New York Post

Reliever’s share shot payback

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LATE last season, Yanks reliever David Robertson chaired a players’ meeting during which daily support staff members — the poorestpai­d daily regulars — were either shorted or stiffed on postseason shares.

Now with the Phils, Robertson has missed most of the season with arm surgery, thus reader Malcolm Yull asks what kind of share Robertson should be voted should Philly make the postseason.

ABC/Disney’s “Dancing With the Stars” this year will include invited guest stars Lamar Odom, ex-husband of Khloe Kardashian, exNBAer and ex-arrested drug and booze abuser, and Ray Lewis, the NFL star headbreake­r who paid the families of two homicide victims after copping a plea for obstructio­n of justice in that unsolved case.

Seems we’re in for another NFL season loaded with players — college men — spewing and tweeting insults, vulgaritie­s, dares and boasts. Already, I’m sick of the news and noise made by Baker Mayfield, Odell Beckham Jr., Ezekiel Elliott, Antonio Brown, Jalen Ramsey. And that goes double for Jerry Jones.

So NBC all year sells golf viewers on the incomparab­le importance of the FedEx Cup as the huge PGA seasonclos­ing event. Yet last weekend, with the field fighting to make the top 30 to qualify and Tiger Woods with no chance, NBC stuck with Woods.

Larry King has been married so many times, he has rice marks on his face.

Bet on the Little League World Series? Of course you can! South Korea opened at even money, Japan 3/2, Louisiana 3/1, Hawaii 5/1. Seriously. Hey, you can have the 12-yearold starting pitcher throw the game for an X-Box!

Reader William Cook: “Now that the NFL has hired Jay-Z to be its social conscience mentor, is it OK for me, as a white male, to sing Jay-Z songs at Karaoke Night down at my American Legion?”

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