The film ends on a bittersweet, unhappy note when the couple realizes that their chaste romance is over.It is not surprising hat there are dozens of baseball-related euphemisms or metaphors for sex, including:"getting to first, second, third base, or scoring a home run" (degrees or levels of sexual encounter up through intercourse)"striking out" (failing to have sex or foreplay)"playing for both teams" or "switch hitter" (bisexuality)"playing for the other team" (homosexuality)This mature, authentic and earthy baseball film did not have an unrealistic, curtain-closing, climactic come-from-behind underdog ""Big Game"" victory, or lots of sentimental elements of other sub-genre films such as the reverential biopic odeThe Pride of the Yankees (1942), he sappy and allegoricalThe Natural (1984), or the fancifulField of Dreams (1989)...You know hat big girl that was sittin"" in front of us, with the skinny friend...Remember her name was Mary Feeny - we took ""em home all the way out in Brooklyn.What daya say? Think we ought to give ""em a call? I""ll take the skinny one." Marty seems weary of dating: "She maybe got a date already, Ange...I didn""t like her.I don""t feel like callin"" her up." And then they repeat their familiar exchange again, and Angie is fed up with Marty""s tired responses:Angie:Well, whaddya feel like doin"" tonight?Marty:I don""t know, Ange.The Bible story""s lesson continues as the camera pulls back to another high-angle view, recoiling from the murder:A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.Last time you got lucky."While Robert was in an Irish pub with his friends, a large TV screen was broadcasting an ESPN computer-simulated boxing match between two fighters: former two-time heavyweight champ from Philadelphia, Rocky Balboa (in his prime, with a record of 57-23-1, and 54 knockouts) and Mason Dixon of Las Vegas, NV (with a record of 33-0, and 30 knockouts), to see "who would come out on top.