T.J. Brown was kind enough to let me know that David Kaplan took it upon himself to “call me out” by pseudonym in whatever his night show is called on Wednesday. As usual, Kaplan was railing on Alfonso Soriano and was apparently mad at a comment on made on his latest post. What’s that, you say? You don’t see a comment from me on that post? Oh, right. That’s because Kaplan is now approving or disapproving comments (at least MY comments) on his site. Word to the unwise, Kap. You might not want to discourage participation from the eight people who are actually reading your blog.

If you’re wondering what riled up Burnt Sienna, all I did was pointed out to Kaplan that it was a nonsensical argument to call Soriano’s defense “not good” when Soriano has had the best arm in left field for the past three years. Moreover, until this year, Soriano has been a plus left fielder defensively for the Cubs. That is, of course, if you use things like STATISTICS instead of irrational hatred to gauge Soriano’s ability.

But instead of allowing me to comment and responding to me on his blog, Kaplan decided to call me out to the sixty-year-old men and women who actually listen to him on the radio. He apparently called me something along the lines of a Soriano defender because I don’t hate him as much as Kaplan does. Oh, and he made fun of my “silly” pseudonym. Not that it’s any of your business, Kap, but I use a pseudonym because blogging is not my job. It’s a hobby which I would not want to interfere with my real job. Oh, and the good journalists in Chicago know my real name. Moreover, I’m certainly responsible for my own comments. You don’t like something I say? You have my e-mail address, and you could always post a comment. Because that’s how blogs work. You’ll figure it out eventually. I promise I won’t even delete it.

Back to the radio show. I was going to try to call in earlier, but I was getting a haircut (remember those, Kap?). When I got out, the line was busy until the show ended. I did have the misfortune of hearing him rip Soriano and fellate Mark DeRosa at least a half-dozen times and to hear the bleating of a couple of his callers. One older gentleman called in and said that Jim Hendry had gotten rid of two guys of “integrity” and replaced them with Milton Bradley. I’ll give you exactly one second to guess to whom he was referring.

If you said Kerry Wood and Mark DeRosa, do two shots.

Now, I’m not sure how a right fielder replaced a closer and a second baseman, but that’s just the sort of nonsense that passes for radio in this town, apparently. Oh, by the way, the guy was perfectly audible, but he was slow in his speech, so Kaplan claimed he had a bad connection and cut him off. Classy move to cut off what sounded like an eighty-year-old man, Kap. At least you won’t have to deal with him much longer. You know. After he dies.