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De Blasio Bets a Piazza Jersey in Wager with LA Mayor

By Katie Honan | October 9, 2015 6:40pm | Updated on October 12, 2015 8:44am
 De Blasio, a lifelong Red Sox fan, donned a Mike Piazza jersey for a bet against Los Angeles.
De Blasio, a lifelong Red Sox fan, donned a Mike Piazza jersey for a bet against Los Angeles.
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The only upside to the Mets not making the playoffs for nine years was that fans have avoided the friendly yet corny political wager that comes with a team's success.

We couldn't avoid it this year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, released a video Friday evening dramatizing his process of selecting a wager for Mayor Eric Garcetti, whose Los Angeles Dodgers play the Mets tonight.

Flanked by spokesman Phil Walzak and Dominic Williams, chief of staff to first deputy mayor Anthony Shorris, de Blasio tries to find the perfect bet.

He rules out having the Dodgers move back to Brooklyn (not legal, Williams said.)

They eventually decide on the Garcetti having to wear a Mike Piazza jersey on a film set. 

Piazza started with the Dodgers but ended up in Queens after a pit stop in Florida — and he "changed lives" as a Met, de Blasio said.

Always eager for the national stage, de Blasio then ups the ante by requesting to "get us back on Kimmel" where the loser will read mean tweets.

The bet gets the final OK from Mr. Met himself.

Garcetti, in response, bet that de Blasio would have to wear a Piazza Dodgers jersey if his team won.