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New York Yankees icon and business mogul Alex Rodriguez is good at many things. But friendly betting with friends might be one of the things the former baseball player is not good at.?

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World Series is going on right now, so it is natural for stories of the previous World Series to resurface. This one involving Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez with betting also includes Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg is of the 2018 World Series. That year, the Yankees’ fiercest rival, Boston Red Sox, went against the LA Dodgers in the World Series.

The Hollywood star and the former Yankee made a bet on who will win the World Series. Rodriguez, as a former Yankee, took sides with the Dodgers, while Mark went the other way.?Unfortunately for Alex, Red Sox won, and A-Rod had to pay his debt. It was not an easy one either. But if Dodgers had won, what Mark would have had to do was much tougher.?

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What did Alex Rodriguez have to do as he lost on the bet?

By 4-1, the Red Sox won World Series for the ninth time in the history of their franchise. Mark Wahlberg is a New Englander and is the middle child of three brothers. The youngest one of them, Paul Wahlberg, for his love of cooking, opened Wahlburgers in many locations.?

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According to the bet, if Alex lost, he’d have to spend a day working at one of the locations of Wahlburgers doing every chore, on the order of Mark’s younger brother Paul. To his dismay, Alex had chosen the location near Fenway Park.?

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He was there at the location, started on the grill, flipped the burgers, and even made drinks. While making the drinks, since he was a rookie, he was taking time more than usual. Also, the former Yankee cleaned the bathroom floors as well. There also, Alex had spread his charm over the Boston people, all while impressing many of the Red Sox fans.?

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What would have happened had Alex won the bet?

If Alex had won the bet, what Mark had agreed to do was much more extreme than flipping some burgers. The Hollywood star has agreed to go to Yankee Stadium and do a performance on ‘Good Vibrations? in his underwear.?

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Fortunately for Mark, he didn’t have to deliver on that promise.?

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