UConn James

Gandy. (Who, by the by, got owned in the Super Bowl).

I sincerely believe that even if Overdorf were to pony out the cash --- meeting the demands or more --- Peters would still dog it like he did quite often last year. Bill in NYC might go nuts, and I would ordinarily agree with him that you keep your young players and you especially keep your good young OL... but this situation isn't healthy. Peters doesn't have the desire to play here, for these people, anymore. If he got $12M/per his attitude toward this organization isn't going to change. Which sucks b/c if he had played this cooler from the start and didn't sulk last year, it could've been different. I would try to hold for a 1st and a 2nd in a trade. Move Walker over and/or see what Chambers has (looked impressive in the time he had). Draft a C in late 1/early 2 (Mack) and a T on day 1 and another for OL depth on day 2.

Three days a week for six straight weeks.... Uhmmm... they do know in Germany that a woman can only get preggers around her time of the month, right?

Admittedly, I've only caught bits and pieces of the show from the beginning. An ep here, 10 min there.... That finale was pretty out there.

at Hurley and Miles' time-traveling theory discussion. How did that not occur to Miles before... that Old Ben would know/remember the Losties/Freighties when they arrived in 2004. Dude's had 3 years and can talk to the dead, yet can't reason among the living. So, we find out that Kate gave Aaron to Claire's mother and that she told (?) all about everything that happened on the island. She stopped lying, except about Aaron. Am I right, that each one of the O6 told someone the truth, except Jack? And even he gave a cryptic message to his grandfather, Ray. Kate, always the one to run away from her troubles. Now she's running to something. Why all the discussion tonight about Kate needing Aaron... and then her admission that she knew he'd be lost/gone/taken. Why did she 'need' him? Or is that just going into her histrionics of the desire to settle down? Not for nothing that the woman in the market looked like Claire from behind, and even when she started to turn her head, I was saying, "Whhuu... Oh. OK." And still, there's the weird feeling... the psychic said it had to be Claire who raised Aaron (or, the couple in LA, if that was genuine.... I had thought Kate might give Aaron to Hurley's parents --- a couple in LA. "Man, I was way off!") --- but... Claire's mother is not Claire. Jack took the side that he would kill Baby Hitler. Juliet, Sawyer & Kate would let him live. And regardless, "Whatever Happened Happened." Jack didn't perform surgery, but what if he got it backwards? What if the island brought him there to do that in 1977, he didn't then and so he has to in 2004? So much for Sawyer being the 'only one with a plan' even tho he's winging it even more than the Losties ever did under Jack. And like I said, Jack isn't going to take this for long. And then comes maybe the biggest moment of the night, of course, near the end, as Richard takes Ben to the Temple. Maybe we'll learn next week what Richard means by, If he fixes Ben, he'll 'lose his innocence' and will always be an Other. (And what does this mean re: Widmore?). Whatever, next week's preview looked f---ing awesome, and I think we get a big dose of what the 'smoke monster' is vis-a-vis Ben being "judged." And in what sense he's being judged --- is it the traditional religious definition of judgment, his effectiveness as the Others' leader (and hence, by Jacob), or some kind of trial similar to Juliet's? Maybe we finally get to see what it was that Ben has in that box that he took out of the motel vent and put in his suitcase. And lastly, Locke is there for when Ben wakes up. Ben will come up with a story and lead Locke along on some new thing.... Crap. When the hell is Locke going to wake up and realize that people use him. That's all anybody does to him... except Helen, maybe. When might he guess that the Others are probably using him too?

I'm not a PETA acolyte by any means. But if we were to sign Vick, I would walk away forever... and I expect that any team that does sign him will face a sh--storm of a PR nightmare. I hold out hope that Gooddell will ban him from the game. I refuse to forgive what he did.

Dick Jauron.

The character of Dr. Bob Kelso on "Scrubs" is a heartless prig most of the time. There was one ep where he was challenged by Dr. Cox to treat actual patients in this day and age, where he finds out that it can be so hard to really connect and get a message through to a patient. I think in part, some doctors almost use this really sh--ty form of reverse-psychology as a last-ditch effort... It's like, 'If everything else hasn't worked, hate me. Motivate yourself by wanting in the worst way to make me look like a damn fool.' Staying healthy is a daily/hourly challenge; it's not something that you can put off until Saturday and hope to do a week's catch-up. Doesn't work like that. It's not easy, you need to be well informed and do the work in diet, exercise, and taking care of your general health. Best wishes, Grant.

