When mayor Bill de Blasio makes a bet, he upholds the terms — no matter how humiliating they are.
The day the World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets began, Kansas City mayor Sly James and de Blasio set up a friendly bet on Twitter:
Two weeks after the Royals clinched the World Series 4-1, de Blasio is keeping up his side of the bargain, with American Ballet Theatre students as his backup dancers.