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

+ Christiano Ronaldo messed up his car just a wee bit. {With Leather.}

+ After taking down UNC, Boston College loses to Harvard. How does that work? {Josh Q. Public.}

+ The nation’s top 25 freshman so far. {Basketball Prospectus.}

+ “Meet the Mets” meets punk rock. {Big League Stew.}

+ Non-sports: Valkyrie is your new slang, old and bony. {Videogum.} MySpace moving to your TV. {hypebot.}

Quotable:

“But until that happens, statisticians, quantitative analysts, and all related professionals should have the dignity, the self-respect, and the common sense to have nothing to do with the BCS. This isn’t a national championship—it’s a big-money waltz. The only role that the computer rankings play in this is that they’re there to take the fall when the system doesn’t work—and it doesn’t work most of the time. When it doesn’t, you can put the blame on the greedy small schools that wanted to milk money from the big football factories, on the greedy big schools that wanted to keep as much money as possible in the fewest possible hands, on the lunk-head football coaches who can’t program a computer to play tic-tac-toe but want to make all the rules, or on the Congress that sits idly by and watches it happen. You guys want to make a mess of this, you can make a mess of it without our help.” – Bill James on the BCS