The Sox lost this way last night-- but they 'Lost' in a whole 'nother way on Wednesday night as well, when the team made yet another appearance on ABC's "Lost". I gave up on Lost a couple of years ago, but I'm presuming this stuff below might well constitute a spoiler to those of you who still watch, so:

SPOILER ALERT!

The Red Sox have cropped up to factor in to the plot of Lost on numerous occasions- most assuredly because Carlton Cuse (a writer and executive producer on the show) is a rabid Sox fan. Jack Shepherd and his father (characters both written as Sox fans) often said, "That's why the Red Sox will never win the World Series" when talking about fate -- the irony of which had an even bigger impact when Jack was shown footage of the Sox winning the 2004 World Series as proof that the show's bad guys had contact with the outside world.

The Red Sox popped up as a major plot point again back in March when a tape containing crucial information gets pulled out of a vault to reveal... it's labeled "RED SOX" (and the characters indicate that the original content -- presumably a Sox game -- was taped over). I don't think it's at all unrealistic that a Sox fan would keep a VHS tape of a game locked away in a vault like the precious cargo it is.

Wednesday's episode once again featured the Sox - this time by way of a newspaper headline of the team being swept by the Yankees (along with Jack muttering about "A-Rod" under his breath).

Eric Wilbur and Big League Stew have competing theories over what series the headline refers to (Eric points to August, 2007; BLS thinks it's August, 2006), and what the significance of all of this is. I just find it amusing that even fictional characters are as annoyed by A-Rod as those of us in the real world.

March 6, 2008

April 30, 2008