Byrd is the Word
The Chicago Cubs went digging into Texas Rangers free agent outfielders again. This time, coming up with Marlon Byrd. He can’t be any worse than the 1 year, Milton Bradley Experiment. At least he comes cheaper and gets to continue working with the same hitting coach that seemingly turned around his career within the last 3 seasons ago, Rudy Jaramillo.
A quick look at his stats with Texas:
Marlon Byrd
| Year | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 377 | 1364 | 196 | 402 | 88 | 14 | 40 | 212 | .295 |
| 2007 | 109 | 414 | 60 | 127 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 70 | .307 |
| 2008 | 122 | 403 | 70 | 120 | 28 | 4 | 10 | 53 | .298 |
| 2009 | 146 | 547 | 66 | 155 | 43 | 2 | 20 | 89 | .283 |
Plugging In, Part II
Before I share some of the visual WordPress plugins, I have one more to add for backend support which I just ran across a couple of hours ago:
- Block Bad Queries by Perishable Press: A simple plugin that consists of a total of 849 bytes (which includes the plugin declaration all WP plugins contain). This is to help thwart malicious URL attacks the like of which attacked many WP blogs back in September ’09. A little more protection never hurts.
I’ll mention right from the start, that there are quite a few other plugins out there that I probably won’t mention, mainly because they are things I don’t use. On with the list:
Edited @ 9:15pm, 1/2/2010
Plugging In
I spewed about some themes earlier. It’s time to let loose about some plugins. This is mainly covering the backend or behind the scenes plugins. I’ll get to the plugins that make your blog space look all snazzy in a later posting.
Probably the two most important plugins, for me especially, after my web hosting snafu are:
- WP-DBManager by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan: It manages you WP database, allowing you to optimize, repair, backup and restore your database. You can schedule your backups and the database optimization. Backups are stored on your site and can also be emailed to you, if you so choose.
- WordPress Backup by Blog Traffic Exchange: Like WP-DBManager, except this will backup your uploads, current theme and plugins directory. Backups are stored on your site for easy download or can also be emailed to you.