Meet the Mets? You’ve known these Mets for more than 60 years.

Pain and heartbreak are part of the very fabric of being a Mets fan. Even MLB’s richest owner, an analytic-guru president of baseball operations, and a $380 million payroll aren’t enough to outweigh that cosmic right.

So Mets fans reeling from the team’s nightmarish 9-19 start can take at least some solace in this simple truism: This is all part of the experience.

Many expected those fortunes to change when Steve Cohen, now worth approximately $23 billion, bought the team in 2020 with an appetite to turn it into a winner.

The future appeared even brighter when David Stearns, the NYC-born wunderkind who grew up a Mets fan, became Cohen’s handpicked leader of the front office in 2023.

Some even feared the Mets would lose the goofy, chaotic fun that had so long defined them when big-money signings like that of Juan Soto began to put a target on their backs.

But rest assured, even after all of that, the Mets are back to being, well, the Mets. And there’s something pure about that.

The Mets dropped both games of Sunday’s doubleheader to the cellar-dwelling Colorado Rockies, a team that lost 119 games last season. That completed Colorado’s three-game sweep at Citi Field, extending the Mets’ run of futility to 15 losses in 17 games.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this, to be honest with you, where it goes for so long, when you’ve got so many guys struggling at the same time,” manager Carlos Mendoza said Sunday after the Mets totaled one run in 18 innings.

But there is plenty of franchise precedent for these kinds of extended struggles.

This is the fifth time in the Mets’ 65-year history that they’ve started 9-19 or worse. The first instance occurred in 1962 — the Mets’ infamous inaugural season — in which their 9-19 start spiraled into a 40-120-1 disaster.

For decades, those 120 losses stood as the modern-era record for the most in an MLB season, until the Chicago White Sox finally — mercifully? — went 41-121 in 2024.

These Mets are nowhere close to that pace. Their .321 winning percentage — while tied for the worst among MLB teams this season — has the Mets on track to finish 52-109.

Any time that 1962 team creeps into the conversation, it’s not a good thing. But those bumbling ‘62 Mets are now looked back upon somewhat fondly, because seven years later, the Amazin’ Mets were born.

Improbably, everything came together for the 1969 Mets, who delivered not only the franchise’s first-ever winning season, but surged all the way to the organization’s first World Series championship.

That 1969 run perfectly encapsulates the Mets’ history as a whole: Lovable underdogs who, every now and then, pull off an incredible feat out of nowhere.

The last such occasion occurred in 2024 when, after beginning the season 22-33, the Mets rallied to an 89-73 record and all the way to Game 6 of the NLCS.

Unlikely heroes such as Jose Iglesias, Grimace and the Playoff Pumpkin emerged along the way, helping to fuel a storybook season in which Pete Alonso clubbed one of the biggest home runs in Mets history.

But those extreme highs typically come in between years of lows, and the present-day Mets are in a different phase of their life cycle.

Last year, the Mets collapsed in the season’s second half and missed the playoffs, just like they did in 2007 and 2008.