{"id":626553,"date":"2026-03-16T15:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/626553\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:12:36","slug":"play-the-battery-power-bracket-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/626553\/","title":{"rendered":"Play the Battery Power Bracket Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening Day isn\u2019t until next week. What can we do while the Braves put their roster together? Personally, I\u2019m going to figure out my NCAA bracket. Beats working, that\u2019s for sure. Want to join us? We have a tournament bracket every year. If you want to spend three minutes (or three days) playing along, please join our group.<\/p>\n

The link to our group<\/a> is here. The group name is 2026 Battery Power Bracket Challenge. The password is alexverdugo. It takes 3 minutes. But the joy lasts a lifetime, or until two of your Final Four loses. That\u2019s all there is to it. You have until the first game tips off on Thursday at around noon Eastern.<\/p>\n

There are people in our community that are good at this. I am not one of them. Ivan had a strangehold on this for a little while. But tournament basketball is pretty random. Some random schools that you\u2019ve never seen are gonna shoot 60% from three-point range in the first round. One school you have seen is going to choke. It\u2019s all part of the fun.<\/p>\n

The Braves have an off day on Thursday. I have a feeling that we\u2019ll have a serious culling of the Spring Training roster then. In the meantime, come watch some basketball with us. You won\u2019t do any worse than me, unless you\u2019re really trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening Day isn\u2019t until next week. What can we do while the Braves put their roster together? Personally,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73299,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-626553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-discussion","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116239504325340666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626553","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=626553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}