More "Byko" Anti-Blogger BS

There's been something burning me up all day, and I just want to take a minute or two (but no more) and share it.

You see, columnist Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News decided to attack bloggers in general again yesterday with this laughably nonsensical column (oh, but for a time, it was actually the most viewed item on philly.com's site over the last two days; I don't know if that's a more pathetic commentary on the site overall or its readers).

Stu shared the following with us (and for the uninitiated, he's referring to ballplayers on the Phillies)...

I DON'T have a blog. If I did blog, this is what it would be like. (To make it seem like a real blog, I'll include typos and factual errors.)

Ha and ha, Stu - jackass...

Will someone please create a shrine for whoever brouhgt (sic) Raul Ibanez to town?

While he gets competition from the peppy Shane Victorino, Always All-Star Chase Utley and Hammering Ryan Howard, Ibanez connected with (sometimes finicky) Philly fans. The creaky old guy even has a joyous nick-name - Rauuul.

It's great. He's great. (While in the geriatric center, high five to fan-friendly family man Jamie Mayer - sic.)

You'd have to go back to the '95 World Series team to find Phillies so adored, even if you wouldn't let some of them near your sister. The current champions are like choirboys.

They're fun to watch, they don't quit, they dirty their uniforms and they personify professionalism.

Guys love their guts and girls love their cutes.

How can you not love them?

Umm...I don't know exactly what this is representative of; possibly a delusional mind and nothing more?

Let me conclude this insipid interlude by pointing out the following (referred to by an astute commenter...and no, it wasn't me).

As noted here, Stu Bykofsky claimed that "another 9/11 might help America," or words to that effect.

And was he suspended? Fired, even?

Why, no. His work was published again the following week and each week thereafter. Hell, if anything, he was rewarded (though I'll admit that it's a stretch to consider an interview on Fix Noise as a reward).

However, if a blogger (or Bykofsky's idea of one, composing something complete with "typos and factual errors") published something like that, this person would quite rightly be utterly vilified.

"WTF," indeed.