{"id":630110,"date":"2026-03-18T14:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630110\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:46:16","slug":"after-the-fact-how-do-you-feel-about-the-wbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630110\/","title":{"rendered":"After the fact, how do you feel about the WBC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, it\u2019s over now. Venezuela wins, Team USA is the runner-up once again, Japan shockingly wasn\u2019t in either of those prior clauses, and we\u2019re stuck with Spring Training for about another week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Did this WBC change your opinion of the event? Was it better, or worse, than you expected?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I was pretty meh on the pool play format given two teams of five advancing in each pool, which felt like it was going to water down the proceedings a bit\u2026 but I ended up really enjoying the days of wall-to-wall pool play. Team Italy was a hilarious development that mostly kept on giving. I wish the Netherlands had better pitching. So, yeah, I had a good time. Pure Spring Training will seem extra-awful by comparison. What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, it\u2019s over now. Venezuela wins, Team USA is the runner-up once again, Japan shockingly wasn\u2019t in either&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73299,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-630110","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630110","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=630110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}