California Congressman Sings ‘Meet The Mets’ On House Floor After Home Team Loses

WASHINGTON — Making sports-related bets with lawmakers from other states is a renouned tradition on Capitol Hill. 

But Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) showed Friday because it competence be best to hang to exchanging internal delicacies.

Schiff, who represents tools of Los Angeles County, done a peril with Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) over a outcome of a new playoff array between a New York Mets and a Los Angeles Dodgers. For losing a bet, a California Democrat had to sing “Meet a Mets” on a House floor, wearing a Mets tie.

He did not seem happy about his punishment — though during slightest he got in a poke during a Mets’ hated crosstown rival.

“Thank God a Mets are going to a World Series — and not a Yankees,” Schiff said.

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