If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.
What are we out at the park for except to win?
Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.