The Phillies made the World Series — why some say that means a stock market crash may be next

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History suggests that Philadelphia baseball teams tend to win the World Series around the same time as economic downturns. Here’s what the facts say.

That’s because there’s been a curious — if rather weak — relationship over the past century between World Series titles for Philadelphia baseball teams and financial-market meltdowns. And the Phillies just made it to the 2022 World Series.So the Phillies’ win against the San Diego Padres on Sunday night, punching the Philadelphia team’s ticket to the Series beginning this Friday, had some folks pondering the prospect of a historical repeat.

Hogan noted that there are so many different players impacting stock-market performance — including economic data, politics and impacts from the lingering COVID pandemic, to name just a few — that a single baseball team’s performance is never going to be a game changer. “The market has many more participants, and it’s impossible to erase all of that just because of a best-out-of-seven-game series coming up this week,” he said.

 

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So what you’re saying is the Fed Chairman has more to do with their success than their General Manager? The Phillies should be renamed The Recessions.

Having grown up a Phillies fan, only to have adopted the A's, this one by PesceNic got me

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