Lost & the 2004 World Series

by Titus Pullo on Oct 12, 2006 11:21 AM EDT

This is kind of a stupid comment, but . . .

Anyone who watched last night's episode of Lost (and why wouldn't you given the rainout), knows that the episode ended with Henry Gale a.k.a. Benjamin, convincing Jack that the Others have contact with the outside world by showing him a clip of the Red Sox winning the 2004 World Series.

The minute Henry started rolling the clip I became furious. Furious at the Cardinals for being the team to hand the Red Sox the championship, furious at the Cardinals for getting swept, furious at them for losing at home. The whole thing is infuriating.

I was surprised by how undigested my feelings were. I think I've been repressing since then.

But that's not my point. My point was that this current NLCS (and possible World Series) gives the Cardinals a great chance to expatiate their humiliation of two years ago.

It would seem anomalous for a team as good as the '04 Cards to lose, while this inferior iteration of the Cards might win it all. What can I say. Baseball's a funny game, and I've got a good feeling about this series. I consider last night's rain nothing short of divine intervention.

So here's hoping that tonight, that other deity who wears the number 5, will do some intervening of his own.

Let's kick the Mets' sorry butts!

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Yeah...

when I saw that, I said to myself(since I was alone) Jesus... I can't even escape 2004 by watching Lost. As for this series, I'll just use that tried and true football phrase... "on any given Sunday..."

by cardsrul on Oct 12, 2006 11:54 AM EDT reply actions

I get peeved enough...

...when I see the cover of that movie they made about the Red Sox that year - wasn't Drew Barrymore in it? Didn't they film part of it at Busch II?

I think I repressed that information, as well.

by EckEqualsClutch on Oct 12, 2006 1:46 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, it ended with a very brief shot

of the end of game 4 at Busch, with their "happy ending" of the couple getting married and the BoSox winning the series. "Happy" like a kick in the crotch, that is....

by BTown Birds fan on Oct 12, 2006 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I screamed and beat the couch....

but my wife the Red Sox fan enjoyed Jack's commment, "If you wanted me to believe you, you should have picked any team BUT the RED SOX!"

We got beat guys...beat hard. But it still sucks to watch.

Funny interjection on the show though.

by Brock20 on Oct 12, 2006 2:42 PM EDT reply actions

That's like

the episode of "Sliders" where they actually ended up back in their own world, only for about a minute and a half. The headline in the paper read "OJ arrested for murder", and they didn't believe, so they slid out to another world...

by cardsrul on Oct 12, 2006 4:03 PM EDT reply actions

that scene

made me hate the others even more, and even happier when Sun shot the mean chick on the boat.

Jack is so uptight, though, he's probably a Yankee fan. It probably turned his stomach just as much.

While we're determining which character likes which team, I believe the following speculation to be reasonable:

Sawyer: Braves
Mr. Eko: Tigers
Lock: Cubs
Charlie: Angels
Hurley: Marlins
Jin: Mariners
Kate: Cardinals
Sayid: Padres
Ana Lucia: Dodgers
Michael: Pirates
Walt: Giants
Shannon: Mets
Desmond: Royals

The Cardinal Curmudgeon

by lawman3842 on Oct 12, 2006 4:48 PM EDT reply actions

Exactly Right!

I don't know how, or why, or what the criteria we're using, but, somehow, your list seems right on.

Only possible change: I kind of see Michael as a Mets fan. I don't know where that leaves Shannon though . . . Maybe the Phillies?

So says, The Dude

by Titus Pullo on Oct 12, 2006 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Shannon's gotta be a Yanks fan

She's pampered, pretty, shrill, insecure, and ungodly rich. Also, she has asthma, which would lead some to call her a "choker." How could she not identify with A-Rod?

by Hummingbird on Oct 12, 2006 6:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Insert

"F-ing Boone" joke here

by Nate811 on Oct 16, 2006 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions

soo uh

are you saying kate's a cardinals fan because you find her attractive?

by stlcardinalsfang on Oct 12, 2006 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions

that would be

a good reason, but no, she just seems like a midwestern girl to me.

The Cardinal Curmudgeon

by lawman3842 on Oct 13, 2006 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions

GAH

That was disturbing on a number of levels. Ever since that...incident in the fall of 2004, I have consciously avoided any visual contact with photographic or video images of same. To have my favorite show on television shove highly explicit footage of said incident in my face (with audio, no less)...it was almost more than I could handle. The wife and I were literally crying out in pain. Horrifying.

Still, that was a brilliant scene. I just can't ever watch it again.

Let's make with the expiation!

by Hummingbird on Oct 12, 2006 5:29 PM EDT reply actions

We still have Cast Away

"So, let me get one thing straight here... We have a pro football team now, but they're in Nashville?"

"They went to the Super Bowl last year...they almost won by one yard! One lousy yard!"

by Nate811 on Oct 12, 2006 5:32 PM EDT reply actions

I saw that scene in Italian

you've never seen bizarre until you've seen people talking about American football in a foreign language

by Valatan on Oct 13, 2006 2:28 AM EDT up reply actions

eh

i don't know, i'm pretty much over 04. when i saw the movie Fever Pitch I was still pretty peaved, but now I just thought it was a good interjection in one of my favorite tv shows

Future Redbirds

by erik on Oct 12, 2006 5:55 PM EDT reply actions

Regardless

I told my roomate this when we watched this as the knife was twisted into each of our stomachs.
"We will never escape this"
The cards will always be the team that lost to the Sox to break "the curse" or end the epic streak of no world series championships for the red sox. We cannot escape.

by jroman on Oct 13, 2006 10:20 AM EDT reply actions