By Brad Brain
The Toronto Blue Jays won the American League Baseball Championship and advanced to the World Series. They came from behind to beat the Seattle Mariners, and the game was amazing.
Prior to the clinching game the baseball community had no shortage of opinions on who was going to win, and why. Many baseball experts thought Seattle would prevail, and they trotted out their rationale to justify their opinion. Star players, depth of the bullpen, earned run averages, slugging percentages, etc.
All these opinions make for entertaining discussions amongst sports fans, but so what? The Blue Jays won. They advance. Seattle goes home. Everything else is just talk.
Now that the game is done, all of those pontifications and prognostications and micro-analysis are just memories. Results on the field are what wins baseball games, not people talking about it.
Just like with sports, in the financial world people love to talk about the game.