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

+ There is another Favre quarterback. Dear. God. No. {With Leather.}

+ A long look at how the BCS could play out. {Can’t Stop the Bleeding.}

+ A 22-year-old from Denmark won the World Series of Poker. Lucky duck. {USA Today.}

+ Why would the A’s acquire Matt Holliday? {Larry Brown Sports.}

+ Non-sports: Bush and Obama hang out. Awkward. {New York Times.} Trailer for Pixar’s new movie Up. {Kottke.}

Quotable:

“Players’ agents such as Boras are easy targets of scorn. They are like the messengers we all want to kill. They are the middle managers who have to lay you off because the corporate creeps who ordered it won’t get their hands dirty. They are the sportswriters who report negative facts about your favorite team.

Boras is not an ax murderer. He is a 56-year-old guy who puts on his pants one leg at a time. He has a life, has friends, runs his business out of Newport Beach, goes to lots of baseball games at Dodger and Angel stadiums and doesn’t prance around, looking for attention. He is just there, always there, watching what happens on the field and calculating how he can convert that into leverage in his next deal.

That is his job.” – Bill Dwyre on Scott Boras, Los Angeles Times