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

+ Buy this Dave Parker shirt, and wear it proudly. {Big League Stew, SbB.}

+ More on the D. Rose Basketball Prospectus article. {TrueHoop.}

+ The Hawk will retire Pierre Pilote’s and Keith Magnuson’s number tonight. {Chicagoist.}

+ The Orioles will be rocking a new bird next season. {Oriole Post.}

+ Non-sports: Have yet to read all this, but Eamonn promises this Michael Lewis piece on the end of Wall Street is fantastic. {Portfolio.} Is Jeff Jarvis gloating too much about the death of print? {Slate.}

Quotable:

“Of course you can argue that Obama could have gotten elected Woods or no Woods.

You can say that lots of Americans still begrudge Woods his single-minded, murderous intensity, predicting every time he makes a life change like getting married or having a child–any time he does something normal and human–his dominance will dissipate. Yes, but over the years lots of these haters have been transformed into Tiger-mad fans.

It’s impossible to know for sure what Woods has done over the last decade to soften up white America for a black presidential candidate with similar qualities: calm, confidence, intelligence, good looks, a brilliant smile and an unmistakable and sometimes awesome air of confidence about him.

But it’s hard not to wonder about the effect of Tiger Woods–let alone the future effect of Barack Obama–on South Side uncles, and the quarterbacks they bet on.” – David Murray, The Huffington Post