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Originally Posted by Catlady
OK, that makes sense, but it still seems like a drastic change to make just to create symmetry. Even without the pitching/hitting flip, both confrontations are youth vs. age, with youth winning.
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I've been thinking about this since you posed your question and I think it works better this way. I'm not familiar with all the jargon that underlies the theory, but I think if this is to be a classic hero's journey, with the hero coming full circle, then the conditions at the end should replicate those at the beginning. Since Roy now must take the place of the aging player in his last test, I think it was necessary for him to have the same final task. And the Babe Ruth reference makes it entirely credible.
Or, as the final line in
The Great Gatsby put it:
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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