"Always celebrate the wins," in my eyes, means acknowledging that in most baseball games, very little can be accomplished. Sure, occasionally a win will clinch a playoff berth, or set a record...but most of the time they're just varying iterations of garden variety wins. Something special or awful can occur as you attempt to stack them together, but in the two or three hours that the game is played, only two things can happen: the team you're rooting for can win or lose.
When the Giants are eliminated from the postseason, I still take joy in the baseball games they win, even if they don't mean anything (whatever that means). When they're mired in a losing streak, I take joy in the baseball games they win, even if it's a tiny band-aid on shark bite.
I celebrated Pablo Sandoval's walk-off home run in the final game of the 2017 season, which bumped the Giants out of the top draft spot, cost them a chance to draft a decidedly mediocre Casey Mize, and instead forced them to draft future Pittsburgh Pirates superstar Joey Bart. Many people did not celebrate that win, and I understand that.
This year, there's a trend of people not celebrating wins. I hate to give any attention to negative Twitter users, which feels akin to keeping the camera on the streakers...
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