Do you want to own the Toronto Blue Jays?
Now’s your chance! (Please read the fine print)
We are days away from baseball season, and as exciting as that would be on its own, this one will mark the Toronto Blue Jays’ 50th.
If at any point over the last five decades you’ve found yourself watching a game and thinking to yourself, they should do things differently, this could be your year.
Rogers plans to announce today that fans can apply to cosplay as the team’s owner. Six fans will win—one per month—and each will get to experience the insider existence of the franchise’s top boss. Yes, you actually have to apply—this isn’t a real job, but imagine it is and treat it as such.
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“As the proud owner of Canada’s team, we’re excited to celebrate 50 years of Blue Jays baseball with fans from across Canada,” Edward Rogers, chair of the Toronto Blue Jays and executive chair of Rogers Communications, said in a statement. “During this milestone season, we’re celebrating the fans that got us here, from first-time fans to lifelong fans.”
The successful candidates will get behind-the-scenes Rogers Centre access, including to the clubhouse. They’ll also get to watch batting practice, maybe even in the dugout, and meet a player. (We don’t know which one. They’re all good!) They’ll be seated in the new Rogers Terrace to watch the game, and most powerfully of all, will have an opportunity to pitch team executives with ideas for the Jays.
They already sell $1 hot dogs, so no need to pitch that, and “put Max Scherzer back on the team” has been capably handled by his eight-year-old daughter, so don’t worry about that either. “Please win the next World Series” could be workable.
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
