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Attention fellow WBC Team USA haters: They will be eliminated if Mexico wins and scores four or fewer runs.

The leading theory I saw was Eli White thought it was too far away from Harris to have to worry about calling for it.

Fun fact: The sun at CoolToday Park is actually 50% brighter than any other place on earth.

Spencer Strider picks off Chandler Simpson at first.

Spencer Strider just struck out the side, he also hit 96.5 mph in the first inning.

Michael Harris runs over Eli White in the outfield. White still made the catch and stayed in the game.

Matt Olson crushes his third home run of the spring off the batter's eye

Watching people celebrate the Braves launching the exact same service as was available last year, but for more money (streaming was available through Amazon for as cheap as $75 for the whole season in 2025) has been the strangest thing to witness.

Braves.TV is here! Stream over 140 regular season Braves games in-market with NO BLACKOUTS! Visit braves.com/watch for all info.

[Braves] Braves.TV is here!

Stream over 140 regular season Braves games in-market with NO BLACKOUTS! Visit braves.com/watch for all info.

Julio Teheran has retired.

In other news, you're getting old.

Ben Ingram lets out a "dear lord" after signing off for the commercial break when the Braves narrowly avoid blowing a 9-5 lead in the ninth inning

Israel has been eliminated from the WBC

There's only one team atop the Grapefruit League standings and it's the Atlanta Braves.

And thus, spring training matters again.

The game ends on a Braves challenge with the Blue Jays down by four and the bases loaded

Washington Nationals' president of business operations Jason Sinnarajah announces lower price beer options during spring training in-game interview

First pitch Clayton Kershaw threw post retirement was hit for a home run by Mickey Moniak.

Braves legend Julio Teheran currently doing an interview.

Braves legend Julio Teheran currently doing an interview.

Isaac Gallegos (Braves pitcher) enters the game to pitch for Colombia with the bases loaded and nearly gets out of the jam, but Gio Urshela makes a throwing error that scores two for the Braves

Today's Braves spring training game vs. Colombia is available on Gray TV and also for free on MLB.tv

MLB announces that Atlanta OF Jurickson Profar has been suspended the entire season after testing positive for Exogenous Testosterone and its metabolites, a performance enhancing substance. The suspension begins Friday. He will not receive his $15 million salary

HE NEVER SAY THAT

Ronald Acuña Jr. tries to challenge a pitch, but there's no ABS in the WBC

Juan Soto gives the Dominican Republic the lead with a 2-run blast

Phillies’ Johan Rojas facing an 80-game suspension for PED violation Rojas tested positive for a PED in the offseason and is appealing the results of the test. He is no longer on the D.R. roster for the WBC.

Johan Rojas is facing an 80-game suspension from MLB for a failed PED test during the offseason. He is appealing. Here’s what we know: www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

Aaron Judge's 2-run single gives team USA the lead over the Giants

The Netherlands' WBC lineup is incredible when you realize most of them are from a small island with a population of only 185,000 people.

What every election probably feels like if you're a conservative

[Passan] Sources: Braves' Profar faces 162-game ban, 2nd PED violation

That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating. This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education: Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.

The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield. Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling. As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students. That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.

The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium. When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions: Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks? Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light? Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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