A buddy of mine now working in upstate NY is now cleaning up as points go higher b/c he has UConn all the way.... He had it that way more out of loyalty to his home team than any certain firm belief. It's a every-5-year phenomenon w/ Calhoun I guess --- '99, '04, '09(?). As for me, I don't follow cbb during the regular season enough to warrant filling out a bracket.

Touche. Yes, that coincides nearer in the timeline ---mid-S2, whose flip would be Mid-S5... whereas Boone was late-S1. But even so, I don't see how Ben dies here. I am 100 percent certain he doesn't. The preview for this week's ep: "Whatever Happened, Happened" - Kate tries to save [Young] Ben. Kate starts to tell the truth about the lie in order to keep Aaron from harm.

Ooooh. You know, duey, you may not know the half of it about things being circular. For some time now, people have noticed that the plotlines are working like a parabola. OK, divide the number of planned episodes in half and the midway point (which we'll call M here) should be about late-S3. Work out from there and compare the M+1 and M-1, M+2 and M-2, etc., etc. and you will find similar plotlines. May involve different places or different places, but some of the same conditions are there. E.g. With Sayid in the Others' jail, the timeline to compare to will be mid-season 2... which is when Ben was in the Swan lock-up. You'll find much more of this stuff if you compare. The show is kind of looping back on itself. I believe Young Ben being shot approximately coincides with flip-side of when Boone was injured and Jack went to heroic attempts to save him, giving him his own blood until he was ashen-faced and piqued.

Just to show you what a POS this cop is.... You do not have to stop immediately. For instance, a number of women in CT were sexually assaulted by a man pretending to be a state trooper who pulled them over in a dark stretch of highway. Police are supposed to be trained and exercise the knowledge that it is allowable for drivers being stopped to pull into a lighted area or a place off of a main thoroughfare (for both safety and traffic purposes), as long as it's a reasonable distance, they drive slowly, and it's probably a good idea to point to where you're going to pull over, then explain why you did so. Absolutely heartless, especially after the nurse and fellow cop vouch, and I hope karma comes back around on him.

I don't know how it's going to work, but I don't see how Young Ben is dead. A) When Old Ben was locked up in the Swan and saw Sayid... well, what was going through his mind there? He did nothing to stop it from happening. He did nothing to stop Sayid from getting on the Ajira flight, tho he doubtless had a good notion that the O6, minus Sun, was going to be going back to '77. He let it happen b/c it had to happen. At least, that's my thoughts. We again see the younger brother taking the place of the older brother in a flashback, as we've seen previously with Eko (and to a lesser degree, with Charlie) that sets him down the course of a life he didn't specifically choose, and one from which he tries to break free from, but fails. Eko, in priest vestments killed the drug dealers, and said right before he died that he was not sorry for anything he did b/c he was doing the best he could. Sayid accepts that he is a killer. I was half-expecting a little half-retribution-look from Sawyer when Sayid was taken to Oldhouse(?). Didn't happen, and then again, it wasn't torture, as such was made out of the "He's our you." Still, they got the truth but couldn't understand it. Nice little girlie-moment b/w Kate and Juliet re: Sawyer... after the tour of the VW garage and tool locations. BTW, since they're in the '70s now, and all... could we get a little Kate&Juliet action? And for all of Sawyer's talk with Jack about having a plan, and that Jack just reacted to situations... 'bout everything Sawyer was doing last week and this week show that he's doing the same damn thing. Early baby? Well, Juliet's a doctor, get her. O6 arrive? Bring 'em some '70s clothes and put them on the roster. Sayid gets captured? Uhh... uhh... talk to him. DI leaders take a vote to kill Sayid? Uhh... go to the jail and let him escape, even tho most fingers would point to you, who was the only person who obviously didn't want to. Fire at New Otehrton? Didn't see that one coming! So far, we're getting a demurring response from Jack. How long does that last? Since Sawyer has given up on Faraday, I'm betting it's Jack that prompts him to poke around at the Orchid site.

Well, the Purge was in the early '90s, not '77. Also, regarding the bolded section, it would seem that this situation isn't 'illegal' if that's the word. Sawyer saw Kate and Claire in the woods at Aaron's birth during a timeflash. BTW, does anybody know what Sawyer was up to at that time in S1? If the group had time, I'm certain a duplicate November-Sawyer would've been found in the same way there were (eventually) four Martys at the mall in BTTF. Difference with Lost is that they're saying everything that happened, always happened, no changing it --- there were always 2 Sawyers at that time (that we know of, and for however briefly, but whatever he did would be part of the timeline)... whereas, Marty could keep coming back in multiple versions and change the past.

