 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. 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. It's amazing that Mendes and Ball get away with recycling so many stale and reactionary ideas under the all-purpose rubric of "black comedy." That's the theme here, too, and it's extraordinarily potent, at times even heartbreaking. Ricky speaks of glimpsing in the bag's trajectory an "entire life behind things"--a "benevolent force" that holds the universe together.
 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.