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

+ Can you name a Met? {The Fall Classic.}

+ Rush Limbaugh wants to buy the Rams. {Shutdown Corner.}

+ On ESPN’s new SweetSpot Network. {Dan Shanoff.}

+ Sagarin ranks the top college basketball programs of all-time. {Inside the Hall.}

+ Non-sports: New Vampire Weekend song: “Horchata.” {Pitchfork.} The strange case of Google News and its blog label. {Nieman Lab.}

Quotable:

“So what is it about this absurd commercial that made people happy? What is it about this commercial that made ME happy the million times I saw it as a child? I don’t know for sure … but it seems to me that it has something to do with pop culture heroes. There’s this real hunger for our sports heroes, our literary heroes, our Hollywood heroes to be great people. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if you think about it. What difference does it make if Robert DeNiro is a good guy? How does that change Raging Bull? If Mickey Mantle treats you like a pest, does that in any way shorten the length of his home runs? If Meg Ryan is really not an especially nice person, does that make her any less quirky and lovable in ‘When Harry Met Sally?’ If Bruce Springsteen ignores you, does that dampen the brilliance of ‘Badlands?’

I suppose my answer is: ‘Yeah, I guess it does a little bit.’ I mean, we are human beings. We don’t really want our heroes to treat us like jerks. We just don’t.” – Joe Posnanski