The bet, revealed on Breakfast Television before the series began<\/strong><\/a>, was rooted in both mayors\u2019 shared love of cycling. Chow and Bass agreed that the losing city\u2019s mayor would not only don the opposing team\u2019s jersey but also complete a bike ride measured by the winning team\u2019s run total. <\/p>\n\u201cWe have something in common, we\u2019re both cyclists,\u201d Chow said at the time. \u201cIf Toronto loses, I\u2019ll ride in miles. If L.A. loses, she\u2019ll ride in kilometres.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the Dodgers ultimately clinching the championship, Chow was left to fulfill her end of the bargain, as onlookers in downtown Toronto saw her wearing the blue-and-white Dodgers jersey. Bass, meanwhile, celebrated her team\u2019s victory in Los Angeles, where Dodgers fans flooded the streets in celebration of the franchise\u2019s latest championship.<\/p>\n
Game 7 of the World Series in Toronto drew an average audience of 10.9 million viewers, making it the most-watched English-language broadcast in Canada outside of the 2010 Winter Olympics.\u00a0Overall, 18.5 million Canadian viewers, representing 45 per cent of Canada\u2019s population, watched some or all of Game 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bet is a bet. Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow was spotted in the city on Tuesday wearing a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-357518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115497334674488515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}