3 harsh realities Mets fans all wish weren’t true but are

3) Any trip to the playoffs for the Mets will not last long

Will the Mets even get to the postseason? It’s looking like they’ll have only the third Wild Card spot to claim. That’s not so bad. The 2022 and 2023 NL Pennant winners came from this third spot.

After all of the battling in August and September, to make it to the postseason and get bounced quickly would leave a bitter taste in our mouths. There will be second-guessing about whether it was worth buying at the trade deadline (it was and always will be). What about not buying enough?

The Mets haven’t shown the kind of life teams of destiny tend to at this point of the season. The red hot Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres are more in the realm of “get hot at the right time” while the Mets fall into the “peaked too early” category.

Can the Mets win a playoff series? Sure. Could they win a best of three series? Yep. But beyond one hard-fought battle on the road with a New York victory flag raised after, it’s tough to see the Mets competing alongside others.

The hot and cold nature of this year’s team is a harsh reality that isn’t going away anytime soon. This is the type of team that’ll feel like they won a championship just by getting to the postseason at all. Playing tired of late and without many of the hitters they need to perform doing much at all, way too much will need to change for the better for the Mets to do a thing in any playoff run they can make.