Omen in the NY Mets schedule seemed to predict the worst possible outcome this week

SNY’s Mets X account posted an image of the New York Mets' opponents in their final 19 games of the regular season, and one thing stood out: “PTSD”. Not only do the Mets have to close the season playing teams with winning records in four of their final six series, but the Marlins and Nationals are never easy wins, especially considering they close out the season in Miami. 

Some Met fans have taken it a step further, insinuating that this entire graphic is a cryptic message, adding that the bottom row of "WCM" means wild card miss. With or without a tin foil hat, the Mets have put themselves in a playoff push that may take all 162 games yet again.

Thinking the 2024 NLCS run, bolstered by signing Juan Soto, would ease the tension is a massive understatement. Met fans greet the fear of late-season collapses like an old friend. Every year, when summer turns to fall, the Mets are tested, and fans can never truly feel relief until their magic number turns to zero. The ghosts of the late 2000s hang over this franchise every losing streak and every blown lead like a fever they can't sweat out, no matter how many times they try to prove this year is different.

Will this omen come to pass for the 2025 New York Mets?

Coming off their fifth loss in six games in another brutal outing from Sean Manaea, the Mets find themselves with a slim two-game lead over the San Francisco Giants for the final Wild Card Spot. While it started as a joke, the PTSD of another potential collapse is starting to become very real.

Throughout this stretch, the Mets have not been able to have a complete game from top to bottom. After getting three decent starts in a row by their young rookie pitchers, who gave up seven runs over a combined 17.1 innings, they were greeted with a whopping three runs of support. Fans couldn’t help but get flashbacks of Jacob deGrom getting no run support, as if we don’t have enough PTSD already.

There is a silver lining: the Mets control their destiny. When they are playing at their best, they have proven they can beat the league’s best. And at their worst, they will watch their playoff hopes die at the hands of the Marlins playing spoiler, as if the baseball gods want a whole new generation of Met fans to relive 2007 all over again