Surely the Giants intend on breaking their five-game losing streak tonight.Īside from a revamped bathroom and a couple of additional TVs, Grumpy’s looks much the way it did in 2008: dollar bills on the ceiling, an illustration of a bulldog on the wall. Fresh off a hike in the Marin Headlands, we’re in high spirits. I’m here with Colin, who I’ve known since 1986, when we were a couple of three-year-olds in daycare. My most recent visit to Grumpy’s occurs under much happier circumstances, although I’m once again unemployed. The beer was almost as cold as the news of my termination. My first job out of college - Staff Editor at San Francisco Magazine - was eliminated.Īfter calling my dad and breaking the news, I walked across the street to Grumpy’s, where the publisher of the magazine bought me a consolation bottle of Budweiser. Much the way it is now, only fewer paywalls. Print journalism was a dying medium, a quaint antiquity. It was the end of 2008, at the height of the Great Recession. One of the last times I was at Grumpy’s, I had just been laid off from San Francisco Magazine. So how did the 27-year-old rookie who was designated for assignment in 2013 do it? “I’m still not sure what happened out there,” Heston says after the game.
Did I mention he also has two hits and two RBI? That’s three called strikeouts to end the game, Heston’s ninth, tenth, and eleventh K of the night.
Tejada takes the count to 2-2, then watches a whip-cracking strike shoot right through his wheelhouse and into the glove of Buster Posey.
But he strikes out Danny Muno on three quick pitches, then catches Curtis Granderson looking - for the third time of the night.įinally, it’s Ruben Tejada. Heston is visibly nervous, seemingly short of breath. Recker is the third Met to be hit by a pitch tonight (the first two, in the fourth, were consecutive). I get a text from my dad: “Mom’s a wreck watching Heston.”Īfter running the base paths in the top of the inning, Heston opens the bottom of the ninth by hitting Anthony Recker. The third one is hit sharply to short, and if it were anyone but Brandon Crawford fielding this greased-up one-hopper, it might be a hit. The eighth inning is similar: three quick groundouts. (Am I allowed to flip the channel during the inconsequential part of a no-hitter?) I flip to the Warriors game, realizing I’m something of a fair-weather fan myself. I’m just in time to see Lucas Duda ground out to short, then Michael Cuddyer fly out to right. WoWScrnShot_012610_205611.jpg (167.Dropping my bag when I arrive, I scramble for the remote. To me the most important thing is to be able to get all the information I need with a quick glance. I'm also a huge sucker for organization, so I often leave empty spaces between groups of icons and keep the most important ones in the middle. You can't see it in the UI, but I have tons of stuff bound via BindPad: namely mount/dismount, pet attack and return, some traps, aspecs and track humanoids/beasts. Things that appear when you hover them aren't exactly my thing either. Due to me having to use a minimal monitor (1024圆00, my mini laptop can't handle WoW on the bigger screen), I need to find a way to have everything accessible without filling up the whole screen. I for one prefer the unaltered UI for the most part. The topic about addons made me think of another subject: what does your UI look like? Do you like it simple or would you rather have everything visible at all times?