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Interview With Paul Rutgers on Bus Leagues Baseball

Darren Heitner — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:00:05 +0000

Dynasty client, Paul Rutgers, recently talked with Bus Leagues Baseball about his experiences in previous World Baseball Classics (playing for Australia and South Africa), his awesome dance moves, and what he expects the future to look like. Read the entire interview here.

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Independent Baseball Outlook

Darren Heitner — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:00:46 +0000

There is no such thing as the Independent Baseball League. Instead, there are various independent baseball leagues, operating under this common title because none of them are affiliated with Major League Baseball or the MLB Minor League Affiliates. These independent leagues serve two main purposes: 1) To provide a place for those initially overlooked to show their skill in front of MLB scouts with the hope of being picked up into an affiliated organization, 2) To serve as a stop for MLB affiliated players who have been cut by their organizations and hope to return to affiliated ball.

Dynasty has three clients who will be starting their 2009 campaigns in various independent leagues. Gerard Haran will start the season with the Atlantic League’s Newark Bears, Brendan Murphy will be with the Frontier League’s Kalamazoo Kings, and Paul Rutgers will be with the Golden Baseball League‘s Tucson Toros.

Independent Leagues are respected by MLB scouts. Many players have been able to come out of various indy leagues to have successful careers in Major League Baseball. One league that is getting some good press is where Rutgers will be starting the 2009 season: The Golden Baseball league.

The GBL is only going into its 5th season of existence, and is seeing nice revenue growth year-to-year. Interestingly, two Stanford students dreampt up the league and started it with $5 million from outside investors. While mainstream leagues are being stunned by the economic downturn, losing sponsor after sponsor, the GBL has mostly been unaffected. In fact, two years ago, the GBL fielded 6 teams; this year it will start with 10 teams.

Many of the independent leagues have not started their seasons or are just beginning this week. The GBL does not start until the middle of May.

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2009 World Baseball Classic = Success

Darren Heitner — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:00:24 +0000

Dynasty had one of its clients, Paul Rutgers, perform in the World Baseball Classic. While his team of South Africa did not last long in the tournament, Rutgers at least showed off his dancing skills (I hope the producers of Dancing with the Stars were watching!). Beyond Rutgers and his dancing, the World Baseball Classic was a huge success. Here are some numbers from the WBC that Joe Favorito sent over to me:

The Final between Japan and Korea on March 23 drew 54,846 fans, the largest crowd in World Baseball Classic history.
A total of 141,854 fans attended the three games in Los Angeles over Championship weekend…43,630 fans attended the Japan vs. United States Semi-Final on March 22, the second largest-crowd in World Baseball Classic history.
ESPN’s telecasts of this year’s semifinals (Korea vs. Venezuela Saturday, March 21, and USA vs. Japan Sunday, March 22) and final (Korea vs. Japan, Monday, March 23) averaged 1,820,000 viewers (up 24 percent) and a 1.4 rating (up eight percent).
In Japan, the Final earned a 36.4 rating despite starting at 10:30 AM on Tuesday morning.
Sunday night’s telecast of Japan vs. USA on ESPN was the most-watched World Baseball Classic telecast in U.S. history by posting a 2.2 rating.
The 2.2 rating of Japan vs. USA more than doubled the 1.0 rating both semifinals produced in 2006.
Japan vs. USA was the most watched sports event on North American cable television last week.
More than 15,000 fans watched the Final from Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul, South Korea.

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There Are No Ants In Paul Rutgers Pants

Darren Heitner — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:14:47 +0000

Yeah, this is my client…

Who said the Dynasty boys can’t dance? While Paul’s South Africa team was knocked out of the WBC in the first round, Paul showed his skill on the field and at the plate. Even in the warm-up games to the WBC against MLB teams, Paul impressed the commentators. Go ahead and add Paul on MySpace.

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