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As he sat under a fluorescent light in his windowless Apple Valley insurance office Thursday, Amberg tracked the Twins home opener on his phone while pretending to text clients.
"My buddies and I were out in Vegas for the Super Bowl, and I had a good run at blackjack my first day there," said Amberg. "I walked past the sports book on the way to my room, saw the Twins at 33-1 to win the World Series, and put $50 on them. I absolutely and completely took it in the shorts the rest of the weekend.
"I could have really used that $50," he added. He declined to go into detail.
Minnesota's no-nonsense dispatch of division champion Cleveland allowed Amberg an entire minute to build a version of the world where his impulse wager on the Twins paid off in full.
"The minute (Taylor) Rogers struck out the last batter, I put my phone down, took the slip out of my wallet, felt the paper between my thumb and forefinger, and thought about one of those above ground pools," said the Glencoe native. "Not those lousy blue ones that always look like they're about to collapse and have dead squirrels in 'em. A really sturdy one. Put it in the backyard, give the kids something to do outside instead of dicking around on the tablets all day. Man."
Amberg confirmed that when the minute was up, he put the slip away, went to the break room, drank some water, and stared out the window at the employee parking lot for an undetermined amount of time.
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