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Published
Thursday
Jan. 31, 2008

Since tonight is the season premiere of Lost I’d like offer a small theory I haven’t seen elsewhere. As fans of the show know, Lost is full of mysteries and one of the mysteries is who is on the boat that Jack called at the end of season 3? [If you’re not a Lost fan stop reading now, it’ll just make you curious and then you’ll get sucked in and next thing you know the first three seasons will be at the top of your Netflix queue. Trust me.]

Warning! Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen all three seasons.

Viewers were initial led to believe that Desmond’s girlfriend Penny was behind the mysterious ship just offshore, which is why Jack made the call on the satellite phone. However, Ben claims that it’s some other mysterious entity bent on destroying the island. Just before he dies Charlie tells Desmond, via the writing on his hand, that the ship is not Penny’s, which seems to lend the normal untrustworthy Ben some degree of credibility.

The question then is who would want to destroy the island and why?

If you recall, at one point during the third season, in an effort to prove to Jack that “the others” have contact with the outside world, Ben shows Jack a clip of the Red Sox 2004 World Series victory.

Now the question is, who would have the motive and means to destroy the island? My theory? Major League Baseball. Ben’s use of the Red Sox clip was clearly an unauthorized rebroadcast of MLB footage and, as we all know, that’s highly illegal. In fact, according the MLB, even talking about the game with out the express written consent of MLB is evil and punishable by death.

Which is why the boat offshore is crewed by none other than the Price of Darkness, MLB commissioner Bud Selig and his dominion of devil-spawn lawyers looking to avenge the unauthorized use of World Series footage. And in that case it complete makes since why Ben is so freaked out about the boat since Selig and crew will undoubtedly lay waste to the island for Ben’s grievous copyright infringement.

Of course I could be wrong, perhaps we’ll find out tonight (though I seriously doubt it).

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