Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today.

+ The good and the bad TV numbers from the Rays-Red Sox Game 7 Sunday night. {Dallas Morning News Sports Media Blog.}

+ The NBA is introducing more instant replay, but at what cost? {The Sporting Blog.}

+ RIP, EliteXC. {ESPN.}

+ Mark Prior may be ready for the 2009 season. Hooray! {MLB Trade Rumors.}

+ It’s the year of the Joe. {Joe Posnanski.}

+ B-Pro on the World Series. Advantage, Rays. {Baseball Prospectus.}

+ Non-sports: New Feist video. {Stereogum.} A case against blogs? No! {Wired.}

Quotable:

“Man, I’m telling you, celebrity in this day and age seems like a fatal disease. Once you’ve caught it, you can NEVER be free; it will haunt you to your deathbed. Canseco lays himself bare in this show and maybe some of what he says is true, but I guarantee you that most of it is bull, and you know why? Because it’s TV. Canseco is angling for a second act and he’s clearly a gifted operator of the highest order. He comes across here as a sensitive guy and probably more intelligent than anyone gives him credit for, but more than anything he comes across like someone who will do anything to get ahead. Like, for instance, ratting out his friends to make a buck. Or telling the entire world on national television that he can’t get it up anymore because of the effects of chronic steroid use. Or the more prescient example, I suppose — using steroids in the first place.” – Dave Larzelere of First Cuts on Jose Canseco’s AMC reality documentary