A bit ago, I was talking about Sarah Palin and hockey moms. Thought you’d enjoy a letter from the South — Georgia (not the Shevardnadze kind) — about baseball:

Jay,
Two grandsons at baseball tournaments this weekend. As applied to “baseball moms,” the phrase “staid and formal” means, “We did not actually have to physically restrain the woman from going after the umpire; she responded to verbal suggestions made loudly and repeatedly.” And we won’t even mention “baseball grandmas,” the one I’m married to requiring me to scale a six-foot chainlink fence to retrieve Grandson No. 2’s homerun ball for the trophy case.

Life can’t be all Turkish flotillas and congressmen’s assaults on students. (Nice to see, however, that congressmen from the Carolinas have stopped using canes.)