Baseball Team Will Play Cool And Completely Unnecessary Glow-In-The-Dark 'Cosmic Baseball' Game

We're all familiar with cosmic bowling or glow bowling as it's sometimes known. That's where you go to a bowling alley and they shut off the normal lights, but crank up some black lights to give decals on the wall and the balls themselves an otherworldly glow, while ne'er-do-well teenagers use the darkness as cover for make-out seshes under the arcade's air hockey table.

Yeah, well someone saw that concept and said, "What if we tried that with baseball?"

The Tri-City Chili Peppers are based in Colonial Heights, Virginia and they play in the Coastal Plain League, a wood-bat collegiate summer league.

They unveiled a promo for a first-of-its-kind Cosmic Baseball game that would make the Savannah Bananas say "That seems a little gimmicky," and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.

How does… how does this work?

I understand how black lights work (well, I mean I know that you turn them on and stuff glows because of UV light; but I'm not sure how or why it happens. I have a communications degree, so cut me some slack), but does this mean that they have to swap the normal stadium light bulbs out for black lights?

If that's the case, I'm shocked that they make a black light bulb that can crank out enough lumens (that's an impressive word for a dude with a communications degree… if I used it right) to cover the entire stadium.

The mad scientists at the Tri-City Chili Peppers have figured this all out, otherwise they wouldn't have announced to the world that Cosmic Baseball was a go. It's not the sort of thing you announce and then just figure out later.

This could turn out to be a really cool idea for fans. Now, I'd be a little nervous getting into the batter's box, but I don't need to worry about that, do I?

The Chili Peppers will play a handful of Cosmic Baseball games — with them and their opponents wearing glowing uniforms — on  June 1, 15, and 28, as well as July 20.