As I opened up my emails this morning, I came across this in my daily Morning Brew Newsletter

Good morning. Are we about to enter an economic crisis? Could be. But don’t look at unemployment, interest rate hikes, or the housing market for clues. A better indicator is whether the Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series.

As the baseball historians on the Brew’s social media team found, over the past 100 years the surest sign of an economic downturn has been a Philly-based baseball team winning the World Series. It happened in 1929, 1930, 1980, and 2008. On Monday night, the Phillies clinched a playoff spot for the upcoming postseason.

As Phillies fans, it gives us no pleasure to say this, but…they must be stopped. For the sake of the economy.

- Neal Freyman, Max Knoblauch, Abby Rubenstein