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

+ Pictures from Wrigley Field, as the Winter Classic setup has begun. {Bleed Cubbie Blue.}

+ Darrin Jackson will be moving to the White Sox radio booth. {Chicago Tribune.}

+ White NBA players who look like abusive husbands. {Wnpwllah.tumblr.com.}

+ The Cavs are interested in Shawn Marion. The Cavs are good. Very good. {FanHouse.}

+ Non-sports: Burger King has released a meat-scented body spray. {Ecorazzi.}  Jack Black to guest star on “The Office.” {ComingSoon.net.}

Quotable:

“The effect of the Mitchell Report often has been overstated, as if it caused players to quit steroids cold turkey. After all, no player on a 25-man major league roster tested positive for steroids in 2008. (The three failed tests belonged to 40-man designees.) Home runs were down by 815 from the all-time high in 2000. In truth, the cleanup phase had begun years earlier. The admissions of former MVPs Ken Caminiti and Jose Canseco, the shrinking of McGwire in front of a Congressional committee, the ruination of Rafael Palmeiro upon one failed test, the federal BALCO investigation that cost Barry Bonds his reputation, and the implementation of a testing program all cast a chilling effect on the PED climate in baseball.

Bodies were shrinking to normal size before Mitchell delivered his report. The Mitchell Report did succeed, however, as a kind of vehicle for closure that Selig had envisioned. It was unblinking enough not to be passed off as some in-house-produced pamphlet. (Truth be told, the work of the feds in turning over Radomski and Brian McNamee, the trainer for Roger Clemens, gave the report its true heft.) The Mitchell Report changed the dialogue about steroids in baseball, moving it away from a living problem to more of a history lesson.” – Tom Verducci