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• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 8:16 am
  Hi Sam.

• Tariq Posted: May.24 at 8:26 am
  Hi Ryan

• Tariq Posted: May.24 at 8:32 am
  First off, let me just say that while I don’t watch Lost, slamonline has spoiled way too many shows for me. For us living outside the US, we don’t get a chance to see these shows until months later, and then you smug bastards come in here talking about how Ross broke up with Rachel and whatnot. So, prithee, give us ample heads-up like Sam just did now when he declared this a Lost-spoiler amnesty zone so that you don’t ruin anything for us outside, in Boozer’s words, the lower 48.

• h-wag Posted: May.24 at 8:39 am
  Wow, did you see last nights game !
  Oh wait, I forgot we´re in the middle of the play-offs and we get all of one games in three days. Nevermind…

• Tariq Posted: May.24 at 8:39 am
  Now, as for basketball, allow me to stray off-topic. I was just reading about how USA Basketball made a great decision in adding Prince to Team USA. So that got me thinking…what’s the best competitive squad the US can assemble? Here are my picks:
  Kidd, Deron (or CP3), Gil, Kobe, Prince, Bowen, Ray Allen, Garnett, Duncan, Redd, Camby, LeBron + Oden and Durant

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 8:43 am
  I am completely convinced that the island is at the center of the time/space continuum and that there are multiple worlds that these folks traipse back and forth in. This knowledge drove Jack to drugs and drink. He keeps trying to get back because he may have had to leave the other survivors there, or something happened and everyone but he and Kate survived. Wow, I’ll be working out this sh*t for quite some time. What an ending.

• Andy Posted: May.24 at 8:46 am
  I can’t be the only one who thought Jack’s beard might just be the worst piece of television make-up ever, right? That thing deserves a show all of its own. Saw it and it reminded me of when Ron Burgundy has lost his job and is walking the streets, drinking milk. I pictured Jack saying “Oceanic 815 was a bad choice”.

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 8:58 am
  Who is the “he” Kate needs to get back to and who was in the casket?

• Ron Posted: May.24 at 8:59 am
  Not spoil anything for anyone, but at the end of season 2 Ben let Michael and Walt off the island, so why won’t he let anyone else leave? Why the hell won’t they just kill Ben and get it over with? I am glad that we can now see the end coming, even though it will be a three process to get off the island. I just hope they can keep my interest until the very end.

• Rod Strickland Posted: May.24 at 8:59 am
  I think the site should be changed to Samonline.com. Because he, you know, does 5 times more columns than anyone else.

• Rod Strickland Posted: May.24 at 9:12 am
  There has to be some sort of tear in space time continuum. Jack was speaking as if his father were alive in his future scenes when we all know his dad mirked himself in Sydney. So either Jack has lost it or time is screwed up.

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 9:35 am
  There’s a few ways to view Jack’s talking as if his dad is alive: 1) time is screwed, there are multiple realities and Jack’s losing it because he can’t figure out which reality he’s occupying; or 2)everything we thought about time in the show, i.e. that the flashbacks were about the characters’ live prior to the crash, were actually flash FOWARDS, about their lives after they returned from the island. I know this last one is kinda crazy and I haven’t wrapped my mind around the inconsistencies, but what a great trick to play on an audience. We were led to believe we were getting to know the characters’ past lives and were amazed at how they all seemed to be connected to each other in some way, when in actuality we were seeing their lives after the crash and they were truly connected because they were all passengers on Oceanic flight 815. Trippy, huh?

• Bigi Posted: May.24 at 9:42 am
  WAU!WHAT A FINALE!!!!!I’m so screwed up right now thinkin’ nothing but LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

• Sam Rubenstein Posted: May.24 at 9:51 am
  I don’t know about that Cheryl. There were flashbacks where they showed everyone rushing to get on flight 815. Hugo learned the numbers he used in the lottery when he was in an insane asylum. That money is how he got on the plane.
  Rod, it is my full-time job. The writing and posting is the fun/easy part. Having a playoff game every night for people to write about and discuss is even better.
  Walt looked like Li’l Romeo when he was on the show and last night he looked like Master P.
  Did Kate have Sawyer’s baby and if so what kind of criminal mastermind is that kid going to be?

