MESA, Ariz. -- Cubs second baseman Mike Fontenot will do what only he can do, and that is play himself, in an episode of the TBS show "My Boys," to be shot this week at HoHoKam Park.

The show focuses on a Chicago female sportswriter named P.J., who is played by actress Jordana Spiro. Fontenot's storyline focuses on his TV girlfriend trying to make him jealous by flirting with one of P.J.'s friends.

Fontenot made sure his real girlfriend read the script first.

"I ran it past her," Fontenot said. "I read every part -- I had the script at the house. I was going through and reading the dialogue between my girlfriend on the show and myself. It was funny. She knows all about it."

The script isn't very complimentary to Fontenot's TV girlfriend.

"Reading the script, [the TV girlfriend] says, 'He's always baseball this and baseball that. I just want to make him jealous,'" Fontenot said.

His real girlfriend isn't like that at all, he said.

This isn't Fontenot's first foray into acting. He also was part of a public service announcement last year with Ryan Dempster, Geovany Soto and Mark DeRosa that featured a flying "monobrow."

Teammate Micah Hoffpauir also will get a little TV exposure. Another of P.J.'s male friends says he can strike out a big league ballplayer, and she arranges it so he can throw to Hoffpauir. Let's just say Hoffpauir connects every time.

Shooting will be Tuesday during the Cubs' game against Colorado at HoHoKam, and again on Wednesday, an off-day for the team. The episode will be the series finale for the show, which begins its third season this year.

"Hopefully, the lines are easy enough," Fontenot said. "I looked at them once or twice. They're little five-word one-liners. Hopefully, I'll do OK. It'll be a good experience.

"They called and asked me, and I said of course. I think it's pretty cool."