Beers to you, St. Louis

If there's one good thing about the Phils getting knocked out of the playoffs, it's that Mayor Nutter won't have to choke down any of the weak, beer-like products that emanate from the fine town of St. Louis.

As per usual mayoral tradition, Mayor Nutter and his counterpart in St. Louis made a beer wager on the Phils-Cards series. Thanks to that squirrel, the Cardinals somehow managed to triumph in five games, and now the mayor of St. Louis (whatever his or her name is) gets to sample some of Philly's finest brews.

Tomorrow, Nutter will join the Phillie Phanatic and Tom Kehoe, the jolly brewmeister of Yards Brewing Company, to fulfill the bet by packing some suds for the journey to St. Louis. (Both mayors also agreed to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, which is far more socially conscious but not nearly as fun as watching baseball and drinking beer).

If the Phils had won, Nutter would have gotten a shipment of Budweiser, which seems silly considering that Budweiser is just about the most ubiquitous beer on the planet. And, it hardly seems like a fair wager, putting up such a mass-produced product against the finer microbrews of our fair city.

But, hey, maybe that was how they accounted for the Phils being such a heavy favorite in the series.

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