Loosing and Lost

For over a week now, many have been curious to see how long the Phillies win streak could go.  7? 8? 9? 10 games?  I too have been curious, but all along, while the Phillies were winning games handily and sloppily during the nine game win-streak, I couldn't help but wonder what life would be like for the Phillies after the streak ended.  With last night's 13-4 drubbing, we will now find out.

We've seen the Phillies go on extended stretches of great play in recent years, only to have them crash back to earth and end up right where they started.  Yes, we haven't seen a win-streak like this from the Phillies in some time, not since 1991.  Ah, 1991...Bryan Adams, Extreme, high school graduation, start of college, a normal size head on top of Barry Bonds normal size body...and a 78-84 record from the Phils.  So you see, a nine-gamer doesn't mean much for the Phils.

But a win tonight against the Mets would.  A win would get the Phillies to within three games of the Mets in the standings, and a series win.  And if you had told any Phillies fan that the Phils would face Pedro Martinez and Tom Glavine in the series and still win 2 out of 3, they would have taken it in a heartbeat.

How well the Phillies rebound is a big question mark.  Almost as big as the one Locke and Mr. Eko found last night on Lost.

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Speaking of Lost, it remains the best show on television, bar none.  My Name is Earl, How I Met Your Mother, Sopranos, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Without a Trace, and CSI: Las Vegas are all shows I never miss, but Lost, that is in a whole other league.

However, despite the high esteem I hold the show in, I can't help but be skeptical of all of the spin-offs and sideshows that are being created from it.  Something tells me that the end of the book Bad Twin, the final stage of the video game "Lost Experience", and the Hanso Foundation websites are all just going to result in some silly message like, "Drink More Ovaltine".