• Ron Posted: May.24 at 9:52 am
  What if the island is the flashback, and everything else is modern day. Think about it, all the flashbacks (or what we thought were flashbacks) featured modern day scenes. What if the island is so space between life and death, and when you die on the island you go back to the real world.

• Sam Rubenstein Posted: May.24 at 9:57 am
  Ooooh… that is interesting Ron. So you mean the island is like a paradise dream world, like a vacation. And when you die there, you go back to your boring life in a messed up world.

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 9:59 am
  That’s what’s trippy, Sam. Do we REALLY know they were all rushing to get on flight 815? Remember Jack said near the end that he’s been using the Oceanic “flight passes we got” for being on a crashed plane, so everyone seen getting on planes doesn’t necessarily mean they’re getting on this one flight. Also, Hurley being in the insane asylum could have been because of the crash. he could have gotten the lottery numbers from the island, played them when he got back, won, and then all around him started dying. Still could have happened AFTER being rescued. i know there’s inconsistencies to my theory, but play with it for a bit. This damn show is wild!

• Nadav Mor Posted: May.24 at 10:01 am
  Kate is obviously with Sawyer. The boy that Jack saved from the wreck is a grown up Aaron (whaaaat).
  The code for the signal jamming thing needed to be Hurley’s numbers, but that would have been too easy.

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 10:07 am
  You guys are nerds.

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 10:11 am
  I’m going to go back and watch season 2 and 3 over the next several months and watch the “flashbacks” with a different perspective and see if my theory could work. But, that’s after the playoffs. It’ll give me something to do instead of jonesing for a new bball season.

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 10:11 am
  I’ve been called worse!

• Ron Posted: May.24 at 10:14 am
  Weren’t Hurley’s winning numbers the numbers from the hatch? Last night when Ben said to Jack, what are you going back for? Your wife left you and dad is dead. Well in the flash forward Jack tell the cheif of surgery to call his dad down, and he pulls out a presciption signed by dad(Supossedly), and the girl says that she would have to call his dad’s office. So where does all of this fit in? I have too many questions and I can’t get crap done at work think about this damn show. I love loast so much I’m beginning to get obsessed.

• K22C Posted: May.24 at 10:15 am
  Lost is over. Sam’s annoying analogys are done! HORRAYYY!

• Nadav Mor Posted: May.24 at 10:17 am
  http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/53/4028/26855/41549 the finale on the internet.

• Max Airington Posted: May.24 at 10:32 am
  For some reason, I dont think Sawyer left that island…Or Desmond. And obviously Locke. And Ben. And Where the hell did Naomi come from?

• Nadav Mor Posted: May.24 at 10:35 am
  Nathan needs to fly there and save everyone.

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 10:39 am
  Cheryl, I think your theory isn’t that bad, but I think that it may apply only to certain cast members. Think Sawyer telling Jack on the island that he spoke to his father last season. But I’ve been trying to turn each characters flashbacks into flashforwards and it just seems that it is WAY to hard to justify. But with this show, who knows.

• Richie Posted: May.24 at 10:47 am
  I’m a bit disappointed Charlie died. I hated him for most of last season when they he had the drugs issues but they turned his character around and made him less terrible. What does this mean for Desmond’s ability to see the future? All his premonitions were about charlie dying.

• Sam Rubenstein Posted: May.24 at 10:48 am
  my mind has been blown many times by your ideas. If that 8 year old in the car crash is Aaron…
  Also, I think they had the whole thing about Sawyer killing the real Sawyer just so he be used to killing so he could take care of Tom. Sawyer is becoming like a hitman.
  What a show.

• Richie Posted: May.24 at 10:49 am
  Brotha…..(forgot to add that)

• K22C Posted: May.24 at 10:50 am
  Does anyone think that Oden or Durant will not go in the Top 2?

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 10:52 am
  white hot, you’re probably right. In fact, you may have hit the nail on the head. Remember Desmond says that changing something in the present has a ripple effect both backward and forward. I do think that the writers of this show are playing with the time/space/multiple universe theme with this show. It’s an interesting theme and can take the show’s arc all over the place.

