 What is the plot of For Love of the Game?
Apparently, Lester doesn't realize that snipped roses are garden-variety symbols of castration, or he'd know what he has lost. Later, Lester envisions her on a bed of red petals, then immersed in a bath of red petals. The script, by Alan Ball, a playwright and former sitcom writer, carries an invigorating blast of counterculture righteousness, along with the kind of pithily vicious marital bickering that makes some viewers (especially male) say, "Yeah! More important, it has a vein of metaphysical yearning, which the director, Sam Mendes, mines brilliantly. A hotshot English theater director (his Cabaret revival is still on the boards in New York), Mendes gives the film a patina of New Age lyricism and layer upon layer of visual irony.
 An over-the-hill pitcher must commit to the game or the girl.
 An over-the-hill catcher fights to keep his place on the team.  An over-the-hill catcher must commit to the game or the girl.  An over-the-hill pitcher must commit to the game or the girl.  An over-the-hill pitcher fights to keep his place on the team.