HOUSTON — You know what the Yankees saw when they looked across the field Thursday night at Minute Maid Park? A baseball team that they can never be, can’t ever be. Nor ever even aspire to be.
Now that’s not necessarily a bad thing, right? Only a fool, given the chance to swap the teams’ histories, would agree to do that. The Yankees have won 27 championships since 1923. The Astros have won zero since 1962. The Astros have been to one World Series. The Astros look at the Mets’ history, sigh, and mutter, “Why can’t that be us?