post hoc ergo prompter hoc

All About Baseball with Byron Copley · Nov 6, 2025 · 12m

This Latin phrase, translated to In English, means "after, therefore because of it." This fallacy in logic is all too often applied to the outcome of sporting events . It's been never more prevalent than in the circumstances of the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 2025 World Series where Isiah Kiner-Falefa was forced out at home by a literal inch, denying the Blue Jays what would have been the winning run and a World Series championship. This podcast reminds us that asking "what if" (Kiner-Falefa had taken a bigger lead) introduces an entirely new chain of events that no one can predict. Yet…