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

+ Gloria Estefan and her husband have purchased part of the Miami Dolphins. {Shutdown Corner.}

+ Report: Lance Armstrong bike-stealer to get thee years in prison. {Sports Pros(e).}

+ Transformers — Revenge of the MLB Fallen. {My Sports Rumors.}

+ Lance Stephenson is still without a school, and here’s why. {The Dagger.}

Non-sports: Roger Ebert rips the new Transformers movie … {Sun-Times.} … as does Choire. {The Awl.}

Quotable:

“Love him or hate him — and as the reaction starts to come out about this, be assured that it will run about 10 percent love, 90 percent hate — you can’t say the guy didn’t generally do a good job. In terms of working conditions and pay, baseball players are amazingly better off now than they were when he took over in 1985, and it was largely through Fehr’s leadership that the union was able to fend off ownership tactics which bordered on criminal at times, and which could have meant the end of the union if not successfully combatted. Here I’m talking about Collusions I, II and III and the 1994 lockout. If you want an example of how these episodes could have gone without better leadership, you need look no further than the NFL, whose union has repeatedly rolled over for ownership, and the umpires, who were absolutely destroyed by Selig and his friends.

The big exception here is PEDs, where Fehr’s instincts to fight tooth-and-nail against ownership ultimately did the union’s membership a disservice in my view. Yes, many were responsible for that mess, but it strikes me that it took Fehr too long to recognize that, unlike the often boring minutiae of the usual collective bargaining fodder, there were (a) competing interests within union membership on this issue; and (b) a strong public interest in its resolution. Fehr misread both of those things, and because of it, the players remain stuck in something of a P.R. nightmare and will for some time. I think that angle will be overplayed in the Fehr commentary that will follow in the coming days, but it’s not something that can be ignored either.” – Craig Calcattera