As I was driving home one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. 

As I sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was. 

“We’re behind 14 to nothing,” he answered with a smile on his face. 

“Really,” I said. “I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.” 

“Discouraged?” the boy asked with a puzzled look. “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.”