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RUSH: How many of you were able to stay up for the entire 14 innings of the World Series game last night? That game ended about a half hour before I go to bed anyway, so I was in no sweat. I had no trouble whatsoever. But it was just a great game. The Kansas City Royals are just an amazing transformation over what they were just five years ago, and there\u2019s a reason. There\u2019s an absolute reason why the Royals have done a 180 and bounced back and become a real baseball team to get to the World Series. His name is Dayton Moore, the general manager of the Royals that came over from the Atlanta Braves. He was working with John Schuerholz, who used to work with the Royals back in the days I used to be in charge of ceremonial first pitches there — and National Anthem singers, too. I did that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Overland Park, Kansas City, where I used to have a shack and live — and there aren\u2019t any shacks in Overland Park, except the one I had. Sarah, it\u2019s great to have you here. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m great, Rush, and it\u2019s great to talk to you again. I\u2019m honored. Thank you for taking my call —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and about one of my favorite subjects. You are showing favor to the Kansas City Royals, and I expect you to watch tonight because we\u2019re gonna do some more magic. But it\u2019s been great.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a great team. They never give up, and you can\u2019t count \u2019em out. If it takes singles and walks, they capitalize on every error. I mean, it\u2019s such a marvelous turnaround that they have made. I mean, they were the joke of baseball for so many years, and it is a turn. Starting in 2006-2007, this team\u2019s become — with nowhere near the biggest payroll in baseball — one of the best, solid quality baseball teams playing a unique kind of game that\u2019s out there today. It\u2019s a great World Series, too. It\u2019s gonna shape up to be one. Yeah, I know. Kansas City is a town… Self-esteem in that town is defined by how well the sports teams do. When the teams are winning there, there\u2019s no place in this country better to be than Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. It\u2019s glued the town together. It\u2019s brought everybody together, and everyone\u2019s so excited about it. It\u2019s a nice distraction from everything going on <\/line>in Washington. I just love it that you love the Royals and talk about them. I\u2019ve been waiting for you… I\u2019ve heard you mention them a couple times, you know, this season in the postseason again, and we\u2019re just so excited. They\u2019re the definite underdog throughout the season. We won the division this year, and you\u2019re right. You\u2019re absolutely right.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you go back to the beginning of the season; the experts in sports media were predicting the Royals to barely finish fourth in their division. It was a fluke last year.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They really weren\u2019t that good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And all it did was motivate \u2019em. Look, they\u2019re steady. They\u2019re solid. As I say, I mean, it\u2019s hard to credit one person for a team performance. But you can\u2019t leave out the role Dayton Moore has played. Is a serious general manager, he came from a great baseball background Atlanta Braves, Schuerholz. And he\u2019s really… If you have to say, “What\u2019s the difference? What\u2019s new?” here what\u2019s different today, since 2006. Prior to that, it would be Dayton Moore.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s right. You\u2019re right. He\u2019s an honorable man. He\u2019s just brought everybody together. He\u2019s made trades, you know, that at the time don\u2019t necessarily go. What? You know, not big names.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You don\u2019t have tons of money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, look, they put the scouting system back together.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A bunch of stuff was gutted when “Mr. K” died, and the ownership had a whole different view of the existence and the purpose of the team. And Dayton Moore comes in and they put the scouting department back together, and all of the developmental things to find young players and develop them themselves. They put that all back into the process, and it took a while for it to come to fruition, but it has. And, Sarah, I\u2019m out of time, but I\u2019m glad you called. And I know. When the teams are winning in Kansas City, folks, there really is no better place to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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