California congressman sings ‘Meet The Mets’ to settle bet
A bet between two congressman over who would win the NLDS between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers paid out on the floor of the House of Representatives.
The Major League Baseball post season is no stranger to the world of side bets. Mayors from cities across the league have bet anything from cheese steaks to barbecue ribs while touting their hometown teams in the playoffs.
We’ve just never seen it play out before in the hallowed halls of congress.
Representatives Adam Schiff, a democrat from California, and Steve Israel, a fellow democrat from New York, had just such a side bet going. The bet was fairly simple; the loser had to sing the opposing team’s fight song on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Of course, the Mets dispatched with the Dodgers in the National League Divisional Series in five games, winning two of those games at Dodger Stadium. Despite having both Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw at the top of their rotation, the Dodgers were unable to overcome the hot bat of Daniel Murphy and were sent packing from the postseason in the divisional round for the second consecutive season.
That left the representative from California on the short-end of a losing bet. On Friday, that bet was paid off when Representative Schiff took the podium and promptly belted out “We Are The Mets”.
It wasn’t the most rousing of deliveries, but Representative Schiff at least gave it a heartfelt effort, completing his rendition by taping the Mets logo to his tie, thanking God it wasn’t the Yankees heading to the World Series, and begging for his time to be officially over.
While it isn’t the best way to spend our government tax dollars, at least we get some entertainment value out of it, and CSPAN for that matter.