UConn James

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.

Week 1 is often a weird time for clubs. The unexpected can happen 1) b/c there's not much tape 2) coaches are feeling things out / getting a feel 3) defenses often have the upper hand in the early weeks when offenses have yet to click. Case in point is the 31-0 blanking we put on them a few years back. (Likewise, they beat us 31-0 in the season finale that same year).

Wait, wait wait.... So you're saying that Belichick doesn't sh-- gold? Blasphemer!

No we don't, and you can't make me! My daddy owns the team, and he doesn't want me stepping in any dookies. Sincerely, Linda Bogdan, chief OL scout, Buffalo Bills

To be serious for a second.... Do the Bills have a representative there in Ralph's place? (Guess that's just too difficult a question to ask for I-reporters. They might have to actually call someone.)

Hell, look at my alma mater in the mid-late 80s.... And then Scottie Burrell with "The Shot."

Carla Berube. And yes. But that whole '94 team was something else. There's been a long string of those 'heck of a player' for Auriemma. To count that high, I'd have to tally all my fingers, take off my shoes and unzip my fly. Imagine if Shea Ralph hadn't blown out her knee (twice. I know I guy who knew her who was literally in tears the second time. He was filling in for color analyst on the local radio broadcast) and yet she was still an animal on that floor chasing balls oob, etc.

I didn't catch the whole game, but the score says a lot. I don't know 'bout people wanting to scrap the bids --- it's seemed to work for a while now, and small-conference winners have produced their share of excitement. Parity rules, but no one really expects a #16 seed to look good vs. a #1 anyway. Congrats for getting to the tourney. As for the women's team, I 'bout think Geno would have had a triple-double... There were many people on-campus in 2004 (when they both won the championships) who said the women's team would've beaten the men's head-to-head. There'd been rumors that they played pick-up and Taurasi kicked a--.

Well, all the things that enabled them all to get back to '77 and change the history of the DI are what led to the DI being what it was. W/o them, it wouldn't have happened exactly as it did. The universe course correcting to make sure than what happened happens. Does fate outweigh free will? I think the answer so far in this show is a resounding, Yes! As the Locke-Jack debate has shown to be in Locke's favor --- "All roads lead here." Perhaps what you write about is the goal of the coming "war." To break the inevitability of whatever future that the Numbers equation quantifies/predicts(?). There was a Youtube video released by the show that shows a Dharma discussion of the numbers... it was pretty vague still, but explained their determination to change them.

Yep. I said that about the runway while watching it. Did not catch a repetition of the numbers... I'll look for it in the replay next week. .... Also didn't catch the Claire appearance. Nice. Jack said a surprised, 'Faraday's here too?!' to which Sawyer said something like 'Sort of.' And yes, the implication of that is that Daniel is there but here's not "there." The blabbering that started after the disappearance of Charlotte's body (and Daniel seeing what is presumed to be Young Charlotte) looks like it lasted. From my reading ahead Faraday's role is not finished, by far and it involves [white fonted for spoiler] the sub. Or, rather, that he is having a Desmond-like experience. Tho, Ben's portents of the future may be more due to diligent research than to actual visions. As such, Ben's plans are much more elaborate than Desmond's free-wheeling it while he was saving Charlie... and with none of the 'should I try to change things' moral questions that plagued Des. And still, the things Ben is doing have happened and will always happen in the Vonnegut-esque Tralfamadorian concept of time/history.

BarryBrady/Fake-Fat Sunny/Pyrite Gal/etc. also was in serious need of an editor. Always said he could edit his stream-of-consciousness posts if he wanted to... but he didn't want to. I also don't think posters were too lazy or stupid to read his posts. Any time I would try, I would find myself with early symptoms of an aneurysm and getting really angry at trying to fill in and correct in my mind what he was trying to say (since he didn't bother with grammar, spell-check or to edit). Also a problem was that he would take 100 lines to say the same damn point over and over and over when his argument could have been done with one line. It was like that Lewis Black routine of "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."

I don't mean to sound like a dick here, but you are living in an alternate state of reality.

Like your first inclination, I also think I remember her saying 'Jin' in there somewhere. Can you bring up Closed Captions on Tivo?

The stevestojan thing... it was the filter for 'sh--' for a long time. Joke, from old. Ummm... I don't know if I'd call it aggravation, and we all well understand the limitations of medicine. (I do not have these problems myself, thankfully). A lot of medicine is a guessing game, trial and error and robbing Peter to pay Paul who originally stole it from Mary. Blaming doctors for freaky sh-- and things out of our scientific/medical understanding at this time... I don't bag on that b/c I am not a trial lawyer. Our limitations are something we have to live with and just hope that cures come around for the various and sundry ailments of the body human (the mapping of the human genome, as people in the know say, was a big step, but results/actual common treatments from that are probably a couple of generations away, realistically). And, with that said, the 'Practice' quip stands. Yeah, to the bolded section. Unless any litigation from any resulting cases brought by a doctor are totally sequestered or a secret filing, this is a situation where any publicity is decidedly bad publicity, unless it's outright provable slander. And I don't know why existing slander/libel law isn't enough... except that it pertains to poste-factum and is subject to various protections, the foremost being truth, etc.... whereas this seems to have the chilling effect of the client to say anything about treatment, and w/o conditions of those protections e.g. even if what you say is 100% true, the doctor can still sue for service disparagement.

First, did anyone catch (or did anyone Tivo?) what Kate said just after Jin drove off in the Jeep? I read ahead and knew that Amy's baby would likely be Ethan... but that also didn't come as a surprise. In 2004, that would make him 27. Maplethorpe looks quite a bit older than his character... but then again, I went to high school with someone I would've guessed was 40, and she was 18. Some people just get those genes, I guess. We met Radzinsky(?), the guy who (according to Kelvin, the CIA spook played by Clancy Brown) killed himself in the hatch. Find out that he's the one who actually designed it. Still don't know what exactly powers it, whether it's the Jughead bomb as has been suggested, and if so, how they might have acquired Jughead from Richard's group/Others and where it'd been for those 23 years. Huh!... 23. Interesting about Sawyer reading books to help him think. This is a trait of Ben's earlier in the series which vouchsafe is not a coincidence. Combine that with Young Ben's appearance to Sayid. So, Ben knew exactly what he was dealing with from the start, from the moment he read their profiles, and when Sayid tortured him in the hatch. He pretty much knew everything that was going to happen before it happened. Just waits for the right time and for the right triggers to act. Most everything else seemed straightforward. So, I'll commentate on "Jim Lafleur" saying a big ol' 'I'm in charge here, now!' Quite a role reversal for Jack... and one I don't think he's going to handle very well. Started with his aptitude being set for him as a janitor --- that's a slap in the face. I don't think this "great man" has much intention of taking orders. Preview next week seems to suggest the Lostaways being pitted all against each other. The board is setting up for the game to begin.