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Why Matt Harvey's silent treatment with media needs to end

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David Lennon

David Lennon is an award-winning columnist and author who has been a staff writer at Newsday since 1991.

LAS VEGAS — By now, Matt Harvey should know how this works. It’s his job to pitch, wear the expensive suits, show up at the glitzy parties, pose for photos, make the headlines. All part of the gig as the young, admired, immensely-talented, man-about-town Mets ace.

And our job is to chronicle as much of that stuff as we can. The good, the bad, the potty-themed. It’s not complicated, this athlete-media relationship, even in New York.