards the show....but I just love sports radio and I would love it if it was a little better down here.
wow he is making some good money. Lance on 610 just said wow i just saw charlies salery numbers someone needs to call our management and get us a raise.
There is nothing worse than newspaper articles on court proceedings. Reading that, I feel like I have no clue why the decision actually went the way it went. My best guess, is that 610's lawyers didn't draft the contract in a way that showed "compensation" going to Charlie in exchange for no-compete. That appears to be what the article is saying, but I have no faith in journalists being able to capture what the real story is in court proceedings. Nick -- I don't think it's necessarily a X-Box v PS2 comparison...i think what you're hearing is a group of people saying they simply prefer one over the other, given what they've heard so far. i fall in that camp, too. i've heard dan patrick before..i've heard this national programming before....it's boring. i'd rather listen to local sports. that seems to be what we're hearing here.
What? So John and Lance can't chastise me anymore because I "bet the house" that Tech would beat Kansas by a large margin? Screw those spread guys! Listen to me. I'm free!
Gee...you mean the non-compete is unenforcable because Charlie wasn't being compensated? Why didn't I think of that?
no..you said these things weren't enforceable because people have a right to work and to a livelihood.
you were quite adamant, fatty! in sports...anything can happen. never bet the farm. douglas beat tyson.
I said that I hired 15-20 guys and the only ones who werent allowed to work were the ones still being compensated. Hate to say I told ya so...but I told ya so. heres what i said... I understand what you are saying...but I know guys who I hired who had no-compete clauses...and they were rarely upheld...I would say out of 20 or so guys that came to work for me from other firms who had no competes, 18 of them were allowed to work. The ones who weren't allowed to work were guys who were still getting compensated in some way from their old firm. You cannot prevent someone from working for 3 years. If there is someone out there that has been unable to work because of a no-compete for 3 years, then they need a new lawyer.
Max: When am I never not adamant?!? There's an old proverb I live by: Even when I'm wrong, I'm right.
you didn't tell me jack, NJ. i'm saying i see these things enforced IN TEXAS all the time, as long as the language matches what the courts have called for. i've been on both sides of this personally. this is poor drafting, plain and simple...and thus, unenforceable. you are picking out a snippet of what you said...you made broader claims about this than that. you're wrong in assuming that the only way this could still be enforced is if the guy is still getting paid by his old employer. you can believe you're right all you want to...but that's not among the factors considered. i posted you a memo taken directly from case law. but i'm sure you know more about it than the courts, as well, NJ. i don't know how it is in NJ or NY or wherever you are where labor and employment laws are very different than they are here.
Almost, but not quite. According to the story, the non-compete was ruled invalid because it was inserted into CP's contract (at the last renewal), and he did not receive any added benefit *at the time* in exchange. Nothing to do with ongoing compensation. As I read it, had Infinity given him a single dollar specifically for addining the non-compete, the ruling might have been different.
