I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

