Mets 17 Phillies 0 in The Last Regular Season Game at Citifield

It has certainly been a season of ups and downs for the Mets.  They have won 23 out of their last 34 games to take a slight lead for a wild card berth.  Last night they fell behind 10-0 early on, but chipped away closed the gap to 10-8 as a 9th inning rally fell short.  Today their bats really came to life as they beat the Philles 17-0 which looks more like a football score.  Asdrubel Cabrera hit a grand slam home run while Jose Reyes drove in 4 runs.   It was encouraging to see 7 shutout innings by Robert Gsellman.  He may have to start a game if the Mets make it to Division series against the Cubs.

There are now 6 road games left against Miami and Philadelphia.  It was so said to hear of the death of Marlin Jose Fernandez's death in a boating accident.  Their game today against Atlanta was cancelled.  It will be hard for the Marlins to concentrate on baseball this last week of the regular season.  It is similar to the untimely death of Yankee Thurman Munson in a plane crash in 1979.

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Afternoon with The Beatles

I must congratulate Ron Howard for putting together so much concert footage to compile this documentary covering Beatles concerts from 1963-66.  I have seen many Beatles films over the years including The Compleat Beatles, but I saw so many new scenes.  50 years later the Fab Four still has great appeal no musical act in all these years have impacted generations of listeners.

The documentary is now seen on HULU, a subscription based streaming service, but it is being shown in selective theaters including the Kew Gardens Cinema.  At the end of the film, The Beatles at Shea Stadium from 1965 was shown.

I highly recommend this for Beatles fans of all ages.  A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

Uniden BC355N 800 MHz 300-Channel Base Mobile Scanner

You would think this guy has enough radios in his house.  Anyway after I got a little annoyed hearing mostly religious programs on the shortwave radio I got a few weeks ago I shopped in my beloved Amazon.com for a scanner.  I found this model at a reasonable price.  It is described as basic mobile scanner that's great for home or mobile use, with 300 storable channels, coverage of all the ""action"" bands, convenient features like ""close call"" and program lock, and a wealth of powering options for different applications. Receives conventional channels on the following frequencies: (25-54 MHz) (108-174 MHz) (225-380 MHz) (406-512 MHz) (806-956 MHz) (excluding cellular telephone bands.

I only had a little time before dinner to play with it.  It has bands for weather, police, fire and other emergency services.  I guess I have another toy.

Politically Incorrect Oldie - The Ten Commandments by Prince Buster

A few weeks ago I read about the passing of Prince Buster, a proponent of ska music in the 60s.  I first heard his hit Ten Commandments on Murray the K's show on WOR-FM.  Believe me it would not get any airplay if it was released today.

Biography of Prince Buster in the Wikipedia

Random Comments of the Day

This morning I took Lee to the endodontist (root canal specialist).  My plan was to leave for work when he was finished there.  I saw that there were terrible delays on New Jersey Transit as a result of the bomb going off near the Elizabeth station.  Rather than cope with commuter aggravation on a rainy day, I decided not to come in.  I have plenty of sick and vacation time and didn't have any meeting scheduled for today.

Later in the day I heard the police in Linden, NJ apprehended the perpetrator of recent terrorist bombings.  Thankfully nobody was killed, but what are these people trying to prove?

I took Lee to McDonalds for lunch where he heard Sunshine Superman.  He has picked out a Donovan CD to play during dinner tonight.

While I was home today I downloaded IOS 10 for my iPhone 6.  There are some subtle differences between versions of the operating system..

Yet Another Major Update from Microsoft

Microsoft gave everyone a year ending July 29 to get a free upgrade to Windows 10.  On August 2 they made an anniversary update available.  In both cases the user could pick the time to do the update.  Very often there are minor updates to Windows which may take about 10 minutes to download and install.  Today when I received an update, I thought it would just take a few minutes, but it took about 1 1/2 hours.  It turned out that is was Windows 10 Version 1607.

This week Apple offered IOS 10.  I have decided to wait a bit before I upgrade.

Mets 3 Twins 0

The Mets must sign Bartolo Colon to a contract for next season.  He also deserves some votes for the Cy Young Award.  He allowed only 3 singles in 7 innings as home runs by Jose Reyes and Asdrubal Cabrera lead the Mets to a 3-0 victory over the Twins in an interleague game.  The Mets now have a two game lead over the Cardinals for the second wild card berth and trail the Giants by only one game for the first wild card.

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