L.D. (From Seaver to Seattle)

there is evidently a raccoon running around in the stands at the Twins game

The Pitt not throwing in an Andrew McCutchen reference during their July 4 Pittsburgh season WHICH FEATURES A FURRY is such an oversight. The kind of thing I could've fixed for them for one hour of work and a reasonable $25,000 fee. But if the show doesn't want to be accurate, I can't help them

Pyramid in the style of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, divided into five colored sections. From bottom to top, the sections are: "complete annual infield replacement", "26-man pitching rotation", "Netflix documentary", "Cora extension", and "layoffs".

I call this one "Breslow's Hierarchy of Needs"

I got burned by Part 1 when I posted it as well. it's incredible how fast the turnaround on people disappointing me is

okay,

Bob Nightengale © @BNightengale • 1m Three of the game's greatest HR hitters: Aaron Judge, Cal Raleigh and Tarik Skubal [picture of Judge, Raleigh and Schwarber]

this is why he's the fucking GOAT

don't be surprised if some of your favorite baseball stars wind up playing major league baseball this season. i guarantee you that this very minute, big-league teams are beating feet all across the country – and beyond – as they look to fill their rosters with the very best ballplayers they can get

not sure why it's broken down this way specifically but I will take it

In 1953, Toni Stone became the first woman to play professional baseball in a major men's league, showing immense courage in the face of overt racism and sexism.

More Women's History Month spotlights: https://info.sports-reference.com/whm-spotlights

if you are one of those people, this is not a dig at you; I earnestly want more people to talk about what they love about baseball, hence my request! it is, however, very funny to do it by telling me I left something out of my own personal non-exhaustive list of what I love about baseball

readers! I am mulling over writing a "100 Things Other People Love About Baseball" piece (as plenty of people have told me what I apparently left out of *my* list). if YOU have something you love about baseball that I evidently didn't love enough to put on my own list, please tell me in the replies!

it's been in the works for far too long, so I hope that Part 2 can be a bright spot for you amidst the perpetual nightmare cycle that is the rest of the world: seatoseabaseball.com/100-things-i...

oh no

Julio slapped Junior Caminero's head so hard after his home run that it actually made me laugh

looks like it www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/03/joha...

Cole Young's improved defense has been a storyline for me this spring. Look at how much ground he covers on this bunt, turning on the burners when he realizes neither the pitcher nor the first baseman can get there, and then barehands the catch.

Soto has reintroduced the shuffle for the WBC exhibition game :)

criminal for a Jefry Yan game to not be televised!!

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...

he will do What now

screenshot of a tweet from the texas rangers baseball team depicting a statute of jay banks, a notorious texas ranger law man

the texas rangers just put up a statue of a man (jay banks) well-known for trying to keep schools in texas segregated, despite the passing of brown v. board of education. the statue was originally at dallas’ love field airport before being removed in 2020 (remember those times? lol)

what does he think they are sacrificing

i would lay down a bunt for my country

esp. given all the coverage about how they wanted Nimmo to come be a mentor to their younger players and help them stay on the field, which implies that Semien (notably great at playing consistently) would not be a good mentor, when he seems to be viewed as one outside the org. surely not racist!

technically they just non-tendered García, and they still have Higashioka, but... well, they made sure to swap Semien for a white Trump voter, so it's not great

Rangers unveil 'One Riot, One Ranger' statue addition at Globe Life Field The Texas Rangers on Monday announced a permanent statue addition to the left field concourse at Globe Life Field. The “One Riot, One Ranger” statue, which has a lengthy history in Dallas-Fort Worth, ...

Cool new statue, Texas Rangers!

Don't worry, no one will go to the Wikipedia page for it to see why it's not at the airport anymore. www.mlb.com/news/rangers...

beginning to suspect the team with an almost exclusively white roster might have some racist tendencies

The Horrible Truth of Love Field’s Texas Ranger Statue A new book about the Texas Rangers tells the truth about that famous bronze at Love Field and a 1930 lynch mob in Sherman. An excerpt from Cult of Glory.

Here's a good story about the statue of a racist cop the Texas Rangers are putting up at their stadium in the year 2026. www.dmagazine.com/publications...

very interested to see if the Johan Rojas rumors become more concretely substantiated