Knuckleball- Beauty in sport

Let's revisit your your description of player greatness.  Now I want you to write a comparison through an extended metaphor (just add it to last night's writing in Docs).

Some ideas of metaphor:
-lion vs. lion on the Serengeti
-doctor vs. surgeon vs. neurosurgeon
-snake vs.boa constrictor
- painter/ sculptor vs. Michelangelo


From Andrew Sullivan's Post of the documentary Knuckleball.
Scott Tobias
-

There are essentially two things that can happen with a knuckleball. It can float toward the plate without spin, jerk around like boozy relatives at a wedding hall and make the world's best hitters look like hapless Looney Tunes characters. Or it can float toward the plate with spin, lope with a steady trajectory at 65 mph and give the world's best hitters the juiciest slab of red meat this side of Sizzler. When a knuckleball specialist is on (adverbial) , he's a magician, conjuring the dark and mysterious forces of the universe (participial) ; when he's off (adverbial), he's the pot-bellied assistant manager throwing batting practice...