It’s been an interesting first three-quarters of the regular season for the Mets, with fun distractions such as “OMG” and Grimace and idiotic ones such as Hawk Tuah Girl that show until proven otherwise, the Mets are still the Mets.

They can take a step toward legitimacy over the next six weeks.

Because in this final sprint towards the playoffs, the Mets will show who they really are.

After losing their first five games of the year and then storming back to finish April with a winning record, the Mets had a horrific May, going 9-19. The roller coaster continued in June as they went 16-8. July was also good, but getting manhandled last weekend in Seattle and losing a midweek series at Citi Field to the A’s was alarming.