Go Phillies, anyway.
Brings back memories...
Posted on 10/27/2022 3:27:07 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
The Philadelphia Phillies are in the World Series. Hold on to your wallets.
When Philadelphia baseball teams do well, in a pattern that has held for a century, financial markets tend to strike out. It started with the old Philadelphia Athletics (before they left town). Their 1929 championship preceded the stock crash and Great Depression. In 1980, the Phillies won their first World Series, and a recession raged right through 1983, when the team again got to the final round and lost. The Phils won the World Series a second time in 2008, and boom: a home-run financial crisis.
Now, the scrappy Phils will be back on the big stage against the favored Houston Astros, and it is as if this struggling economy already knew it was going to be in trouble.
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Go Phillies, anyway.
Coworker from Philly said if the Phillies win they are going to tear that town up. I asked her how would you know???
HOUSTON - Houston ‘s own Mattress Mack could win the largest payout in sports betting history this World Series. The Space City resident James McIngvale, also known as Mattress Mack, has put $10 of his own money on the line to win a total of $75 million if the Houston Astros win The Fall Classic.
I doubt that. Perhaps a few very small neighborhoods.
You’ll see white people downtown.
The Asterisks need to go back to the National League where they belong.
You sure he didn't bet more than that?
I know a guy who still has his 1964 Phillies World Series tickets framed. Needless to say, everyone in Philly remembers what happened that year.
It’ll look like Rwanda Redux.
88% of the country wants the Phillies to win. (And only six states: Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Colorado)
If they lose, there will be a riot.
The odd thing is that the colored community doesn't follow baseball. It is no longer a sport which American colored people are interested in. It's because there are too few opportunities for brutal gangsta behavior as there are in the NBA and NFL.
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Thanks DoodleBob. You should send those to that lunatic in Ohio, Dr. Frank.
Ha, good catch.
I copied/ pasted from a local fox news station.... go figure?
This made local Austin news this am.
He really bet 10 million.
This guy is a local freak. Super rich.
He makes crazy bets like this all the time.
See the correlation? Lol
ROFL!
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