PS I am still trying to grow out of slamming my clubs into the ground after a duff shot and/or expletives – hubby is the only witness to these reprehensible antics of course.

P – when she says she doesn’t want negative comments – that means she doesn’t handle it very well. Here in Atlanta, we had to put up with Michael Vick’s lack of ability to handle negative comments. (speaking just in the football arena – not the dog issue) He even came out once and told people that they should praise him, not boo him because he threw for 200 yards in one game. he could do it all and nobody should boo him. You take the good with the bad – especially when you are as boisterous as CK.

The tone of your piece paints Ms. Kim as someone who’s basically on Twitter for adoration and can’t handle negativity because it ruins the fun. And that just isn’t true. She handles negativity plenty well. I’ve been following CKim’s Tweets since she got on the service and I’ve seen her respond, in an amazingly good-natured way, to some real idiots who’ve who’ve made ridiculous statements about everything from her weight to her clothes to her breast size. I know I wouldn’t have been nearly so tolerant with those stupid/arrogant/useless men…oh, I mean “people” there might be some women involved (yeah right). Frankly I don’t think most of us have would have been so tolerant. It was simply regarding the on-course behavior issue that she was letting people know that it was not something that she was going to change, so filling up her Twitter feed with thousands of references was …yes just a waste of time… did she expect the comments to stop, no of course she didn’t, maybe die down a bit though. And I be they probably will too.

That brings me to my second point, your piece also appears to paint Cristina Kim as someone who’s “naïveté around what is to be expected from the general public interaction that happens via social media” may have caused her to be shocked by the negative Twitter reactions to her Solheim behavior. I absolutely don’t think Cristina Kim is naïve…about social media or anything else media-related. She’s been out the getting all sorts of attention – mostly positive, but definitely ample negative – for much longer than Twitter has. And she’s always handled it in keeping with who she is.

Now, though I don’t agree with your take on this issue, I think it’s great that you expressed your thoughts on it. I totally agree that bloggers and the blogosphere should not “become the cheer leading section” for the “athlete du jour” and that dissenting opinions should be expressed as loudly as popular ones. (Thankfully we have Court as a roll model for that) ;o)