Press Release for the Dave Barclay MLB FanCave Campaign

by Dave Barclay


Hey folks, here's a press release I wrote earlier this week for the campaign. If you know any media, feel free to send it their way. Yours, Dave

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                  February 16, 2012

DAVE BARCLAY ENTERS FINAL WEEK 
OF CAMPAIGN FOR MLB FANCAVE

One of two Top 50 Finalists From Toronto 
selected from over 22,000 entries

On February 8th, Major League Baseball revealed the Top 50 finalists for the MLB Fancave, including Dave Barclay, Toronto comedian and a huge fan of the Toronto Blue Jays. The winner of the competition will spend the 2012 baseball season in New York City watching all 2,430 Major League Baseball games on a large wall of big screen Sony televisions, and chronicling their experiences online with social media, blogs, and comedy videos made with some of MLB’s biggest stars, including Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista. 

To be considered for the cave, Dave submitted a 2,000 word essay and a video demonstrating that he is one of the most entertaining baseball fans in North America. This video is posted on MLBFanCave.com and fans can vote on it as their favourite. If Dave gets enough support and makes it into the Top 30, he will go to spring training in Arizona at the end of February and compete in a series of challenges to determine the final group of contestants.

Dave is a comedian who grew up in the GTA and currently lives in Toronto, and has a Blue Jays season’s pass. He co-hosts a podcast, Sunday Afternoon Baseball with Paul and Dave (sundayafternoonbaseball.blogspot.com) with Paul Frank and blogs at Sunday Afternoon Baseball Essays (sabessays.blogspot.com). Dave graduated from the Comedy Writing and Performance program at Humber College. He is a member of the vaudeville duo Parker and Seville and has been performing standup in Toronto for over six years.

Dave wrote and shot his video shortly after seeing the movie Inception, which heavily influenced his script. In the video Dave wakes up from a series of dreams where he is Jays Shortstop Yunel Escobar, a Cardinals fan, in a world where the Jays have won the world series (and his head explodes), and finally as an English Policeman or “Bobby.” 

Since the Top 50 were revealed, Dave has received support on Twitter from Jays fans from all over Canada (and beyond) hoping to put a Jays fan in the FanCave, inspiring the hashtag #daveforcave. He has received endorsements from Jonah Keri, writer of The Extra 2% and the website/quarterly Grantland, and Jays blogger Tao of Stieb, who blogs for Sportsnet and his own blog (taoofstieb.com). 

Dave can be followed on twitter (@davebarc) and you can vote for him at MLBFanCave.com. Voting closes on Wednesday, February 22nd.

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Contact: Dave Barclay at dpbarclay@gmail.com or 647-881-4489

Poster by Tracey MacIsaac (tmacphotography.com)