Mets fans feeling miserable as club continues downward spiral

Misery. That’s the word George Nagy, 64, of Highland Park used to highlight how he feels as a Mets fan right now.

It’s hard to blame him. After the Mets were swept by the Chicago Cubs in a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday, their losing streak extended to five games and their record dropped to 34-46.

As an embarrassing six-error nightcap neared its end, the fans at Citi Field broke into a “Pete Alonso” chant. That included Nick Giampietro, 68, of Howard Beach and Glenn Singer, 51, of Brooklyn.

“I’m always the most optimistic Met fan, but it’s hard right now,” said Giampietro, a popular Mets fan better known as The Pin Man.

Lefthander David Peterson was traded to the Cubs after Wednesday’s losses. With Alonso and closer Edwin Diaz departing in free agency and Brandon Nimmo and Jeff McNeil getting traded during the offseason, Peterson was the Mets’ longest-tenured player.

Peterson struggled to a 6.07 ERA before the trade, a season after he was named a National League All-Star.

“[Peterson] hasn’t really done much for us, unfortunately,” said Patrick Williams, 36, of Whitestone. “Wish he did, but maybe he’ll actually do something like everyone else that leaves the Mets.”

While the hope was that a new-look roster around Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor would return the Mets to the playoffs, FanGraphs gave them a 6.7% chance entering Thursday.

“They [stink], waste of money,” Singer said. “I really regret having season tickets for all these years.”

While Williams said it’s “no one’s fault” — noting that the Mets spent a lot of money on players who aren’t producing — Nagy and Giampietro placed the blame on president of baseball operations David Stearns.

Nagy derisively referred to Stearns as the “genius” and Mets fans as the “idiots who pay to come and watch this disgrace.” Giampietro added that Stearns “thinks he knows everything.”

Among Stearns’ headline moves entering the season were trading for starting pitcher Freddy Peralta, signing Bo Bichette to play third base and trading Nimmo for second baseman Marcus Semien. Entering Thursday, Peralta had a 4.83 ERA, Bichette had a .254 batting average and Semien’s FanGraphs Wins Above Replacement was -0.1.

“Stearns, he’s the number one culprit here. He put this mess together,” Nagy said.

Though the Mets still have half the season remaining, they entered Thursday in last place in the NL East (14 1⁄2 games behind first-place Atlanta), nine games behind the Cubs for the third wild-card spot and with the third-worst record in the NL.

As Williams said, every year is the Mets’ year and full of optimism at the start, but it never works out. That’s been the case thus far — and frustrations are boiling.

“Misery, simple as that,” Nagy said. “Misery.”