http://getupbaby.net Abusing Tony Womack and Photoshop filters since late 2003. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:17:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Are you like me? Have you not edited your RSS feeds since 2004, or whenever it was you first discovered RSS? If that's the case--for that is the only reason, I would imagine, that you would have GUB and not Viva El Birdos in your RSS folder--then you will be ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1774 It's not often I go non-Cardinals on this blog, but wow--who would have guessed that Mike Mussina would finally pick up win #20 a year after he looked completely done? I don't think a third of an inning has ever helped an uninvolved player's Hall candidacy more than the one ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1773 Kennedy to Cardinals: Play me or trade me. Well, alright. Look, I--let me pull it up. Yeah, I was on the record as stating that the Adam Kennedy signing was a great deal (additional pullquote: "... with Blake Hawksworth and Chris Narveson pretty close to the majors..."), but from every port ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1771 I'm always late to the party. Derrick Goold and the UCB (I can't see that without thinking Upright Citizens Brigade) have already done their Top Seven blogs, and they're all well thought out. That means there's room, in the market, for one that's not well thought out--and that's where I ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1769 I'm hard at work on my own (several days late) top seven prospects, because it's what all the cool kids are doing, but in the interest of breaking up my usual two month gap between posts: a roundup. Over at Future Redbirds Erik brings a new Cardinal signing to our ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1770 The internet hive-mind strikes again: apparently The Machine is not quite a phantom nickname so much as an abandoned one. Commenter Dave Newman suggests that, according to This Week in Baseball, the rest of the Cardinals began calling him by that name at some point; zip goes even further, mentioning ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1768 As promised--as promised late, even--a look at how players with less of a reputation for inconsistency perform when subjected to the arbitrary measure of removing their five best calendar weeks. Here is what we have, from Troy Glaus, to measure by. Glaus's 740 OPS is just 62% of his 1203 ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1767 At the Cardinals game last night (eww) I was surprised to hear continued criticism, from the people in the stands, leveled at Troy Glaus. Wait--given the game, it's prohbably best to say that I was surprised to hear criticism leveled specifically at Troy Glaus. After all, his OPS is a ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1766 Five innings, two runs, four strikeouts, three walks. How, you ask, do I make such predictions? Science. http://getupbaby.net/?p=1763 It's fitting: on a day in which Dan Haren leads the National League in ERA, the Cardinals have traded Anthony Reyes. The haul is a minor league righty reliever, old for his levels, who will have to get in line behind Mark Worrell, Jason Motte, and, if La Russa ... http://getupbaby.net/?p=1762