So do you want to Nick Lachey get the Byung-Hyun Kim treatment on the mound at Cheney Stadium?

Or do you want to see a trio of newspaper hacks swing for the fences and fall to the dirt?

Either way, it's for a good cause.

Lachey is heading to Tacoma this weekend to headline a celebrity softball game at Cheney on Sunday. It's one event during an entire weekend of fundraising for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Tacoma General Hospital.

But, really, enough about Nick. I'm sure you're really coming out to watch your three TNT staffers hard at work: Ryan "I'm one of three people from Montana who knows what a baseball is" Divish, Doug "I'm gonna play in a sweater vest" Pacey and yours truly -- Scott "I played an entire season of Little League and got one hit" Fontaine.

First pitch is at 10:30 a.m. General admission tickets are $15.

And remember: It's for the kids.

Click below to read the press release.

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As seen on a menu in Tacoma:

The utility workers arrived on Harleys, in pickup trucks and in cars. They cracked jokes with each other as they cleared dead trees from a campsite.

And after a day volunteering as part of the United Way’s Day of Caring, the trails at the Camp St. Albans outside Belfair are safer for the hundreds of Girl Scouts who use the camp each year.

“We’re out here to help,” supervisor Al Lehtimaki said, “but we also have a pretty good time.”

More than 1,100 Day of Caring volunteers from Pierce County – including almost 500 from the Tacoma School of the Arts – were expected to participate at different sites around the region Friday. Other jobs included landscaping, painting buildings and helping serve meals at a food bank.

The Tacoma Public Utilities workers visit the 414-acre Camp St. Albans between Belfair and Allyn each year. Previous projects included building bleachers around a firepit and creating trails through the woods to get to the site.

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If you’re interested in the various United Way Day of Caring project sites around the region, here they are:

L’Arche Tahoma Hope
Project Address: 12303 36th Ave East, Tacoma
Project: landscaping
Start time: 9 a.m.
Volunteers: State Farm Insurance
Number of Volunteer: 20

Boys & Girls Club - Gonyea Branch
Project Address: 5136 North 26th Street, Tacoma
Project: fall clean up - landscaping, painting, organizing, window washing, etc.; painting
Start time: 9 a.m.
Volunteers: Russell, Weyerhaeuser & Target
Number of Volunteer: 35

Point Defiance Park – Rose Garden & Five-Mile Drive
Project Address: 5400 North Shirley, Tacoma
Project: flower bed/rose garden maintenance; trail clean-up
Start time: 9 a.m.
Volunteers: School of the Arts & Johnson, Stone & Pagano, P.S.
Number of Volunteer: 35

Girl Scouts - Pacific Peaks Council
Address: Camp St. Albans, E 251 Lake Devereaux Rd, Belfair
Project: splitting & hauling wood; building benches
Volunteers: Tacoma Public Utilities
Number of Volunteer: 28

Helping Hand House
Address: 20915 120th St, Bonney Lake, WA 98390
Project: Remove all tagged trees/plants in yard, clean gutters, prune bushes, mow grass, edge lawn, pull weeds
Volunteers: Bank of America
Number of Volunteers: 14

I’ll be in Belfair this morning to cover the United Way’s Day of Caring. More than 1,100 volunteers – including 500 from Tacoma School of the Arts – will complete service projects throughout the area today. I'll cover volunteers from Tacoma Public Utilities splitting and hauling wood and building benches at the Girl Scout camp.