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Hamill: Oh, the pain for Mets fans

It’s like being born with original sin.

Worse, because no baptism yet imagined has been able to wash away the lifelong agonies of being a New York Mets fan.

In addition to cleaning highways, emptying hospice bedpans, and sorting clothes at the Salvation Army, tough New York judges should sentence low-level criminals to the community service of a full season of Mets fandom.

Except after the team’s recent woes, where they scored just three runs in 37 innings following Friday night’s game, losing 10 of their last 15 games and racking up a record of 12-26 on the road some American Civil Liberties Union lawyer will claim that’s cruel and unusual punishment.