Ok I am going to make this very simple.  Tony Ugoh is as good a player as Bill Polian says he is regardless of what we think or say.  Before you start bringing up his occasional poor play or lack of focus, think about what we gave up to draft him and the recent comments made by Mr. Polian.  More after the jump.

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I think we can all agree that after the Rolen trade most of us are looking at next year.  In doing so we need to get some of these AAA and AA prospects a taste of the bigs, I am talking about Snider and Dopirak and to a lesser extent Cooper. 

Last nights game(s) proved it, with Millar in the bigs doing exactly what I thought.  In fact earlier on the trade deadline thread I made mention that I should be traded for Millar because I can't field the first base position and I strikeout but I am great in the clubhouse.  He proved me right last night, and wow did it suck!!!  The second game is the one played in AAA, two days after Dopirak's monster 2 Hr and 7 RBI game Moonraker decides he doesn't want to be shown up and blasts 4 count em 4 Doubles and 5 RBI.  If we are waiting for him to find his swing I think he just found it, over the last 10 games he is hitting .390/.456/.733 for a ridiculous 1.189 OPS.  TIME TO BRING HIM UP!!!

And dump Millar (not Inglett as he provides greater flexibility in the positions that he can play) for Snider, when the September call ups start I had better see Dopirak and Cooper on the list.  If not I fear that johnnyg's jeopardy game will become all to real and not stay make belief. 

Dopirak last 10 .310/.333/.500

Cooper last 5 .263/.263/.736  (his previous 4 games he went 0 for 15) plus it's only his second full season in the minors.

I was going thru some of the other SB nation sites when I came across this at Brew Crew Ball (Brewers Blog).

http://www.brewcrewball.com/2009/7/21/956525/if-traded-can-halladay-request

Not to get into too many specifics but it looks like if Halladay wants a trade and the scenario doesn't work out and he requests another trade that he would then only be eligible for free agency after 2012.  If this is true then why would teams not use this to their advantage when trading for soon to be free agency eligible players, if not then sorry for wasting your time.  Hugo maybe you can have a quick peek and provide some lawyer insist or at the very least convert it into lay-mans terms.

So we have all seen that alignment the Colts D has been running, with 3 down lineman and usually Raheem Brock playing a stand up DT kinda thing.  He either rushes or drops into coverage.  I thought when they ran it last night they had some decent pressure on the QB but poor tackling resulted in conversions for the Jags.  Brock had his sack out of this formation which changed the course of the game significantly.  So why don't they run this more with either Mathis or D. Free playing that position?  Somebody had made the comment that if either of them played in a 3-4 as an OLB (ala James Harrison, Demarcus Ware, Joey Porter) that they could have sick sack numbers.  This is because of the angles they would get on the Tackles.  

I think this may be a formation (with 93 & 98) that comes out in the playoffs, sort of like a rabbit out of the hat.  I could be wrong thought.

This was off of the Indy star site, doesn't say who is going to be cut but my guess is a linebacker maybe Senn or Davis.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080920/SPORTS03/80920009

Is this a good move or not?  I think it depends on if the player who is cut signs with another team.  I guess we now know that Giordano is not playing, somehow I thought that maybe Jackson would be the emergency safety with one of the nickel or dime backs going to corner.