Drinos In D.C.

Back in the day I was a student in the great city of Washington, D.C.

One of my favorite spots in the city was the Jefferson Memorial. On the right night - think any night of the year when it's not raining or 100 degrees - you could walk over to the Memorial, sit on the steps by the water and surreptitously drink wine, beer or booze that you'd packed in your backpack. I mean, that wasn't necessarily "allowed," but it is what I did on a couple of occasions.

Those were good times.

I honestly can't think of a better spot to surreptitiously drink booze in public than the Jefferson Memorial. (Note: Obviously I'm not including here the best spot in the world to drink booze in public, which is the hills of the Albaicín in Granada, Spain looking back at the Alhambra. But public drinking is legal in Spain so there is no need to be surreptitious.)

All of this is just a long way of saying that the Padres are in D.C. this week for three games against the Nationals. I've been to a solid handful of Drino-Natty games in the District, but alas won't be heading down this year.

No doubt Clayton Richard can get the series off to a good start tonight without me.