Skid's 2014 Dream Season

JULY 28th - GAME #106 vs Philadelphia Phillies (46-59)
Bartolo Colon (9-8) starts the home stand against the Phils A.J. Burnett (6-9). After a 5-5 road trip the Mets come home for seven games. Lucas Duda has taken over the team's power bat with four homers in his last six games. Duda now has a career high 18 home runs. Zack Wheeler and Jacob deGrom have been outstanding in their last few starts giving much promise to the rotation. Daisuke Matsuzaka has gone on the DL with elbow inflammation.

51-55

The Mets got to A.J. Burnett early and cruised to the win. Travis d'Arnaud collected three extra base hits (two doubles, 3-run home run). Bartolo Colon was great scattering 8 hits and allowing only one run over 7 and 2/3 innings just one game after his taking a perfect game into the seventh inning his last start in Seattle.

Spent a lazy evening escaping the 100 degree heat outside, prone on the couch watching the game on TV. Today I started the second to last work week until retirement. It's a strange feeling counting down single digits now until I no longer have to go to work. I will spend most of this week and the next saying goodbye to co-workers and explaining my 2015 Dream for retirement. Of the 460+ employees at work only 2 (3 officially) have been there longer than myself. I collected up my tools today off of my work truck and will probably bring them home Friday. There are a few celebrations scheduled for the weekend of the 10th that I will write about later.