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 10:58 am
  K22C, I know, this is a basketball sight after all. Just think that Sam’s idea to link LOST and the NBA together was a brilliant way to give us an avenue to talk about both. As for #1 and #2, certainly Oden and Durrant will be in these two spots, but we may be surprised to see which one goes first. Oden makes Aldridge superfluous, whereas Durrant could mean getting rid of Z’Bo. I think Portland would much rather get rid of Bo than to lose the youngster Aldridge. But, who knows? They sure don’t want to make the Bowie/Jordan mistake again.

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 11:11 am
  K22C, you’re right about this being a (THE)basketball sight, but right now, Heroes and Lost were providing WAY more entertainment than the current playoff matchups. So for the Linkstigators who don’t like to read what us “nerds” are talking about, keep scrolling down.

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 11:13 am
  Nerds.

• Nadav Mor Posted: May.24 at 11:15 am
  I bet LeBron watched Lost, a55.

• Max Airington Posted: May.24 at 11:16 am
  Hi Ryan.

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 11:37 am
  The way we’re going, as soon as the season’s over, this site is going to be nothing but politics, soccer and TV talk. Basketball’s dumb anyway.

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 11:37 am
  Ryan, embrace your inner nerd, you know you are one, otherwise you still wouldn’t be reading our nerdy comments.

• Sam Rubenstein Posted: May.24 at 11:43 am
  Or it could just be Ryan insulting people and baiting them into arguing with him all day long.

• Max Airington Posted: May.24 at 11:46 am
  Thats the only reason I come here.

• Ben Couch Posted: May.24 at 12:00 pm
  That LOST finale man … phew. I’m with Sam - it just felt like something bigger. If the quality holds, it’s quite possible the Lost finale could be THE defining pop culture moment of our generation. Craziness. Some of the flashes are definitely past history (for instance, Libby was in the mental hospital with Hurley - totally unexplored connection, btw) but thinking about some of them being “futures” adds all kinds of new levels. This show makes my brain hurt … and I think I like it.

• Bigi Posted: May.24 at 12:09 pm
  Nessa,Mike…How many others there will be from Las Vegas-cast…Danny?Ed?

• Don't hate me cause I don't watch Lost!! Posted: May.24 at 12:12 pm
  I’ve never seen an episode of Lost, but from what I can piece together, is this like some new version of Gilligan’s Island or something

• Ron Posted: May.24 at 12:18 pm
  Bigi, I hope Sam from Las Vegas doesn’t end up on Lost. All the hotties on the show get killed off except for Kate. Shannon, Ana Lucia, Naomi, Paolo’s girl I forgot her name, but you get my point. The hot girls get axed and I hate it.

• Ron Posted: May.24 at 12:24 pm
  The producers already said that the connection between Hurley and Libby will be developed in Season 4, just like they said this d=season was going to go deeper into the Others. On ABC.com the producers do a podcast that gives someinsight into their thoughts. They explain why Charlie had to go and said that no cast member is safe from death. So as I said in the past, the way charaters are killed of the final season cought be like watching castaway, or as DON’T HATE said Gilligan’s Island.

• Richie Posted: May.24 at 12:30 pm
  http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:eonlinekristen.com:20070524:tv-8a97c72f092a0d202b9476fdecc08dfa__ER:1;_ylt=AkIsf0BM7lxrPgVtj41jeQqAo9EF Here’s an interview with Damon Lindelof, a writer, he explains why they killed off charlie

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 12:31 pm
  You would think 40 years later, these buffons on the island could make a coconut phone.

• Crown Me Posted: May.24 at 12:46 pm
  Am I the only one who noticed that Tariq (in the 3rd post) just aired his beef about SLAM ruining “Friends” for him. Talk about a space/time continuum issue…

• Ron Posted: May.24 at 12:52 pm
  Crown me, I noticed the Friends tie in, but since that was 3 years ago why delve into it now. P.S. Smelly Cat is still a hot song.

• Nadav Mor Posted: May.24 at 1:07 pm
  So Kate let the writers kill off her boyfriend? yeah right, not buying it.

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 1:08 pm
  You guys all suck. Argue with me.

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 1:09 pm
  Ryan, we LOVE you!!

