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

+ Mike Ditka really is the ultimate pitchman. {Bear Goggles On.}

+ Some commentary on the fake 2003 steroid list that found its way online yesterday. {ShysterBall.}

+ Drew Rosenhaus now working on behalf of Florida Panthers fans. Makes sense. {Pro Football Talk.}

+ The Michael Jordan of free agency … in Turkey. {TrueHoop.}

+ Non-sports: Billy Mays facts. {BillyMaysFacts.} Bob Dylan will be on the Beastie Boys latest album. {Contact Music.}

Quotable:

“The glory of Bartman is that he shut up. The guy could have had a reality show by this point, or become some sort of unofficial Cubs spokesman in the wake of the 2003 NLCS. But he didn’t. He released one statement about his broken Cubs fan heart, and then was never heard from again. Still, we’ve all kind of assumed that at some point, he’d return, perhaps right before the Cubs made it to the World Series again, and all would be forgiven. Cubs fans would realize how awful they were to him — and they were quite awful — and the guy could reach full absolution by throwing out the first pitch. I bet he’d get a standing ovation, and we’d recognize the depth of our sins. But what if that didn’t happen? What if he were hit by a bus this week? We’d never have closure on the Bartman story, never have a full conclusion to a story that we cruelly invented for him. Bartman would end as a ghost, just two minutes in the public eye, vanishing forever, leaving us alone, dealing with what we had wrought.” — Will Leitch