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MLB Lockout: Players Get Pizza Jobs at Papa John's

It's a gimmick designed to catch the attention of Major League Baseball fans. And it's worked.

Two players from the World Series-winning Atlanta Braves team are "changing jobs'' as the MLB lockout trudges on.

This week, the pizza restaurant jokingly tweeted that it is offering "daily contracts'' to any MLB players with "too much time on your hands these days." And shortstop Dansby Swanson and outfielder Joc Pederson have signed up to be Papa John's new "pre-season pizza pros."

The event - and that's what is was - was held at a metro Atlanta Papa Johns and was not open to the public.