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

+ Video of Kobe Bryant’s 61 points last night. {FanHouse.}

+ Ben Roethlisberger on David Letterman. {Mondesi’s House.}

+ Hey, look who’s reading the FD book. {Free Darko.}

+ Michigan used to bring an actual wolverine out on the field. As you can imagine, it didn’t end well. {Dr. Saturday.}

+ Non-sports: The Christian Bale tirade, re-mixed. {Pitchfork.} New Fleet Foxes demos are up. {MySpace.}

Quotable:

“The guy has never, ever played for a loser since. Not ever. He carried his teams to the playoffs 10 times in his 15 full seasons, and four times those teams went to the World Series. His teams, over his rather lengthy career, have a .578 winning percentage, which is rather incredible. That’s about 94 wins per year. That’s better than Bobby Cox’s winning percentage, way better than Sparky Anderson’s* or Joe Torre’s or Tony LaRussa’s. It’s a tick better than Jack Morris’ career winning percentage, and this guy wasn’t a pitcher. This guy played every day.

You could argue based on all this, that this player is the greatest winner of his generation. We all know that one player in baseball cannot make the whole difference, one player cannot turn a bad team into a good one. But you can’t argue with the man’s record. He’s a winner. He might even be THE winner.” – Joe Posnanski on Manny Ramirez