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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5236340 seriously?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2010 -> 03:02 AM) If Wade is so loyal, how come he hasn't re-signed with Miami yet? $$$$

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 29, 2010 -> 02:51 AM) No your not the only one, and it is actually getting mixed reviews by people not only in Chicago, but around the world (hell even people in Canada are mixed on it) and I'm not even just talking about basketball fans. Me three years ago, probably hates it as much as you do. It doesn't bother me as much now, even though I'm more of a basketball guy. I was actually gonna hold off my thoughts on it till your post. Yeah, I might even be fine with it if they made it a Jordan 23 Hawks jersey(sweater). But there is absolutely no reason to ever put a jersey that does not read Jordan on that. Jordans brought 6 rings to this city, Toews has brought the same amount I have.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 28, 2010 -> 02:35 PM) Sox game I was at last year, we had an epic wave going. It went 3-4 times around the stadium, with lower bowl and upper decks involved and synchronized. It was great. Waves are never great. The only time I think they're acceptable is if it is at a college sporting event and it was started by the student section. Am I the only one upset over the Jordan statue having hawks gear all over it? I mean I'm not a big hockey fan considering this is my first post in this thread, but that statue is basically sacred in my mind. Obviously I am probably going to get ripped on for posting it in this thread, but I still feel that way.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ May 27, 2010 -> 09:22 AM) Neither Penny nor Juliet were season 1 characters. And Boone and Shannon reallllllly shouldn't have been there. Ya but I'm sure they had a Sawyer love interest in the making before season 1, and since Desmond and Penny showed up in season 2 I'm sure they knew who Penny would be because of how big they made Charles Whidmore out to be.

The best part of that ^ is this Obviously theres no way of knowing if thats true or not, but if it is that's really cool.

I know this is a wall of text, but its a really awesome read. I found this on a digg comment, and its in a few other places but supposedly this is from a guy who worked with bad robot and actually wrote for the show. Edit: found the link to the original one http://lostmediamentions.blogspot.com/2010...-on-finale.html

More from ozzie. "Sometimes he thinks f---ing people pay to watch him f---ing umpire.'' Oz on Joe West. and "No matter what you say, what you do, how long you talk here, Major League Baseball doesn’t do s--- for anything.'' Oz I hope ozzie enjoys his days off, but at least he said what we were all thinking.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ May 26, 2010 -> 01:36 PM) You didn't make an answer; you did what the writers did: shifted a mystery from one place to another. Why are the Others doing what they are doing? -Because Jacob tells them to. Why does Jacob tell them to do these things? ... How did Jacob become some kind of demi-god? -Some woman gave him powers. So how did she have powers? What was she? ... Why can't Smokey leave the island? -It's a Rule. What are the Rules? ... You can play that game forever if you wanted to. Why why why why why why why why.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ May 26, 2010 -> 12:24 PM) Bulls***. Of course it is the writers faults because they realized a large percentage of people were watching Lost for the mysteries and unraveling of the mysteries which is why they ended basically every episode with a cliffhanger and some new mystery for people to obsess over. As a result they kept digging themselves a deeper and deeper whole with respect to the mysteries of the island and then couldn't find a way to tie it together. People sure as hell weren't obsessing over Kate becoming a mother or whether Jack would become a man of faith. They were not obsessing over that because its hard to talk about what happened to the characters because what happens to them happens, its a lot easier to make a theory about the island then a theory about what Jack is going to do next.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 26, 2010 -> 11:23 AM) We'll, there's no convincing you otherwise, but to me I think a lot of these things have answers. You can't explain every mysterious thing. They might not have come out and had two people have dialogue about it, but there's enough there for you to draw your own conclusion. Some stuff they introduced and never got back to, but it's not like they dwelled on anything for so long and then just ignored it (without a reasonable explanation why, like the Walt thing). They gave hints as to what the answer is/should be for 99% of the important unknowns. As to the bolded, what would have been sufficient? Do you need to know the history of everything introduced on the show? Why not be pissed that you didn't get the entire life stories of each character? They answered all of the important questions - who these people were, what the island was, why they arrived on the island, and ultimately how they left and ended their lives. Thank you. For example Jacob controlled who he wanted on the island, and maybe he made a rule or didn't allow people to have babies on the island because of it. There I just used information from the show to make an answer that was not given to me. It's not that hard.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 25, 2010 -> 08:08 PM) It was a show that raised questions about a mysterious island, and then preceding not to answer half of those questions, while the writers desperately sought to justify this decision by screaming, “It’s all about the characters.” It’s not. It was never about that, it was about the circumstances that these characters were thrown into and how they coped, and what they learned. Ultimately, these characters could have met and grown close anywhere. Why did they need to meet on an Island of unexplained coincidences so they could go to heaven together? Read what you just wrote, and then tell me its not a character driven show. You just wrote in your post that it was without realizing it. Yes it could have happened anywhere but they choose to have it happen on a mysterious island, and not the supermarket down the street.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 25, 2010 -> 07:32 PM) College Humor presents Unanswered LOST questions. About half of these are dead-on and give a good indicator of just how off-base an approach the writers took in their set-up and executions of questions and answers.. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291 The majority of those are stupid. For example Why did the monster kill the pilot? Why does the monster make mechanical sounds? What did locke see when he first saw the smoke? Why did tom feel the need to wear a fake beard? Thats just from me watching the first minute or so. A lot of those questions have been answered too and a lot of the ones that are not answered mean nothing to the plot of the show so don't need to be answered. Yes theres some questions in there that they didn't answer but give me a break if you honestly think thats 5 minutes or hell even 2 minutes of unanswered questions that the writers failed on.

So I'm assuming paying for RDR is completely worth it by the post in this thread.

I believe the Bomb never went off, and it ended up being the failsafe that Desmond used at the end of season 2. But that wouldn't explain how they flashed back to 2007 randomly if it didn't go off.

To the people who wanted the mythology and what is the island questions answered this thread on lostpedia might help. http://forum.lostpedia.com/bens-convo-w-hu...ins-t58902.html

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:14 AM) Right, the island had nothing to do with what the show was ultimately revealed to be. It could have been any set of events tying a set of people together. What was the show ultimately revealed to be? The alt is purgatory/afterlife, and the island is what you saw for 6 seasons.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:10 AM) "The plot doesn't have to make sense; it's character driven!"...especially hard to buy that excuse when major characters have nonexistent or unexplained motivations. The mythology has always been a huge part of the show, and many of those elements added nothing in terms of character development. Where exactly does the plot not make sense for you?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:01 AM) IIRC, didn't the producers stress the show had nothing to do with purgatory since basically episode 1? Yes, and the island had nothing to do with purgatory.

Loved it. I don't think I could be more satisfied. Anyone whose b****ing about what the island is and all the mythology I'm sorry you didn't realize the show was character driven when you watched it. You set yourself up for disappointment by expecting anything more then what we got in that department.

The day 6 years in the making has finally come.

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ May 21, 2010 -> 04:17 PM) The third patch that came out earlier this week made it so that if you get the third out, and a runner crosses home, the run scores. They just fixed it with another today, apparently. Well that explains that. I was so confused yesterday when it happened to me. And yes I did have to download another patch to play today.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5208043

QUOTE (juddling @ May 20, 2010 -> 09:09 PM) Very awesome Fringe finale tonight..... i figured but i didn't expect WOW!!!!! Can't wait till next season That finale blew me away.

I don't think Ben is really with MIB. I hope he has one of his plans, because he always has one and somehow turns on MIB in the finale and kills him. The reason I think this is because at the end of the episode MIB said "I'm going to destroy the island" and there is no way Ben wants to destroy the island.