The Final Score

If you haven't seen the episode yet, what are you waiting for?!?!? I repeat, best show on television, perhaps ever. I'm that enthralled by it. Anyway...

One of the best aspects of the show is trying to decipher the clues to determine what month and year the flash-forwards are taking place. Early in last night's episode Jack looked at his newspaper, saw a headline that said Yankees sweep Red Sox and said disgustedly, "A-Rod."

Immediately I thought about how the Yankees didn't sweep the Red Sox in 2005, but of course they had that five-game sweep in August of 2006. Could the flash forward really be taking place in August of 2006 when the plane crashed in September of 2004 and on the island right now it's supposedly winter of 2004-05?

In last week's flash forward Ben asked for the year when he checked into a hotel, and he was told it's October of 2005. That would make more sense than another year later. Yet, then again, the writers of this show never, ever include anything that's not meant as a clue (or so it seems) but in that five-game series sweep A-Rod didn't do much in that series - that was supposedly the moment when Jason Giambi ripped into him, according to that great SI article. Or maybe I'm just reading into it too much, as Jack may have just said 'Damn A-Rod' as most Red Sox fans say when the Yankees win.

Or perhaps I'm one year too early. The this EW.com Lost reviewer paused his TV and saw the score 5-0, which was the score of the last game of a sweep in 2007. So he believes the Jack-Kate flash forward went all the way to last summer. Wow.

Okay, back to my day job.