Even Colin Cowherd made a depressing point about Yankees that fans must agree with

Sometimes someone looks you right in the face and tells you a hard truth. Something that, deep down in your heart, you know to be true but have long avoided reckoning with. That's what Colin Cowherd just did to the New York Yankees.

Sure, Cowherd is known as a provocateur. Along with Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith, he's the TV/radio version of clickbait. That doesn't mean his recent comments are wrong, though.

The cold, hard truth he laid on the Yankees is that they're simply not that good. And when it comes to the postseason, his arguments are compelling.

Colin Cowherd lays down the hard truth that even Yankees fans have to agree with

Supporting his argument, Cowherd pointed out the fact that the Yankees are just 3-10 in series against clubs from any division other than the AL Central since their last championship in 2009. Against those AL Central teams, the Yankees are 8-2.

Why separate out the AL Central? Well, those teams typically have the lowest payrolls in baseball, so no matter how well they develop talent, they'll always be at a disadvantage against a financial Goliath like the Yankees.

But when the Yankees try to pick on someone their own size? Well, as Cowherd points out, it typically doesn't go well.

The matchup against Toronto, in some ways, was the battle of the superstars. Aaron Judge and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. duked it out, both performing at incredibly high levels. However, Vladdy was without his partner in crime, Bo Bichette, and it didn't matter. Lesser-known guys like Ernie Clement, Nathan Lukes, and Alejandro Kirk, among others, stepped up.

Meanwhile, as Judge looked around, all he could find was clowns to the left of him and jokers to his right. His own sidekick, Giancarlo Stanton, who admittedly was so good during last year's run to the World Series, went just 4-for-15 with no extra-base hits against Toronto.

Anthony Volpe, who would count as more of a peripheral player in the same vein as a Nathan Lukes or Ernie Clement type, posted historically bad strikeout numbers. Trent Grisham, Cody Bellinger, Ben Rice were mostly absent, too. The whole lineup was, essentially.

Then there's the other side of the equation: simply being good at baseball. The Jays made all the routine plays and then some. For all the Yankees' struggles offensively, it was Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s defensive gaffe that was their ultimate undoing.

The story was the same in last year's World Series, as the fundamentals were ultimately what tripped up the Yankees the most.

The bottom line is, good teams don't beat themselves. Period. They put pressure on their opponents to make costly mistakes. But when you look out over the last 16 years, one thing is crystal clear about the Yankees in October. They beat themselves.

Every time the bats go silent, the strikeouts skyrocket, the defense fails them, and the bullpen crumbles, it's the Yankees, once again, beating themselves. Until they stop tripping over their own two feet under the bright October lights, they can't be considered a good team. And Colin Cowherd is 100% right about that, and you can't deny it.