Doug Ose: “Mr. Speaker, it is October 1, and every October 1 every American wakes up and realizes that it is playoff time. Today we…”

“Mr. Speaker, it is October 1, and every October 1 every American wakes up and realizes that it is playoff time. Today we across the country and in the cities fortunate to enough to have teams still participating, those playoffs started. In the National League, the defending world champion Arizona Diamondbacks face off against the St. Louis Cardinals while the San Francisco Giants challenge the Atlanta Braves. Over in the American league, the Yankees face the Anaheim Angels, and the Oakland A's take on the Minnesota Twins. It is only appropriate that we take this opportunity at the end of the season to look back at the season and at an amazing record by those amazing A's. The truly historic part of this past season is what we are here to honor today, and that is the record 20-game winning streak of the Oakland A's. When the A's took the field on August 14, they were 4 1/2 games back in the American League West division standings. They were 2 1/2 games out in the wild card race, and they got hot. They did not just get hot, Mr. Speaker, they started to cook.”