`Hey, didn't you used to be Mike Holmgren/Martz?' (Caught On The Fly).

* Welcome to COTF, which this week stands for: "Come October, Twins fall."

* Speaking of the play-offs, Fly's Top 5 or "For openers, the closers are the key because their questions about health, confidence or postseason inexperience are exclamations": 1. Mo Rivera; 2. Izzy; 3. Byung-Hyun Kim; 4. Billy Koch; 5. Everyday Eddie.

* Michael Vick, keeper? Sure, but that's also the best ground option for the Falcons because their backfield's still plenty scrambled despite some major offseason additions. By themselves, Warrick Dunn and T.J. Duckett are fine, but they're having a hard time playing together. T.J.'s a load, but as a leading man he won't knock your block off, causing Dunn to have some Mike Alstott flashbacks.

* Speaking of the Falcons, Vick's finding those Monday morning wakeup calls (snap!) are getting (crackle!) a li'l harder to answer (pop!). Sure, the kid's only 22, but that doesn't mean the Atlanta brass isn't putting a bug (shaddup!) in his ear that it's OK to slide/step out of bounds a little more often than the Braves sell out a postseason game.

* Peter Forsberg can tick off his looong list of past aches--you got your shoulder, spleen, feet, pinkie, hip, blah, blah, blah--but when it's time to list those Cups, he has to stop at two, when a dynasty shoulda/coulda/woulda been cemented by now. But now he's suh-wearin' that he ...