[Jeff]

I suspect that “He bats for the other team” is one of those expressions, the source of which, can never be pinned down. It’s like when my sister, who’s six years younger than me, used to come home from school with a “new” joke that was the same joke that I’d heard “new” six years earlier. Author unknown.

"Light in the loafers" is one that I’ve always wondered about. (I hope that doesn't mean something that I don't get.)

 

[Jeff]

It was funny to watch my brother hint and hint about his sexuality and no one but me and my husband get it. Maybe by next christmas he can be himself and my parents get out of the river denial.

I'm reading a book by Timothy Mulder called Little and Lonely - Moments and Milestones that your brother might like to read. Mulder writes like I wish I could.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2DE12YHL2B2HQ

 

[Jeff]

I found this on the Grammarphobia Blog:

Thanks, Leslie.

I started a Wiki discussion:

http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:bat_for_the_other_team&action=edit