{"id":830952,"date":"2021-09-30T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=830952"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:59:09","slug":"gop-lawmaker-hits-rare-out-of-the-park-homer-during-congressional-game-at-mlb-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmaker-hits-rare-out-of-the-park-homer-during-congressional-game-at-mlb-park\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Lawmaker Hits Rare, Out-Of-The-Park Homer During Congressional Game AT MLB Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-lawmaker-hits-rare-out-of-the-park-homer-during-congressional-game-at-mlb-park%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=830952&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/steube-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As Rex Barney, the game announcer for the Baltimore Orioles from 1969 until his death in 1997, used to say, \u201cGive that fan a contract!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barney would make the call when a fan made a great catch in the stands, but it applies to Rep. Greg Stuebe now, too, after the Florida Republican hit a home run during the annual congressional baseball game \u2014&nbsp;the first time in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>And he didn\u2019t just hit a homer, he jacked it out of the park, home to the Washington National MLB team. Take a look.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5945945945946\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepGregSteube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepGregSteube<\/a> hits &#8220;first out-of-the-park homerun in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CongressionalBaseballGame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CongressionalBaseballGame<\/a> in more than 40 years \u2026 a bona fide major league homerun&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hE0uEBa1sc\">pic.twitter.com\/hE0uEBa1sc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HowardMortman\/status\/1443373549188751361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ball traveled more than 300 feet, bouncing off the front railing in front of the first row of the stands and ricocheted back onto the field. Steube played it up, taking a slow trot around the bases, where he was congratulated by Democratic fielders before being mobbed by his teammates after he stepped on home plate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteube is the first lawmaker to clear the fence at Nationals Park since the game was moved there in 2008,\u201d The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/29\/biden-hits-congressional-baseball-game-as-infrastructure-bill-hope-fades\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cRep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is believed to have been the first lawmaker to hit an out-of-the-park home run in the game, doing so in 1979 at Alexandria, Va. In 1997, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) clanged a home run off the foul pole at Prince George\u2019s Stadium in Bowie, Md.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steube was also the GOP\u2019s starting pitcher, wearing a \u201cSave America\u201d hat signed by former President Donald Trump. He pitched 5 2\/3 innings before moving to third base. The GOP was able to pull out a 13-12 win in the seven-inning game.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to the game and was there for the titanic clout.&nbsp; But at least one critic objected to the POTUS stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that Joe Biden has time to go to the Congressional baseball game but not time to take questions on Afghanistan or see the humanitarian crisis at the border is a disgrace. #DoYourJob #StrikingOut,\u201d Nikki Haley, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the surprise appearance as he tried to save two bills stuck in Congress, glad-handing lawmakers as members of his own party who threaten to derail his agenda. Moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are openly opposing his $3.5 trillion federal spending bill, while progressive members could shut down a separate $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package in a key vote on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin on Wednesday called the spending bill \u201cfiscal insanity,\u201d as progressive members of the so-called \u201cSquad\u201d in the House have been threatening to kill infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRespectfully, as I have said for months, I can\u2019t support $3.5 trillion more in spending when we have already spent $5.4 trillion since last March,\u201d Manchin said. \u201cAt some point, all of us, regardless of party must ask the simple question \u2014 how much is enough?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a leader of the House progressive bloc, vowed that the infrastructure bill would go down in flames if it came up for a vote Thursday.&nbsp;\u201cAfter that statement [from Manchin], we probably have even more people willing to vote no,\u201d Jayapal told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had scheduled a vote on the legislation for Thursday, but reports are swirling inside the Beltway that she\u2019ll pull the vote because she doesn\u2019t have enough support.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Rex Barney, the game announcer for the Baltimore Orioles from 1969 until his death in 1997, used to say, \u201cGive that fan a contract!\u201dBarney would make the call when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}