Maybe you should have 90 percent of your money in a carefully laddered portfolio of bank CDs and the rest in a conservative equity fund. In the end, the thing that matters most to baseball teams is the score. With the rare exception of ties, every game produces a winner and a loser. After the game is over, it's apparent who won and who lost. It's in the numbers.
Baseball players watch the score every minute of the game.
They know the statistics, the batting rotation on both sides, the strengths and weaknesses of both teams. They know what it means to be down by four runs in the eighth inning. But they also know that the only score that really matters is the final score. The best teams may get discouraged, disheartened, disillusioned. But they don't give up.