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

+ Johan Santana has handshakes for everyone on the Mets. {The Legend of Cecilio Guante.}

+ Who had the tournament’s best dunk? {Intentional Foul.}

+ Not a surprise: Demarcus Cousins heads to Kentucky. {Rush the Court.}

+ Anyone want this wax figure of Michael Jordan that looks nothing like him? {First Cuts.}

+ Non-sports: Zac Efron’s pool party. {Funny or Die.} Why Vimeo rocks. {Slate.}

Quotable:

“I was of two minds about Jordan’s adventure. Yes, he would be taking the job of a more deserving individual, likely some kid who had spent 16 hours a day in a batting cage and who would’ve crawled on his nose through an army of fire ants to draw a minor league salary. On the other hand, there was something gallant about Jordan going into baseball at age 31, especially after the White Sox assigned him to Double-A ball in Birmingham. Even if he had deluded himself into thinking he could be a major leaguer, Jordan had to realize pretty quickly that he would never be a star outfielder and probably wasn’t even a solid backup. The only time I had ever seen Jordan remotely embarrassed was during 1990 All-Star Weekend, when he entered the three-point shooting contest and made only three of his 15 shots, getting eliminated in the first round. (Of course, two years later, during the Finals against the Portland Trail Blazers, the same guy would make six three-pointers en route to 35 points in the first half of Game 1.) And here he was setting himself up for months of embarrassment in Birmingham.

Still, on Jordan plied in this strange out-of-the-spotlight season, saying all the right things as he worked hard, rode buses and shared cheap motel rooms with his Barons teammates, just two seasons after he and his fellow Dream Teamers had stayed in luxurious digs with armed guards in Barcelona. Years later I had cause to be in Birmingham on a few occasions and did several interviews about the one season that Jordan spent there. According to the people I talked to, Jordan had helped the community and minor league baseball in general just by being in uniform and not putting on a I’m-Michael-Jordan-and-you’re-not attitude. They had nothing bad to say about what turned out to be a one-season diversion.” – Jack McCallum