UConn James

I would think that the NFLPA would look at what happened to MLB and the NHL in the most recent strikes in major sports. They both took a SERIOUS blow in revenues b/c people find it hard to relate to a guy who stays home from work b/c $12M/year isn't enough for him. MLB is only now getting to about 70-75 percent level; NHL is playing their games of on the friggin' OLN. I would think that. But considering how everything about the NFL and NFLPA is "ME!ME!ME!"-oriented, making an assumption of common sense is skating on thin ice.

Switch in "car" and there's Teddy Kennedy's thoughts, to a T. Goes to show that even 40 years removed, you get what you give. And that is why we talk about flight suits, bulgies in suits during presidential debates, et cetera instead of sitting down over a nice glass of 20-year-old Scotch and finally coming to the conclusion that Social Security needs some drastic overhaul, that veterans aren't getting the care they need from the VA, why asbestos compensation legislation that won't use taxpayer dollars has been wisping like a ghost through the halls of Congress for decades.....

1) Never been this bad? I suggest you do some further research and base your argument less on off-the-cuff emotion of MEDIA BAD! Can anyone say 'idealized past'? If you don't like it, you are well within your rights to turn off the radio, disconnect the Internet, unsubscribe from your newspaper, dismantle your satelite dish and live in a cave. Save for some classic rock stations and the Internet (which is getting harder and harder to justify spending $15/month), I'm almost there myself. 2) You think it was just meant to bust up conspiracies. Well, hell, let's just go ahead and change the Constitution then! 3) Whether they are "worthy of those freedoms"? WTF is this crap? Let me don the headgear of Karnak the Magnificent.... You believe that certain of media outlets are worthy, while certain of others are not. 4) Just like the Islamics burning, killing, rioting over a fecking cartoon, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO NOT BE OFFENDED!!!!!!!

True, that. But I would hopethat the majority of owners are wise enough to value the long-term success it will bring (look at how much the NFL's market share and earnings have jumped just since the cap was imposed) rather than the short-term ability to fix one's cap situation b/c you gave several players more money than they were worth.. You can, of course, cross Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones off this list out of hand.

Reads pretty high on the bullsh-- meter to me. 'Henry' knew exactly what was happening. Notice how he kept asking Sayid personal questions, trying to connect with him? The idea behind that is if you establish a personal rapport with someone, it's harder to hurt them, or whatever. But that line... "My name is Sayid, and I am a torturer!" And yes, for someone who remembers what the exact weights and percentages of gases in his balloon, that he stuttered/didn't respond to how deep the grave was means he didn't ever dig one. That's not a question the Others would probably prepare for, and he got caught right there. The closing scene with Sayid talking to Charlie was interesting too. Sayid was doing much the same as the CIA guy was when he showed the video of the sarin attack. That time has lessened fear that the Lostaways should have for the Others. He was talking to Charlie, perhaps, b/c he'd been a near-victim and in how he shot Ethan, is most likely be an ally to Sayid. But also, people are talking to Charlie again (tho, those who are have something gain by doing so); they sure have short memories on who's supposed to be ostracized.....

Nope. 'Zeke' is not Clancy Brown. And that's something pretty major that they wouldn't do on this show. ----- Also, the captive's name is 'Henry Gale.' On a balloon. Wizard of Oz, anyone?

