…..and were up for NFL Sunday. Shower up and head down to the book. This is the sweat.
1. Betting against the Sam Darnold overreaction (EZ Money)
2. Betting against Matt Stafford vs a good team (we’re still on the assumption that the 49ers are a good team this year)
3. Homer bet (Not like I’ve ever lost money/pride/my soul believing in the god damn Vikings….)
And we settle in for the first round of games at the Cosmo book. I’m a big fan of the new Cosmo book. It’s got a great party vibe going with the pool tables and shufflepuck, etc. tons of screens, you never seem to wait in line too long to place a bet.
Of course the MN vs GB game is completely nutso, and I get to name another game after a kicker. This one (though not as memorable right away) will be forever known as the Daniel Carlson game, mostly because I received this update on my phone the next day while heading out of town.
Tough, but fair. There’s 32 kicking jobs in the world, sorry your audition lasted 2 weeks. I’ll file this game right behind both the Gary Anderson game and the Blair Walsh game, but in front of the Jeff Locke game. It’s baffling to me that some teams just seem to ace the kicker spots forever, and the Vikings never ever can. I haven’t felt confident about a Vikings kick since I was a teenager.
Anyway, after that push and a couple drinks it was food time, so we are off up the elevators for a quick lunch at Momofuku. Ramen with mushrooms and a shrimp bun.
I’m a big Momofuku fan. Pretty sure I’ve stopped here every time I’ve been here since it opened 2+ years ago.
A quick detour to the dice table on our way back down to the book (+200 and 2 free beers) we settle in to watch the Lions backdoor cover the spread. We pocket the Fins winnings and put the MN ticket on the Sad-Boys and the over (the Giants are going to be terrible again this year).
No photos of that ticket. The game wasn’t great and the bet didn’t win, but it was still another good Sunday in the book, and now we are off to dinner.
Zuma,
Start with a Japanese IPA.
Food, chef’s choice Sashimi plate
And end with a Burning History
Sashimi was good. I’ve had better in California, but this was better than the sashimi at the old Cosmo sushi spot (whatever was at Blue Ribbon before Blue Ribbon), but not as good as Mizumi. Being a Midwesterner it’s better than anything I can find at home. Kabuto is on my list one of these trips…
The burning history tasted a little too much like a campfire for my liking, but any drink that involves a serious amount of blowtorch (she had that thing going for like a whole minute on the wood) is a good order in my book.
Last order of business. The Aria poker room for some cards and a couple of those vodka watermelons I’ve heard so much about. Not sure when the Greyhound went out of style, but it’s 2018 and according to LVL the vodka watermelon is the new hotness.
... oh hey cool, they made a slot machine of my favorite movie as a kid. This was a 100$ punt.
….. and I’ll be honest, Aria was a 300$ punt too. At least in the shape I was in when I was playing. Though to be fair 120 of that punt was on a back massage, and we were doing much better until we ran into a flopped set over set (55 over 1010 on a 510J rainbow). It’s now technically been Monday AM for awhile, I am sole survivor as everyone else did the responsible thing and flew/drove home over the course of Sunday, and I’m craving some food
A stop at secret pizza on the way home, And a scotch to go with it and we call it a night.
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