• peso Posted: May.24 at 1:15 pm
  it was irresponsible of ABC to air something like that during the work week. last night i could not sleep and now all i can think about are my island friends.

• peso Posted: May.24 at 1:15 pm
  it was irresponsible of ABC to air something like that during the work week. last night i could not sleep and now all i can think about are my island friends.

• k.o. Posted: May.24 at 1:25 pm
  ‘basketball’s dumb anyways’ LOL

• H to the izzo Posted: May.24 at 1:28 pm
  Ryan I disagree with everything you stand for

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 1:33 pm
  Izzo, was I on point with the Lost spoilers?

• H to the izzo Posted: May.24 at 1:38 pm
  I have to give you props,even though I din’t actually see it from the looks of the comments it looked like you were on point

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 1:39 pm
  Ryan, if you call me a “guy” one more time, I’ma…

• Boing Dynasty Posted: May.24 at 1:51 pm
  Lebron loves levatation.

• Sam Rubenstein Posted: May.24 at 1:55 pm
  eboy, you showed restraint and you were right.
  Oh here’s an interesting basketball thing:
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=GGnnN5BMXwE

• Bryant Reeves Posted: May.24 at 2:00 pm
  I agree with Ryan

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 2:04 pm
  Sam, Lebron Bryant?

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 2:08 pm
  Cheryl, that’s only because for slamonline purposes, I consider you “one of the guys” in a gender-neutral sense, and that’s intended as a compliment. If you don’t take it as such, you must be from Kentucky.

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 2:10 pm
  Sam, somebody posted that link on my LeBron rant from the other day, saying if the League is so worried about consistency, he should be suspended. And my man has a point.

• white hot eboy Posted: May.24 at 2:17 pm
  Ryan & Sam, Was C-Webb flopping?

• Sam Rubenstein Posted: May.24 at 2:26 pm
  Of course he was flopping. He’s trying to win that championship.
  Maybe LeBron was elbowing the haters, or maybe it’s because he’s only 22?
  (I don’t think he should be suspended, just because it’s not in the best interest of competitiveness. Is that fair? No. That’s the NBA)

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 2:27 pm
  I only saw the blurry YouTube version, so it’s tough for me to say, but it certainly looked like LeBron did that arm swing you’re not supposed to do. D*ck rider that I am, I’m giving Bron the benefit of the doubt because he didn’t get a call all night.

• dez Posted: May.24 at 2:30 pm
  Bill Simmon’s article on the Lottery made me sadistically happy. Boston sucks

• Reggie Evans Posted: May.24 at 2:31 pm
  LeBron should develop a low post game, his size would be a big advantage down there, as much or even more than on his drives.

• Boing Dynasty Posted: May.24 at 3:05 pm
  Lebron should also develop a consistant jump shot, and maybe, um, “FREE” throws. I havent seen anything like that since Sanford and Son.

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 3:26 pm
  @Ryan, just trying to pick a fight. You didn’t bite, though. You must be from Kentucky…

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 3:40 pm
  Oh, they bite in Kentucky, Cheryl. They bite HARD.

• Boing Dynasty Posted: May.24 at 4:05 pm
  Hey Jones, did Joe Pa make the football team clean out your office yet?

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 4:10 pm
  ooooh, goose bumps…

• Cheryl Posted: May.24 at 4:11 pm
  are you having a Marv moment?

• ALX8725 Posted: May.24 at 4:42 pm
  lebronze

• Milan Posted: May.24 at 4:53 pm
  It took a lot of strenght to avoid all spoilers before watching it and I’m glad I did, that was simply amazing, mind blowing, words don’t really describe it. Actually I showed so much strenght I could’ve even been good to get on Jacob’s list on the island. Nah, probably not. And maybe I’ve taken the Lost thing too far there, maybe Ryan is right, we’re nerds. At least we enjoy the ride.

• Sam Rubenstein Posted: May.24 at 5:02 pm
  Yeah, looking back I was being a Heroes apologist. That finale sucked. The LOST finale was off the charts. Last night I was observing brilliance and tonight I’ll be installing a ceiling fan while watching Detroit and Cleveland try to crack the 80 point mark. Last night was better.

