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A Genius Spliced Bartolo Colon's Home Run into "The Natural"

Enjoy this mashup of "The Natural" and Bartolo Colon's home run.

Bartolo Colon hit his first career home run over the weekend and not surprisingly, the sun has been shining ever since. Bart got a special baseball card out of it, and we got the 11th slowest Tater Trot in recorded history. But wait, there's more. Some genius—Mark Evans—spliced Bartolo Colon's home run into footage from The Natural when Roy Hobbs mashed a tater himself. Everything works so damn well, it's amazing.

The slo-mo of the movie scene fits in perfectly with the (I'm pretty sure) real-time footage of the New York Mets Wonderboy hoofing it around the bases. The crowd/team reactions, the iconic music, and the explosiveness of it all is just delightful.

[CBS NY]