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" Robinson Cano just signed the third-richest contract in the history of baseball -- $240 mill. over ten years. He&amp;#039;ll be 41 when he receives his last $24 million paycheck from the Seattle Mariners. His agent, Jay-Z (really \u2014 this deal was reportedly Hova&amp;#039;s baby) was said to have walked away from the deal yesterday. Cano and the CAA wing Roc Nation came back to it earlier today and signed the papers. This is a bad contract and bad for sports and a little disrespectful to people as a whole, but it&amp;#039;s really just another papercut in Creative Artist Agency&amp;#039;s quest to ruin any great professional sports team with vulnerable management. CAA Sports has already defenestrated the Knicks. There is no other way to put it. Former Knicks GM Glen Grunwald was forced to tarnish his reputation this summer by buckling to ownership&amp;#039;s demands to work with them. Grunwald reportedly wanted to throw all of the Knicks&amp;#039; chips at Trailblazer LaMarcus Aldridge this summer. He was instead forced to trade a first round draft pick and a couple of assets to the Raptors for CAA client Andrea Bargnani, who was booed so mercilessly at home games that Toronto was considering cutting him outright. Now, Aldridge is having an MVP-caliber season as the best player on the first-place Blazers. Then the Knicks signed CAA client Chris Smith, who has been called &amp;quot;the worst player in the history of NBA Summer League&amp;quot; by a league executive. He was guaranteed a roster spot shortly after his brother, CAA client J.R. Smith, inked a sweetheart deal to stay in New York. It is a basketball team that is being run on favors, shady backroom deals, and badly kept secrets. It is also the model for how CAA Sports wants to do business. Predictably, the Knicks are now in last place in the worst division in the history of professional sports. I say &amp;quot;former Knicks GM&amp;quot; Glen Grunwald, by the way, because he was fired anyway. It&amp;#039;s not going to get better. Jay Z&amp;#039;s boutique section of CAA Sports, Roc Nation Sports, was just founded in April. Roc Nation Sports represents Kevin Durant, so if he heads off to the Knicks or Nets on short money in 2015, at least you&amp;#039;ll know why. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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