Auditions begin next week
Brian Hess
Farms.com
Jigsaw Casting is calling on baseball players for an upcoming Dairy Farmers of Canada campaign.
Men and women between the ages of 30 and 45 are eligible to apply, according to a Jigsaw Casting Agency release on May 1.
Applicants must be intermediate or higher skill level softball or baseball players. They are required to be physically capable to play.
Auditions commence on May 13. The commercial will be shot in Toronto on May 30.
Successful candidates will be paid approximately $1,500.
Baseball and agriculture set to meet.
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Jigsaw’s announcement comes almost a year after J.A. Happ, MLB pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, publicly questioned the sale of bagged milk.
Happ, born in the U.S., has trouble understanding Canada’s logic behind milk being packaged and sold in bags.
"You guys sell milk in bags and I don't really get why, or what you do then with the bags. Other than (the milk) it seems like Canada's doing a pretty good job,” he told Kristina Rutherford of Sportsnet in August 2016.
“Put (milk) in a gallon jug so you don't have a sloppy, messy bag."
Dairy Farmers of Canada may be reaching out to a younger, athletic crowd in this latest commercial, similar to the video released in February regarding hockey.
Farms.com has reached out to Dairy Farmers of Canada for more information on the upcoming campaign.