Can everyone who compared Aaron Small to The freakin' Natural last season please issue a public apology? You don't have to do anything official, just stand up, right now, wherever you are, and say it to everyone around. Open the window and yell toward the street if you're at home. Don't worry about the people around you. They'll know.

Seriously, what an insult to the movie that was. Roy Hobbs was a star on the rise who got fucking shot, (by a gun, people, not by Leo the Luck Angel's arrow) only to return sixteen years later and take a plodding team to a pennant in miraculous fashion.

Aaron Small stunk for ten years (no, he never struck out The Whammer at a carnival), joined the team with the highest payroll and won ten games with one of the best lineups in baseball behind him, giving up nearly a hit an inning, to help his team barely tie the division--one in which the team they tied made the post-season anyway--before losing in the first round of the playoffs.

Terrible comparison. Only in The Bronx.