Place Your Bets
Yankees vs. Phillies. That was the World Series battle that also resulted in a friendly competitive wager between two VARs: New York-based Stage 2 Networks, a hosted PBX and converged networks specialist, and Philly-based Alteva, an enterprise-hosted VoIP and unified communications solution provider.
After winning a similar bet with Tampa Bay-based VoIP VAR Telovations in 2008, Alteva challenged Stage 2 in this year's friendly competition, staking Philadelphia pretzels and upping the ante, insisting that the losing team's hometown VAR would have to publicly acknowledge the other team's supremacy by wearing the opposing sports garb and snapping a few photos to prove it. Stage 2 accepted, and staked New York bagels.
Well, we know how it all turned out -- the Yankees beat the Phils in six games, 4-2 -- but the humiliation for Alteva, which lost the wager, didn't just end with Yankees closer Mariano Rivera on the mound. Here's a look at the photographic proof.
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