They kind of looked like hyroglyphics(?). I remember the bird and the feather-shaped one. I don't have the deciphering book anymore, nor any way to rewatch the ep. So, we know that the countdown, or for ~5 seconds after the countdown, nothing happens and you can still enter the code. Some of them were red drawing on black background, some were vice versa; different from the white/black imagery used so far in it. We'll see if they start experimenting with this. Sure looked like Kate. This is the time period where they had the video of Sayid being led in handcuffs that was playing in the recruiting office. I didn't recognize her 'father' but he's only had about 2 minutes of screen time and he was in the Kevlar helmet here. And so, we can establish this time period as 1991, which for some reason, despite all evidence showing this back in the What Kate Did ep, some people were contesting that it was 2003. It's now fact that Kate was on the run for more than 10 years! ----- To run down, I'd first say this was the best episode this season. It was back to that feeling of 'Where did the time go; that felt like 15 minutes!' First off, in the side-story, Sawyer getting worked up by the tree frog's noises. It's weird how they write him, and this does go back to last season. One week he's the bad man, and the next he's kind of pathetic, asking, "Will you help me?" Hurley gets caught chowing on a private stash.... Not cool to hoard food, dude. Some tree frog species are poisonous. Sayid joins the Jack vs. Locke power struggle. Saw that same Jack-ness return when he was holding Locke back from going to the computer. I keep wanting to get a slow-mo of what numbers are flashed one by one when that ticker is going all out, but I have neither the time nor the means to do it. Sayid's backstory. Again, he says to the captive guy (I forget his name already) that before he learned to torture he was a "good man" --- there's that phrase again --- but that deep w/in there was always a part of him that could become that torturer. Clancy Brown as the CIA-type guy; he was really good in "The Shawshank Redemption." Anywho, I'm trying to think about what the parallels are b/w the main story and the flashback, b/c there's always parallels for each character. I'll have to sleep on it. That final look the guy gave, you know he's an Other. And Sayid is right --- sometimes you just know something is true; w/o any evidence or anything, you just know. There's a part that does want to believe the captive, like when he was describing the balloon, but that's the thing about the Others; they have detailed preset stories, just like Goodwin with the Peace Corps....

Satellite or over-the air antenna. ANYTHING but cable!!

Depends even then. After my uncle got divorced the third time, he told us that if he ever went to get married again, to take him out in the middle of the woods with some rope and a shotgun. He went in for the fourth about five years later, and we showed up at his door (this is several states away) with said materials. He laughed his ass off. And, to note, he just divorced the fourth after ~15 years.

Ooooo! That's a pretty cool theory with the numbers providing for power generation in the hatch(es). I was thinking exactly that, and that if the numbers stop, the power unit stops working. But tractor beam magnetism every time someone misses the countdown clock? That's inspired! I like it. I'm anxious to hear what the guy they catch has to say. But how can Zeke and the Others have gotten there on the pirate ship? That thing's like 200 years old, at least. Unless you're implying that people live forever on the island....

Get your facts straight, you lemming! They break to 2-hour high-speed car and motorcycle chases, too!!! To the topic, this is like news that I won't have to pay taxes to support a diddler who molests my children. What the eff is the problem?

I've got a Jeep too. '93, so I'm even less worried than most about getting crap all over it. <low whistle> Are they not the perfect vehicle?

What time Joe and Tom will meet in Chicago if Joe is on a train leaving Kansas City that goes 50 mph and Tom is on a bus from Boston that goes 70 mph is an abstract on a piece of paper. A 300-pound DLman coming across the line is a jolt. Maybe Peters had to pee during the Wonderlic just like Losman. Maybe he's not good at book learnin' but is great at hands-on instruction/football prodigy like the guy in that movie "The Program." Most of us walk a narrow path in life, and we're all good at certain things and not others. JP showed some good stuff in his time, against some good DEs. That said, he could always turn into a Robert Hicks. I'd say we sign him to a pretty safe contract, 2 or 3 years and a middle-of-the-road $ figure.

It's snowing lightly again here, right now. I'd say up here in the far NE corner of CT, we got 14-16 inches, it's harder to tell b/c gusts blew it around. Plowed and shoveled out this morning and like Pete said, it's really light stuff. Looking out my window again and it's now stopped. I'll take an occasional blizzard as long as I can live in the county that was rated as the Most Protected From Natural Disaster in the US, in a fairly exhaustive study. Nice not to have to deal with hurricanes very often (and by the time they get up here in the hills, they've usually petered out), earthquakes, droughts, floods, you name it. And four distinct seasons to boot. Gas prices are another story, but I recently found a town nearby in MA that has $2.12/gal when everyone else around here is in the $2.35 range.

