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Do you prefer music, baseball or football? Well, two out of three ain’t bad -- and you could catch the Patriots game on the TVs in the Paradise Rock Club’s front lounge Saturday.

The back room will be rocking with one of the strongest lineups yet in the Hot Stove Cool Music series to benefit Epstein and his brother’s Foundation To Be Named Later.

As usual, the former Red Sox GM and Brookline native will be wielding his guitar in an all-star jam with renowned baseball writer Peter Gammons, Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz and ex-Letters to Cleo singer Kay Hanley as well as Seth Justman (J. Geils Band) and Robin Lane. But it’s the rest of the locally connected talent that staggers.

Norwell-bred soul-blues singer Susan Tedeschi will appear along with her husband and bandmate Derek Trucks, who also plays in the Allman Brothers Band and was just named No. 16 on Rolling Stone’s list of the Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Providence’s young, rowdy roots-rockers Deer Tick should liven up the proceedings along with upstart Boston band Mean Creek. And don’t forget the Remains, our great ‘60s garage band that opened for the Beatles. Boston-bred actor Mike O’Malley (“Glee,” “Yes, Dear”) will emcee.*

They’ll be a lot of back-and-forth action at the ‘Dise (not that the Patriots should give any charity to Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos). Also, for baseball types, Epstein will be back to Fenway Park Jan. 30 for a Sports Roundtable that includes new Sox GM Ben Cherington, manager Bobby Valentine and moderator Gammons in the park’s State Street Pavilion.