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

+ The Marlins have changed their Web site URL. {Baseball Musings.}

+ Can the Cavs win it all? {Basketball Prospectus.}

+ College basketball mascot and coach lookalikes. {Boosh Magazine.}

+ Michael Phelps small, stupid cameo on the season finale of “Entourage” last night. (The season as a whole was weak, but I’m a sucker for happy endings. Sue me.) {First Cuts/The Sporting Blog.}

+ Non-sports: Factcheck.org’s coverage of Elliott Blaufuss’s 2008 Halloween Party. {McSweeney’s.} 26-year-old to see every a**hole he ever went to high school with on night before Thanksgiving. {The Onion.}

Quotable:

“Demand the AFCA release all coaches’ individual Top 25 ballots for next week’s poll, when it will matter just as much as in the final week of the season.

The Coaches’ Top 25 poll has always been a little sketchy.

Coaches have agendas and vendettas. They are hopelessly conflicted. Some coaches don’t even fill out the ballot themselves. No reasonable fan thinks that the coaches actually watch enough games on a Saturday to know who to rank and where to rank them.

Most appallingly, there is almost no transparency: The coaches who vote insist that only their final ballot of the season — the one that impacts the direct selection of the BCS Top 2 — be revealed to the public. In other years, that is offensively opaque, but we as fans deal with it.

This season, that is a problem. A huge problem. A Big 12-sized problem.”– Dan Shanoff