Out With '18, In With '19

Though our losses outnumber our wins
and our forfeitures outpace our pins
and our outs have the jump on our ins,
once again, the megillah* begins.
     * Some mss show "Armageddon" here.
Which reading will prove definitive? As Lucky
says in Waiting for Godot, …"time will tell...
quaquaqua…"