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How the Grateful Dead Helped Me Understand the Mets
Where many might see only inefficiency, sloppiness and directionlessness (take your pick), we see the potential for a shambling kind of glory, the ability to summon form out of chaos and the reward in loving something not in spite of its imperfections but because of them.
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An unusual comparison,but I see the why of it.
As a lifelong Mets fan and Deadhead, I find it devastatingly apt. In fact, I've made this case to my friends on several occasions. Unfortunately, few here in Ohio have a sense of the pathos in the Mets' story, and there are no analogous teams in Ohio sports that I can think of.