The Mets had a chance to sweep the lowly Marlins at home on Sunday, but fell 3-2 in the series finale to fall two games back of the final Wild Card spot after the Braves won their second straight.
Gio, who has been reluctant to fully buy into the up-and-down Mets all season, compared this year’s group to a Greek myth during Monday morning’s show.
“It always feels like, when you’re starting to build momentum with the Mets and thinking maybe they aren’t done, then something like [Sunday] happens,” Gio said.
“They’re right there. They’re two games out...but the problem is, it’s like the legend of Sisyphus. Sisyphus was punished, and his punishment was he rolled a rock, a giant boulder, up a hill, and the second he was about to get that rock to the top of the hill, it rolled all the way back to the bottom. That is the 2024 Mets.”
Are the Mets like a punished tyrant doomed to spend the rest of his life (or in this case, the team’s season) coming oh-so close to a playoff spot, only to slip backward each time? The Mets are still trying to finish the climb to solidify a playoff spot, and if they don’t find some consistency over the final six weeks of the season, they may find themselves at the bottom of the hill once again.