Maybe the unraveling of which it speaks is Sawyer's / LaFleur's master plan. From the end of last week's ep, it looks like Sayid has plans of his own... namely trying to kill Young Ben. Vouchsafe that, as we've all seen, the island will not allow for this to happen. Which I think will lead to Sawyer, however reluctantly, being the example for how Ben operates (not for nothing that they are both masters of the long con, and then with Sawyer's bit last week about how reading a book each night helps him think weighed in with Ben's own reading habits), so that what happens, can happen.

Theoretically, they could be. Doubt it, tho. They did not show Faraday approaching the "donkey wheel" during the Orchid's construction for nothing. We will be seeing events surrounding that in coming episodes. Also, two people seem to have done exactly that... what with the fairly-widely-agreed speculation that "Adam & Eve" are Bernard and Rose. I wonder why Sawyer/Jin/et al never found them in searching the island grid-by-grid "for our people" as mentioned in "LaFleur." Or, perhaps, they did find B&R and they just chose to live in the caves per Rose's wish to never leave the island. We'll see. There is no repeat episode being shown tonight. Nor next week, per listings. That sucks; I use it as a refresher and there were a couple of things I wanted to see again, mostly the shape behind Sun that people think is Claire. Tonight's ep is titled, "He's Our You" and is Sayid-centric. The promotional copy reads, "Things begin to unravel when one of the survivors goes rogue and takes matters into their own hands --- risking the lives of everyone on the island."

One spot, at a position that is heavily rotational in this system, on a team that is historically averse to starting rookies unless there's almost no other option. Nevermind that DTs are not so much pass-rushers in said system --- you can have the Second Coming at S... but if you can't pressure the QB, it's for naught. OK --- "next to nothing." Happy?

The only thing it is now is a $55M albatross. Even if the dude you get doesn't bust / is a gamer, you f--- your cap for the next 7 years. And for a cash-to-cap team like the Bills, it's untenable.

This is the same team that drafted Whitner and did nothing for the DL except throw re-up money at DEs who cannot pressure the QB. The front office can definitely do nothing for an area of need --- matter of fact, they've been among the best in the league at doing nothing, ignoring obvious problems and hoping they go away.

Or they could have called the police. 'Course, when no drugs were found, the school probably would've been sued. Instead, they pushed way too far beyond the boundary of a weasel-worded ruling from over 20 years ago and apply it to their lack of innovation to deal with today's problems. Ability to search a locker/bag somehow becomes ability to strip-search children? Everyone's always got to test the ever-extremest of limits of their power, don't they? Once again, the things of farce become all too real.... time was this sort of thing was confined to a that Adam Sandler "Assistant Principal's Big Day" skit.

There go about 3/4 of Kelsay and Schoebel's sacks, b/c most of the time when they do get anywhere near a QB, they're crawling on all fours and grabbing at their feet. Form-tackle sacks by either are rare. I think this renders heavy investment of talent into the DL down a notch. Why pick up an elite DE or DT when the league is moving toward play where the QB can't be touched? Combine that with the ever-increasing wave of enforcement of PI. They're taking defense out of the game. Better to invest in your offense, especially when you have one that is anything below-par like ours.

Interestingly, I read on ESPN's UniWatch blog a while back that in college games in the upcoming season, both teams will be allowed to wear their dark uniforms if there is reasonable difference in colors (e.g. Notre Dame in navy blue vs. USC in crimson). Don't know when/if the NFL would consider it.

Having a white throwback would be one step closer to a full-time change to the throwbacks. Be fully aware, tho, that this will only come after Ralph is gone b/c he has a raging case of 'Old Man Syndrome.' You know what this is... you walk into old peoples' houses and you step into the '70s b/c there's fierce resistance to changing anything unless it broke (and maybe not even then). For the new owner --- they are there, the design would be complete, they'd own the rights to use them, it's a five-second decision, no need to pay another design team and they have about 93% fan approval. And then we can stop having to discuss this all the time.

Timeframe is historically mid-April.

Poet, all MNF Pats* games are broadcast on WCVB-5 (ABC) in Boston. Don't know if you're in the coverage area, but a large swath of NE is.