The perspective of that picture on the left skews the sizes of the TVs a little bit…but the way the Mets have been playing had them on the smaller TV Thursday night with the Rangers in Game 6 on the bigger TV.

(Though for most of the night it wasn’t like the Rangers were exactly earning that bigger TV distinction.)

Though the Mets TV there is in front, it is indeed smaller and I do not put the sound as high as the other TV.

That’s what I think the Mets deserve right now.

This was a disappointing week of games with Philadelphia.

It comes on the heels of a disappointing weekend against Atlanta…which came a week after a disappointing weekend against the Rays.

Other than two games against the equally struggling St. Louis Cardinals, this has not been a fun time to watch the Mets.

Monday night was frustrating in two parts: Edwin Diaz blew the save (there was a missed check swing call in that inning too, so maybe it was in three parts)…but it should never have been a save opportunity because the Mets had a chance to put the game away early and with nobody out and the bases loaded in the third inning they gave away three at bats with three straight strikeouts.

Tuesday was frustrating because the Mets did literally nothing against Aaron Nola, allowing him to pitch a complete game shutout that came dangerously close to being a perfect game.

Wednesday I admit I missed a lot of because I was out but then I chose not to watch the rest of it to save my mental health. But it was not a good game for the Mets.

Thursday came with its own frustrations - Edwin Diaz blew another save, the Mets had a chance to have a big 11th inning and couldn’t get more big hits - but the game ended on a happy note with an extra innings win, and Jose Quintana had a solid start after some real clunkers.

The thing about these struggles is there hasn’t been one moment I’ve doubted Carlos Mendoza. He’s made great moves, put players in the right spots in the right moments…and the players have consistently underperformed.

Pete Alonso is finally out of his slump…but it seems like everyone behind him is not hitting. (And then there are guys like Omar Narvaez who have done nothing ever.)

I like that there have been some changes - good bye, Joey Wendle. But guys need to start doing something before this becomes a repeat of last year.

It’s been a rough stretch.

Phour Against The Phillies: 1-3

Overall Record: 20-23

Standings: 4th place, 10 games back of Philadelphia. The state of affairs right now is that I’m going to have to start putting this in terms of the wild card soon instead of the division.

Up Next: The Mets have three games in Miami this weekend. They need a sweep to get themselves feeling good again, I would think.

I’ll add here that was an amazing Rangers comeback tonight - they scored the go-ahead goal right when Edwin Diaz let in the game-tying run, for what that’s worth. They’ve been out-talenting the opposition most of this playoffs. Tonight they out-gritted the Hurricane in that third period.

And thank goodness because I wasn’t ready for a winner-take-all Saturday night and the possibility of facing the Mets’ mediocrity with no Rangers for this next month. On to the Eastern Conference Finals there.

Let’s Go Mets. And Let’s Go Rangers.