in my humble
>opinion. When you are playing
>with a bunch of knuckleheads
>and crackpots, of course Cochran
>looks GREAT!

Agreed 100%. OMG! If Erik hadn't collapsed one the way back from TC, we wouldn't have seen him lapse automatically into EMT mode and show us that there is a brain in there. It took until the final scramble and the final 2 TCs to show that he could actually think strategically about the game. Sherrie was clueless until the end, defiantly refused to let Erik hand her a clue, and was such a blathering ninny at FTC that even if the others had asked her a question and she had HAD game she would have blown it. She performed so badly in all area it took an explanation by Jeff at the Reunion to explain that she had some real world successes.

And Boston Rob did what Boston Rob does so well by trying to define Phillip as "one of the greatest characters in the game". Thus keeping Phillip's good will and admiration while basically saying, "you were not and will never be a Boston Rob, but you made me laugh watching you try." BR came close, but didn't hit the nail on the head: Phillip was edited as a CARICATURE of Boston Rob- a satirical illusion of the strategic player, exaggerated in some aspects and oversimplified in others.

And, FloPo, as we look toward the next batch of recycled knuckleheads and +1s we will be faced with at the end of the summer, we can already see some clues in the sourced speculation list as to who the "Golden children" are and who the knuckleheads are.