'Big Brother': Isn't It Bromantic?

As for Tuesday and Wednesday, this will probably raise your ire, but I found Sheila and Adam utterly charming together, especially when they were shackled after having lost the luxury comp. Sure, Sheila snapped at Adam incessantly — but seeing her crawl into bed with Adam while wearing nothing but her bra and panties was all the proof I needed to know that these truly liked and respected each other. So it made me very happy to learn that Baller had successfully persuaded Ryan an hour before Tuesday's eviction that booting Sharon was the smarter decision. Just as Adam predicted, Sheila would end up choking big-time during stages 1 and 2 of the final HOH competition, whereas Sharon might have proven victorious in at least one of those challenges. And the boys probably wouldn't have been able to intimidate Teflon Sharon in that first challenge quite the way they did Sheila, who ended up focusing far too much on the water temperature when she should have been thinking about the prize. She held on for a measly 36 minutes! Supposedly she was haunted by having almost ''drown-dead'' while swimming in the ocean, but I'm fairly certain her frightening memory was nothing more than an excuse to drop out simply because she got cold. Even her contemporary, Evel Dick, didn't whine about the water temperature in that gigantic container last season when he was vying for the final HOH. Sheila deserved to go right then and there, though I wouldn't have faulted Ryan for keeping her instead of Adam.

I'm fairly certain that Ryan will win the cash, but there is a chance his ties to Matt could hurt him in the end and prompt some of the jurors to vote for Adam. Ryan might have had a much easier time opposite Sheila, who basically won squat while living in the house. Still, this seems like his game to lose.

Some final thoughts for this penultimate column: The look on James' face when Sharon walked into the door was pretty friggin' priceless, as was Chelsia's prediction that her hometown paper would only focus on her showmance and not how she licked whip cream off of Naughty Nat's boobs. I was saddened to see that Nat hadn't gotten over her irrational obsession with Matty (I fear for her mental health; I really do), though I wasn't surprised to see that egomaniac brag about how ''Team Matty'' was the last alliance standing. He really is a nitwit, people — more so than Joshuah. And I'm hoping that someone out there might have heard what Adam was saying when the mike went dead in those fleeting moments after Sheila left the house. You East Coasters might have heard more than I did in California; all I could make out was the phrase ''dumb ass.'' Could anyone tell me what he said?

So what do you think? Will Ryan win the pot of gold? Will Adam charm the pants off the jury? Is Sheila's red chest rash in serious need of medical attention? Let's meet back here again after Sunday's show!