Sanchez is that guy right now. He’s the lightning rod. The player to overreact about. The latest object of our backspin/counter-spin obsession. Heaven knows I am not the person who can stay ahead of such a squiggly curve. I have no idea if he’s overrated or underrated because I don’t know how he is rated, or who rated him there. I don’t know what anyone else thinks of him, but I do know what everyone else thinks about everyone else’s opinion of him.
Everyone believes that everyone else has misjudged Sanchez, for better or worse. That makes me suspect that everyone is on about the same page and merely reacting to some warped perception of what “the masses” think. “Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, but I know better.” … “No one will give him his props, but I will.” There’s no bandwagon, and there are ample props. There’s no consensus, just a lot of people reacting to a perceived consensus, which in a way is its own consensus. Everyone agrees to disagree.
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