I guess it’s fitting that we have to wait until tonight for the Mets game in the final week of Sunday Night Baseball.

So much with the Mets is still so undetermined that it all feels like such a waiting game.

Today might as well be no different.

The difference is tonight when the Mets play we’ll at least have the clarity of knowing how everyone else performed.

But that doesn’t mean anything will be settled until a week from now.

Another way of framing this that I was thinking about on Friday is the fact that with the Jets playing on Thursday night and then not until next Sunday - it won’t be until the next time we see the Jets play that we’ll have any kind of clarity on the Mets’ post-season hopes.

It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around, but the Mets could go 4-3 the rest of the way, finish the season with 90 wins, and still not make the post-season.

It would require a Herculean effort by Atlanta - winning 6 of their last 7 - but we’ve seen them go on tears like that before.

I was thinking about 4-3 because I feel like that’s not even a bad outcome for the week ahead - assuming the Mets lose to the Phillies tonight - its not hard to imagine Wheeler out-pitching Megill - and giving the Mets series wins over Atlanta and Milwaukee to end the week.

That’s the problem here - everyone is playing well.

It’s hard for me to be too disappointed when David Peterson lays an egg on Friday night against Philadelphia and the Mets lose a game to the team tied for the best record in baseball - we’ve been spoiled by the Mets’ successes. But they can’t win every game.

Don’t get me wrong - I would love to see the Mets go on one last winning streak this final week.

Keep the Phillies from celebrating a division title at Citi Field…and send the fans home happy with a win in the final home game of the season.

Eliminate Atlanta from post-season contention with a sweep.

Jostle for wild card positioning in Milwaukee while Arizona and San Diego play each other out west.

But as Mets fans - we’re not exactly conditioned to believe that’s what’s going to happen.

The one thing that absolutely has to happen this week is the Mets taking at least two out of three from Atlanta. That’s the one thing they can control.

When they talk about the past couple of weeks being playoff baseball, that’s the most playoff-y series they’ve faced.

Taking two out of three from Atlanta (depending on how today’s results shake out) means all of the pressure is on Atlanta to win in their final three games against the Royals.

The Mets have it in their power to make things as uncomfortable as possible on Atlanta this final week of the season.

And they can ease some of that pressure on themselves with a win tonight.