If you enjoy baseball with a game show twist, Comcast SportsNet Chicago is about to step up to the plate with a brand new original show "The Batter's Box".

The new show pits 8 White Sox & 8 Cub fans in quite a baseball trivia game that'll premiere Sunday, July 1st with CSN's Luke Stuckmeyer serving as host. Sorry...Wink Martindale wasn't available.

Anyway, the contestants for CSN's version of "The Box" were selected last month during a 2-day casting call last month. The 8 Cub & Sox fans will compete every Sunday afternoon in a tournament that will air every Sunday for 15 consecutive weeks until a Champion is announced Sunday, October 7th on the regional sports network.

The rules of the "Box" are fairly simple. They are multiple choice baseball trivia questions about their favorite teams. They can select based on level of difficulty, such as "Single" for an easy question, a "Double" for a more challenging one, a "Triple" for a very hard or a "Home Run" for an extremely hard question. Just like in an actual game, correct answers mean advancing runners around the bases, and the player who scores the most runs after 3 innings advances to the next round.

Contestants will be competing for quite a "GameDay Experience of a Lifetime". That's a grand prize of tickets to an undetermined White Sox game at U.S. Cellular Field or Cubs' game at Wrigley Field next year, complete with meeting the Sox or Cubs' announcers and a rare visit to the CSN production truck, along with watching the game from a luxury suite.

If that's now enough, home viewers can also get in the game for a chance to win prizes as well. After each "Box" episode, CSNChicago.com will post a trivia question on its Web site. Out of all the correct answers posted, CSN will announce a different winner at random every week. He/she will also win prizes.

CSN's own version of "The Batter's Box" is based on a similar show that has been a hit on NESN for 2 seasons now, and the show's Boston-based producers, StarPilot Productions, are already hard at work on a third season of the hit baseball trivia game show that'll air later this summer out East.

Is this from Larz' site? I read an almost identically worded post from him on his site today. Why not just quote him directly if this is his story? If this is conincidental, I apologize for the inference.

I will give it a chance, I like sports trivia..always liked stump the schwaub

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Nice work, Sipowicz.

So what if he pasted that article? It was news to me and Shark is probably the nicest guy who posts on this site and does nothing but provide information and a bad look a like comparisons now n then... and for some reason there are about a dozen douche bags who break his balls non stop..why?

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He's tough. Stumping ESPN's Howie Schaub was easier said than done. They could've done much better than Stuart "Booyah Boy" Scott as host. Then again, I've seen enough of Chris Berman, too.