Kermit of Hire Jim Essian weighs in with a condemnation of the Cubs blog reaction to Paul Sullivan's Tweet calling Milton Bradley an idiot, concluding:

You know what makes me so angry about this? It’s quite possible for the mainstream media and the blog world to coexist peacefully. I enjoyed the hell out of meeting Bruce Miles and Paul Sullivan at Kitty O’Shea’s this past month. I liked being on Kaplan’s show with Dolan and Chuck. It’s fun talking baseball with guys who (like it or not, you angry, angry bloggers) have FAR more insight into the team than you ever will. Guys who see these players as people instead of positions and uniform numbers. Guys who have good days and bad days. Guys who will occasionally be up against a deadline and trot out a stinker of a column. Sullivan has. Miles has. God knows Kaplan has.

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But I can hardly blame those guys if they never want to come out to meet a bunch of internet people again. I can’t blame Kaplan if he decides not to have another “blogger’s roundtable” discussion. There are too many assholes in the Cubs blogosphere who think they know everything about everything. I have some sobering news for you guys. You’re not going to change the franchise, because no one of organizational importance listens to any of us. And thank God they don’t. If they did, Michael Barrett would still be on this team, and Carlos Zambrano would be traded. Our starting outfielders would be Matt Murton, Felix Pie, and Adam Dunn. Rich Hill would be the number one starter, barely beating out Sean Gallagher in Spring Training. The infield would be anchored at the corners by David Kelton and Brian Dopirak, with Luis Montanez and Eric Patterson turning nifty double plays up the middle.

If you want an audience with the Cubs, go back to journalism school, and try your hardest to take Sullivan’s job from him. Until then, lighten the fuck up. You’re giving those of us who are just doing this for fun a bad name.

Here is a nice summation of what happened, in case you missed it. I'm not sure exactly how all of this gives someone who pretends to be Lou Piniella writing a diary a bad name. But fine.

That said, Kermit also criticizes me for emailing the Trib sports editor to inquire about whether the Tweet was kosher. While I continue to believe that it was inappropriate, that's a fair point and something I felt kinda bad about that - and told Sullivan and Mike Kellams that.

They didn't seem to care (but were nice about it).