Fla. senators pay up for Rays' loss

Florida Sens. Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson settled their World Series wager with their Pennsylvania colleagues on Wednesday, delivering to them pastries and fish from the Tampa Bay area because of the Rays' loss to the Phillies last month.

Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey got Cuban pastries, Ted Peters' Smoked Fish and copies of the Columbia Restaurant's Spanish cookbook. The Florida senators will also hand over a box of citrus once the fruit ripens.

"The oranges are still a little bitter over the Rays’ loss," they wrote in a note to Casey and Specter. "It will take till the end of November for them to sweeten."

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I assume they paid for these items and the freight to ship them out of their own pockets.

Please don't change the subject; we're roasting a corrupt Republican in his own juices over on another thread.

You know if the press didn't cover this crap, the politicians wouldn't do it.

this is good stuff -- all you haters can go suck an egg.

why is their philly cream cheese in the picture? i sure hope we didn't send them that and claim it as our own...

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DOES ANYONE REALLY CARE ABOUT THESE "SILLY" WAGERS?? THERE ARE SO MANY !!MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES THEY SHOULD BE DEALING WITH