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

+ Hasheem Thabeet plays an April Fool’s joke on Twitter. OMG HOW HILARIOUS. {The Arena.}

+ Johan Santana impersonates Mets public relations director Jay Horwitz. {Can’t Stop the Bleeding.}

+ Can Albert Pujols win the triple crown? {The Baseball Analysts.}

+ Marginal dollars per marginal win, as applied to the NBA. {Basketball Prospectus.}

+ Non-sports: New John Vanderslice track. {Stereogum.} A retrospective on Gmail’s fifth anniversary. {Wired.}

Quotable:

“Hey, you and I both know Memphis is hardly the only place that works package deals. Or has players who get into trouble. Or goes the prep school route. These days, that’s accepted as the price of doing business in the big leagues, isn’t it?

Well, Calipari manages to stuff that stat sheet on all those fronts.

But with him, you also get 30-plus victories a season for the past four seasons. You get the big-time recruits your new head coach will inevitably bring in. You get renewed dreams of winning an eighth national championship.

That’s why you’re hiring John Calipari, Mitch. We all get it.

Happy April Fool’s Day.

Hopefully, the joke won’t end up on you.” – Pat Forde