Freddie and Michael clash over a local softball tournament.

Tommy has to balance his loyalty to the Speaker with his loyalty to ‘The Hill’. Rose loses her job.

 When Freddie Cork refuses to let Michael and Pete play on his softball team in a local bar tournament, Michael goes out and takes over his own bar. When the two team meet, tensions rise. Rose discovers firsthand the destructive power of globalization; as a shop steward for her union. She loses a fight to stop layoffs within her factory and is herself fired. When the Speaker proposes a new waste-disposal station in Tommy’s district, Tommy plays fast and loose to make sure his constituents are properly compensated. If along the way a few extra dollars end up in his own pocket, so be it.