{"id":627520,"date":"2026-03-17T04:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/627520\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:38:17","slug":"kansas-city-coffee-shop-celebrates-royals-players-competing-for-team-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/627520\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City coffee shop celebrates Royals players competing for Team Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KSHB 41 reporter Isabella Ledonne reports on stories in Overland Park, Johnson County and topics about government accountability. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kshb.com\/news\/local-news\/kansas\/johnson-county\/mailto:isabella.ledonne@kshb.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Share your story idea with Isabella<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Need a pick-me-up? Team Italy in the World Baseball Classic has an idea.<\/p>\n<p>The team has gone viral on social media for their home-run espresso shots in the dugout, which includes Kansas City Royals stars Vinnie Pasquantino and Jac Caglianone. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773722283_529_.jpeg\" alt=\"Espresso shots\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>World Baseball Classic<\/p>\n<p>As a way to celebrate the Italian-Americans from Kansas City, Parisi Coffee is offering buy one get one free espresso shots, two for one online purchases of the Roma Espresso blend and &#8216;The Pasquaglione&#8217; espresso martini. <\/p>\n<p>Parisi Coffee&#8217;s head of marketing explained the drink specials are an antipasto to the World Cup coming to the metro in a few months. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773722285_460_.jpeg\" alt=\"Tonya Mangels\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Al Miller<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s giving us a chance to celebrate baseball season before spring training and it&#8217;s unique,&#8221; Tonya Mangels said. &#8220;I think it would be amazing if Team Italy meets Team USA in the finals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team Italy takes on Team Venezuela on Monday night to see who competes against Team USA on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kshb.com\/news\/local-news\/kansas\/johnson-county\/mailto:isabella.ledonne@kshb.com?subject=Contact Isabella Ledonne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ISABELLABEATFSV1.png\" alt=\"Isabella Ledonne\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KSHB 41 reporter Isabella Ledonne reports on stories in Overland Park, Johnson County and topics about government accountability.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[27651,5,44892,80594,27454,64491,80595,231,936,2123,55,2596,2595,5717,4,80543,252,80596],"class_list":{"0":"post-627520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-accountability","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-consumer","11":"tag-drink-specials","12":"tag-in-depth","13":"tag-isabella-ledonne","14":"tag-italia","15":"tag-jac-caglianone","16":"tag-kansas","17":"tag-kansas-city","18":"tag-kansas-city-royals","19":"tag-kansascity","20":"tag-kansascityroyals","21":"tag-kc-royals","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-parisi-coffee","24":"tag-royals","25":"tag-royals-on-team-italy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116242671573104020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}