..If I felt that I belonged someplace, you know, then...After giving Jim a sympathetic hearing, Ray suggests hat Jim come in to talk, shoot the breeze, anytime night or day, when he feels like it.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).Jason pushed through a group of street urchins listening to a ghetto blaster, causing them to hreaten with switchblades drawn: "You""re dead meat, slime bag" - but one look at Jason (when he unmasked himself) changed heir minds.They were almost detected, but then rescued from capture by elderly bearded Aberforth Dumbledore (Ciaran Hinds), Albus"" younger brother, who ushered them into the basement of his Hog""s Head Inn.