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 5:11 pm
  Boing: He did not, but that’s a very fair question. I’m torn, because I take pride in the fact that we annually have among the highest graduation rates of any D1 football program in the nation, so I know the concept of “student-athletes” is taken somewhat seriously here. I also know there’s no way in hell they would’ve started tossing felony charges for some drunken apartment fight if those kids weren’t football players. And then I also know those kids are all really, really stupid for getting involved in that sh*t in the first place. Not that you cared about my thoughts on any of that, but there you go.
  And no, Cheryl. That was metaphorical.

• Milan Posted: May.24 at 5:46 pm
  For someone who said he showed strength, I’m not even able to spell it right.

• Russ Bengtson Posted: May.24 at 5:54 pm
  So, about that LeBron James guy…

• jbn74sb Posted: May.24 at 6:04 pm
  Love the new kb24 advertisements. And I know Ryan does too.

• Russ Bengtson Posted: May.24 at 6:25 pm
  Some columnist I’ve never heard of on SI.com is asking whether LeBron is the new KG. Part of me wants to send him a really nasty e-mail and part of me wants to just punch myself in the face over and over again until I knock myself out.

• Boing Dynasty Posted: May.24 at 9:23 pm
  I can’t say im not slightly disappointed by that Ryan. Jason Maxiell is beasting. Lebron’s dunk was nicer, but Jason’s was much more disrespectful.

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 9:47 pm
  Maxiell’s having a hell of a game, but then, nobody’s game-planning their entire defense around him.
  Bodie, I replied to you on whichever other column you posted

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 9:48 pm
  BTW, Bodie, I might be in L.A. in a few weeks. You’ll have to buy me a beer.

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.24 at 9:53 pm
  Oh, and Russ: I just read that guy’s column, and honestly, he makes some great points. You have to admit that all those comparisons he makes between KG and Bron are spot-on, and he doesn’t even get into the fact that both of them are also a) black, b) tall and c) wear shorts to work. Coincidence? I don’t think so, dude. My man is on to something.

• Max Airington Posted: May.24 at 10:59 pm
  Nobody fouled him.

• Russ Bengtson Posted: May.24 at 11:00 pm
  Why the hell didn’t LeBron kick it to Donyell Marshall in the corner? He’s so selfish.

• Tom Posted: May.24 at 11:40 pm
  LOL, too funny Russ! Did you see how many F-bombs came out of Sheeds mouth after he hit that shot. Why do they always do the slo-mo close up after a big shot, don’t they know! Too funny

• Boing Dynasty Posted: May.25 at 12:12 am
  censorship at its finest.

• Russ Bengtson Posted: May.25 at 12:48 am
  Wait—Ross broke up with Rachel?!!?

• Ryan Jones Posted: May.25 at 1:24 am
  Richard Hamilton actually fouled me on that play, just to make sure I wouldn’t write about this tomorrow. So I won’t.
  I do love Rasheed, of all people, getting away with that kung fu sh*t on Sideshow. Who says God and David Stern don’t have a sense of humor?

• Russ Bengtson Posted: May.25 at 1:34 am
  Rasheed has the wallet with BAD MOTHER F**KER on it.

• soyboy Posted: May.25 at 2:21 am
  *steinbrenner on seinfeld voice* I was “bloooooown away” by the Lost finale. It packed such i bigger punch for me becuase it only occured to me at the end that jack’s experience was post-island. throughout the episode i kept assuming that what jack was going through happened somewhere in the years before the island. Only when i saw kate at the end was when it hit me! I felt sorry for Tom though. Sawyer: “That was for takin’ the kid on the boat.”…Damn. If any of you Lostaphiles need a season finale discussion fix, head over to the 4815162342.com forums…but you probably already knew about that.

• Russ Bengtson Posted: May.25 at 5:49 am
  Apparently it’s not his time yet.

• arof Posted: May.27 at 2:21 pm
  Wow - that finale was nuts. My 2 cents:
  penny 1: John Locke was in the casket. When the funeral director asked Jack if he was family or friend, he said “neither”. Also, John’s funeral is the only one I can see none of the Losties going to. penny 2: Kate having to go back to “him” is Sawyer. There is no space/time continuum thing going on here - the producers have said so multiple times now. I think that everyone is off the island in the flash forwards. Best. TV. Episode. EVER.