1)I didn't mean to come across as an ass, either. It's just that that whole "Walt Controls the Universe" theory was brought up in like the 4th ep of S1, and then every other week after that. It's been established, and there's nothing really new to report on it. 2) I think that's entirely probable. Michael wasn't "well" at that point. Combined with there being a lot of text on the screen one moment, then Jack walks in and then there's nothing, and from when Locke entered the wrong number once and had to delete, the dinosaur sh--box computer wasn't backspacing very fast. You do the math there.

Actually, Bob Woodruff was a high-powered corporate attorney before he got thralled into the news world and stayed b/c he liked reporting. I don't know and wouldn't hazard a guess as to his personal politics. He got caught in the IED b/c he was there to report on the progress of the Iraqi military. Some say he was stupid for not riding in the U.S. vehicles that had armor.... But when you're doing a story about Iraqis, you ride with the Iraqis. Wrong place, wrong time. It takes some stones to go over there w/o a weapon just so people back home can see in the scant time he's got to do his story what 1/1,000,000,000 of the Iraq situation is like. And really, that's what any reporter is doing over there. Need to combine them all to get a clearer picture, and even then it's not complete by a long shot but they're not Superman.

Very original thought it is, too.

Observation that I failed to include yesterday: Sawyer sitting in the car counting, "One Mississippi, Two Mississippi...." compared to Jack's "One. Two. Three. Four. Five" method.

Think about where her mouth is when she stands next to TV execs. Perfect placement in the 'How Do I Get On TV' milieu.

Touche. I still think reason #2 is the trump card. So many other areas that need to be addressed, getting a DE would be a luxury. I do think the DEs would/will benefit from the new scheme and adding a DT like Nagala(?).

At some point, that kid gets gunshy and it'll never leave him. You WASTE a high QB pick when you don't have an adequate OL in place. This has been shown time and again and GMs keep trying to fit the square peg into the round hole.

Is the "Is Team" kind of like the A-Team? I used love that show.... Shoebel is in the mold of Phil Hansen, who is an adequate DE by himself, but when paired with the right DE partner, they'd be better together than they'd be apart. Kelsay is not that DE, but I'd give him another year b/c 1) he's been here 2 years; this is his make-or-break season (and iirc, it's his contract year so he'll have that extra push) and 2) we have SO many more pressing needs right now; we can draft a DE high next year if a solution doesn't present itself this year. And I think a change in scheme from JG's 'BLITZ EVERY DOWN!' will help out this D. Paup was a LB in the 3-4.... but to be fair, he often was lined up at the LOS.

Madden brought some of his tired schtick to MNF but it has tapered off drastically. And this year was probably the best I've seen of him, and I think that's a combination of now being familiar/comfortable with Michaels and that the producers of MNF have helped him a LOT in getting rid of the repetition, guffawing and general hucksterism. When you ask Michaels, he absolutely gushes about the producers. (I've spoken to a couple who work in int'l soccer, NBA and NFL and they compliment Michaels right back). When they were so new to the scene, I doubt FOX was heavily investing in their staffing.

And yet, this was something that was puzzling me today. How does Sawyer intend to use the guns? With the Others bearing down on them, is he somehow going to fend them all off by hisownself, carrying all 100 guns at the same time? No. The only way they can be used effectively is to have numerous people having a gun. One person having them all is a detriment to all of their security. This con provided Sawyer w/ a lot of perceived power w/in the group, but no real kind of protection if the sh-- hits the fan. To extend the metaphor of guns=money (and maybe make my point a little clearer), this situation is like Scrooge McDuck having all of the known money in the world in his money silos. Everyone else hasn't a penny, and there's nothing the Scrooge really needs that he would give anyone any money for. So, what's the point of him keeping the money if he can't spend it? It becomes essentially worthless that way b/c money must pass and be in circulation to produce any good effect on the economy.