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

+ Woman swims across all five great lakes. {NBC Chicago.}

+ Ted Kennedy’s ties in sports. {The Sporting Blog.}

+ Sports Illustrated touts its “Favre-free” issue. {Access Vikings.}

+The juiciest jheri curls in sports history. {No Guts, No Glory.}

+ Non-sports: Ikea switches fonts. {Typophile.} Microsoft apologizes for Photoshop fail. {Mashable.}

Quotable:

“And so you have a guy who throws a 97-mph fastball, a devastating slider, a 68-mph curveball and an occasionally devastating change-up. As mentioned, he fields his position. He’s got a good quick move. He’s been the toughest guy in the American League to hit homers against, he’s second in the league in strikeouts, he’s fifth in the league in walks per nine, and he’s second in the league in WHIP.

Over the last year — this would include last September — he’s 16-9, 2.39 ERA, 224 Ks in 214 innings, 46 walks and 12 homers allowed for one of the worst teams in the league. Nobody has been better than that.

You know Carlos Beltran had that amazing playoffs for Houston and then signed the huge deal then had the great season for the Mets in 2006. During that time, people would come up occasionally and say, ‘Sure, you knew Carlos Beltran was good in KC but you couldn’t have known he would be THIS GOOD.’

We knew. We really did. Baseball might not be great in Kansas City, but it does count. And I’ll just say it again: Zack Greinke’s the best pitcher in the game.” – Joe Posnanski