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

+ The Marlins are getting a new stadium. {FanHouse.}

+ Chris Webber clowning Charles Barkley about his short shorts. {Ballhype.}

+ Looking at Jimmy Clausen of the past … and the future. {Dr. Saturday.}

+ Worst dress ever? Worst dress ever. {Puck Daddy.}

+ Non-sports: Hands down the best thing I’ve read about print vs. the Web. {Shirky.} Design an NYC mini-golf course. {Kottke.}

Quotable:

“Contrast that, then, to the American experience, where we already had a big and shiny brass ring — the World Series — long before the game gripped our friends overseas. International play has never been in our blood and never has that been easier to spot than in the cynical way that both abstaining players, the media and the American public have greeted the WBC through its first two editions. The WBC is just as new a creation to Japan, Korea, Venezuela et. al, but you’d never know it from the way they approach the tournament.

Perhaps we’ll eventually come around as baseball’s talent becomes even more global and perhaps the powers-that-be will now be motivated to refocus their efforts to make sure that America is well-equipped to compete in 2013, the next time we’ll hold this big March party.

But for now, the fact remains that 99.9 percent of Americans aren’t assigning the same weight to the WBC as the rest of the world. The losses don’t sting as much, if at all, and players aren’t being pressured to come through in the clutch for their country.

Until we truly have the pick of our talented litter and then create a roster that’s versatile and more resistant to injury — think of the 2008 USA Olympic basketball team, as opposed to the 2004 squad — I think it’s going to stay that way. “ – ‘Duk