Nomar off the DL

Mega-kudos to Doug Padilla, who was covering the game last night while I worked on other stuff. He was the only one, as far as I can tell, who reported in today's paper that Nomar might be activated in time for tonight's game, which he has been. There really was no reason not to, given that he wasn't going to play in another rehab game. The corresponding move will be announced after batting practice, which will end in about 15 minutes. ... The Inland Empire 66ers, who played an early game today (11 a.m.), are here en masse, watching batting practice from behind the rope in front of the backstop, and no doubt all of them are dreaming of a day down the road when, they hope, someone will be standing behind that rope watching THEM take batting practice. ... You can hear yours truly on tonight's radio pregame show. Just taped it with Charley a few minutes ago.