• The Tampa Bay quarterback who led the Bucs to a thrilling 14-13 victory over the Bengals on Sunday was Bruce Gradkowski, not Brad as originally reported.

• The phrase “thank you, thank you, thank you brad gradkowski” should have read “Thank you, thank you, thank you Mike Carey!” for his inexcusable roughing the passer call that gave the Bucs a late first down they clearly didn’t deserve and contributed directly to their win.

• A more general correction than the others, I’d like to retract all statements that made it seem like I respect or fear the Bengals. They are not deserving of fear or respect. They are, and remain, the Bengals.

• In my Penguins On Way To Ontario Via Portable Information Superhighway, I mentioned that I was the only SoC’er who liked hockey. That sentence should have read “I’m the only person who likes hockey”.

• Less a correction than premature gloating, I called in my Week One Review On Computer post that Steve McNair would get hurt, Kyle Boller would go in, and the Ravens would end up 8-8.

• Turns out people do care about baseball in the autumn. It’s just such a foreign notion to a Pirates fan that it took on a mythical quality, and I was more inclined to believe in Poseidon (the god of the sea, not the movie) than think I’d be interested in baseball in October. Enter Jim Leyland’s Detroit Tigers. How about that AL central?

The jig is up, Baz.  Now we know why he hardly ever drops a ball…he has glue on his hands.

Eh?  Eh?

E-mail exchange:

Dusty: ……we’ve done a HORRIBLE job of trash-talking this week. Probably cuz I’m preeeeeetty sure the giants are gonna win.

Geoff: Is it insufficiently modest to say that I’m cautiously optimistic that you’re right? Yeah, bad trash-talking.

Dusty: Then again, our D is playing well, and your D sucks. So our strengths are matched up, and our (current) weaknesses are matched up. if out D keeps it up, and our O finally starts playing, we should win.

Geoff : Hey! Fuck you! Our D doesn’t suck! YOU suck! Nah, our D sucks. You’re gonna win.

Dusty: No, no, I didn’t mean it. YOU’RE gonna win (seriously, we’re HORRIBLE at this)

In case you didn’t notice, a great portion of our trash talk is focusing on how bad we are at it.

I nearly forgot.

Ladies and gentlemen? YOUR 2006 American League East Division Champion New York Yankees!

And just to show that he’s not always the devil, The Unit got in on the fun!

What fun! Oh, no, wait, he’s trying to drown him. Randy!