Since Wednesday’s big news, there’s a guy I’ve been wanting to extend an online handshake to. Rob McMillin and I communicated extensively during the run-up to the McCourt purchase of the Dodgers in late 2003-early 2004 – the saga was a big reason why he founded 6-4-2, one of Southern California’s earliest baseball blogs. At the time, I think we felt like proverbial voices in the wilderness in our suspicion of the worthiness of McCourt.

So much has happened since then, but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed our back-and-forth and the friendship that came from it.

Kershaw LXXXVIII: Kershawtel California
Braves at Dodgers, 12:10 p.m.