AND The Hardball Award Goes To...

...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Yep, Chris Matthews gave Clinton his fifth Hardball Award "for grace under fire, personal moxie, courage, and for a bit of timely humility. For most of all the willingness to serve our country over self. We salute you. And I salute you."

"She deserves and wins the award, our fifth, and the first to go to a woman for displaying the arts and science of smart human behavior. They are to remind you: personal moxie, savvy, basic street smarts, knowing the world you're in, knowing what you have to do and doing it. That's what makes a Hardball award winner."