Emanuel gambles liquor, ribs in NLDS wager with San Fran mayor

SHARE Emanuel gambles liquor, ribs in NLDS wager with San Fran mayor
bx105_309b_9.jpg

Mayor Rahm Emanuel attends Opening Night at Wrigley Field in April 2015. | Sun-Times files

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is betting a bushel of local brews, some Robinson’s No. 1 ibs, an Eli’s cheesecake and more in a friendly wager with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on the outcome of the Cubs’ National League Division Series with the Giants.

“I’ll also throw in a container of Chicago-made hair butter to help Mayor Lee grow his trademark mustache into a Jake Arrieta-like beard,” Emanuel announced Friday.

Lee, in turn, has wagered bottles of Bay Area whiskeys and a contribution to the Becoming a Man program in Chicago.

“The Cubs are the best team in baseball, and I fully expect Chicago to Fly the W,” Emanuel said. They pushed the odds in Emanuel’s favor by grinding out a 1-0 victory in the series opener.

The Latest
He launched a campaign against a proposed neo-Nazis march at a time the suburb was home to many Holocaust survivors. His rabbi at Skokie Central Congregation urged Jews to ignore the Nazis. “I jumped up and said, ‘No, Rabbi. We will not stay home and close the windows.’ ”
That the Bears can just diesel their way in, Bronko Nagurski-style, and attempt to set a sweeping agenda for the future of one of the world’s most iconic water frontages is more than a bit troubling.
Only two days after an embarrassing loss to lowly Washington, the Bulls put on a defensive clinic against Indiana.
One woman suffered a gunshot wound to the neck. In each incident, the four to five men armed with rifles, handguns and knives, approached victims on the street in Logan Square, Portage Park, Avondale, Hermosa threatened or struck them before taking their belongings, police said.