Roy Blunt: “it may be obvious that my colleagues and I, here in the back of the room--even during a serious debate--are a little…”

“it may be obvious that my colleagues and I, here in the back of the room--even during a serious debate--are a little happier than the Senate usually finds itself. Of course, we are very pleased to be able to commend our baseball team. While Senator McCaskill and I wish to quickly point out that the team is located in Kansas City, MO, certainly Kansans and Missourians join together to support the Royals, support the Royals in the American League, and in this case support the Royals in the World Series--and what a series it was. What a team it has been to watch the last couple of years. I think maybe my favorite comment from the series that didn't end quite so well for us last year was the one game the manager of the Giants just said: They kept hitting the ball where we couldn't get to it. That is very much the kind of baseball the Royals play, that big ball park they play in. Home runs aren't as much a part of the game as just hitting the ball where the other side can't get to it and then always getting to the ball that the other side hits anywhere. This is a series that started with a 14-inning classic and ended in a 12-inning thriller, with 5 Royals' runs being scored in the top of that 12th inning. If this had been a seventh-inning series, the Royals wouldn't have won. The Royals outscored the Mets 15 to 1 from the seventh inning on and won three of the four games after they were behind in the eighth inning or later in the World Series.…”