What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
“The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.”
“American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.”