Time for Gary Sanchez to validate his frustrating Yankees existence

It’s always interesting and informative listening to fans speak of teams and players on the other side, especially during the playoffs. If you have friends who are Yankees fans and like to engage in text threads, it can be fun reading their on-the-run scouting reports of the Astros, for instance.

“Springer and Bregman are superheroes. (but we can get them out) …”

“Jose Altuve, man. He kills us. …”

“And don’t get me started about Correa. …”

“Verlander and Cole … ugh …”

“We can get in Greinke’s head. …”

On and on. A lot of times, a lack of familiarity is good, because it brings the essential, visceral emotions a fan feels to the surface: no filters, no editors, just real-time anxiety and real-time…