You stay classy, Baltimore.

The Preakness was this past weekend and Curlin' won the thing in a very close race, "won by a head," is what I heard a lot of on Saturday night at a bbq. The real drama, hilarious antics and pathetic displays of depraved human behavior were, of course, occurring in the midfield. The great blog, withleather had a blurb about drunkards at the horsey race runnin atop Porta-Johns and this reminded me of a conversation I'd had yesterday with a friend of mine who llives in Baltimore and why he declined an invite to attend the race. "It's just the worst of humanity in a giant field and they're allowed to drink for nine or ten hours. Most of them can't even make it to the post time for the actual race. You can bring in your own alcohol and that's a huge part of the problem." After I stopped laughing at him and chiding him for being afraid to drink with the "Big Dogs" I thought about this and realized what a nightmare this has gotta be. Pimlico race track is really under a financial burden and The Preakness is the only race people show up for. So you've got the worst drunks you can picture graduating college with, and by "graduating college," I mean, "attended community college for a quarter before resorting to baking and selling meth for an income." In any case here's some real live video highlights of drunks, they run the spectrum, from pathetic funny to pathetic scary, it's in there.

PS: If you'd like to learn more about drunks and horse racing, go to your local library and look up "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved." You won't regret it.