Yorkshire all-rounder Gavin Hamilton and Warwickshire slow left-armer Ashley Giles may be a little dispirited - they end the tour having failed to figure in a single one-day game.
South Africa did their utmost against a dispirited French side to seal a place in the last 16, but it was not to be as they finished level on four points with Mexico but three goals worse off than El Tri.
And for a lot of Democrats who've been kind of dispirited, even as Republicans are in trouble, Al Gore makes them feel like they could potentially be on offense.