Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster Jamie Campbell is just looking to have a conversation — or maybe, many of them.
In a tradition that’s been running for a few years now, longtime Sportsnet employee Campbell is asking Blue Jays fans to mail a note to the Sportsnet office if they are feeling lonely or isolated this winter.
If you know a @BlueJays fan who might be isolated/lonely this winter, mail their name, number, best time to call to my attention:
c/o Sportsnet,
1 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto, Ontario,
M4Y 3A1.
Can’t guarantee a call, but will try! Will NOT respond to DM requests.— Jamie Campbell (@SNETCampbell) November 8, 2024
Fans are asked to send their contact info via mail c/o Sportsnet to 1 Mount Pleasant Road in Toronto, Ontario, with an M4Y 3A1 postal code and can expect a possible phone call in return.
Back in June, Campbell spoke to Sean Fitz-Gerald for Toronto Met University magazine — put out by his alma mater — about why he began calling fans in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
“It’s basically using the power of my platform – which I could never have imagined chasing back in my days at TMU,” he said to Fitz-Gerald. “What I was chasing then was a career as a sports broadcaster. I could never have envisioned, all these years, that it’s way more than just a means to making a living.”
Campbell, who joined the network in 1998 when it was known as CTV Sportsnet, says it’s a nice way to give back to the fanbase.
“We actually FaceTimed a 93-year-old lady,” said Campbell in June. “She is suffering from dementia and doesn’t speak much anymore, but she recognizes baseball on her television. And as soon as her granddaughter connected us, I could see in her face she knew exactly who I was.”
While he’ll surely be around for some spring training coverage, Campbell and the Jays broadcast return for the games that count start on March 27, when Toronto hosts the Baltimore Orioles for their 2025 home opener.
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