DC is an awesome city, but DC is also hot as balls.  After a night out of drinking we turned it around quickly for a day Mets game.  Here is something that is very sweet at Nationals Park.....we had to catch a flight home and needed to check out of our hotel, so our bags needed to come with us.  We called the stadium before we left and we were told that they had a bag drop.  I instantly called bullshit on this, there was no way that a stadium had a controlled bag drop location. 

We made it out to the stadium easily again with mass transportation.  The subway system in DC is so clean, imagine standing on a platform in NYC waiting for a train in a clean and air conditioned setting.  True bliss.  Once out at the stadium we went to find our other friend who had the tickets, sweet season tickets about 10 rows off the field.  We asked around for the "bag drop" and after going through the gate we were directed to guest services.  We walked in to this office and had the nicest lady tell us that there was no problem at all, we could leave our bags in this clean, climate controlled room at no cost.  Wow, nice. 

The start time was 1:35 and I had not eaten anything since the night before when I chugged a Gatorade and stuffed my face with a box of Entamens cookies.  I was about to put on a an eating fest.  Sausages, ice slush, hot dogs, chicken fingers and nahos....dominated it. 

Our seats were fantastic, right behind the Nats dugout, but directly in the sun.  I spend $4 a pop for water, unreal, let me say that again $4 for a water!  Prices at Nationals Park were definitely more expensive than CitiField, another reason to love the Mets new home.

If I asked if a 5-1 record with a 3.88 ERA was All Star worthy, what would you say?  If I also told you that this record belonged to a 5th starter named Livan Hernandez, would you believe me?  Livan has been spectacular so far this year, even though a bulk of his starts have been against the Nationals, Pirates, Marlins and other sub .500 teams.  He has been a pleasant surprise.  The Mets offense got off to a hot, hot start, scoring 5 runs in the top of the first.  A much, much better line-up was put out on the field today, including the return of Ryan Church.  In my opinion something still seems off about him, but I guess only time will tell if he is fully back to strength, and I am talking about all the way back from pre-concussion. 

Other things of interest:
- Adam Dunn is huge.  I mean, he is like Sasquatch huge.  I was in such favor of the Mets signing him this off season, all he does is consistently put up 30 HR and 100 RBI.  I know hindsight is 20/20, but signing him would have solved our gap at 1B. 
- D Wright looked dialied in this series, he went 2/3 in this game with 2 walks. 
- At CitiField they have the t-shirt launch, well the same thing happens at Nationals Park, however, later in the game they stuff the t-shirt cannon with sausages and fire them into the upper tank.  I love it, CitiField Pepsi Patrol, get on that!
- James caught a t-shirt, of course it was a triple XL.
- Did I say it was hot, and did I say I was hung over?
- After the first inning the game went pretty silent for the rest of the game.  Livan and the Mets staff shut down the triple A Nationals and the Mets bats went quiet. 

After an awesome Saturday day and night we saw a great Mets win, 7-0, taking 2 of 3 from the Nationals.  It was a great weekend and as I have said in the past I love DC, it is my second city.  It was good to be back.  Road trips are always a blast and this one was no different.  Lots of laughs, drinking, memories. I highly suggest that you look at the Mets upcoming scheudle and plan a road trip, it awesome seeing a new city and the Mets play in their road uniforms.  The five of us had a sick time, can't wait to do it again.