Vince Gallero at Chicago Sports Review posted a Q&A with Cubs beat reporter Paul Sullivan (of the Chicago Tribune) and White Sox beat reporter Scot Gregor (Daily Herald). (HT: The Cub Reporter, via BTF Newsblog.) The difference in the two is significant.

Gregor is respectful of both baseball bloggers and performance analysts. Sullivan is dismissive of "stats geeks" and comes across as bitter toward bloggers.

The difference between the two writers appears most evident in this exchange:

What has been the effect in general of Internet baseball writing on your job?
[Gregor]: You have to be a lot more thorough and accurate, because there is a lot of information out there, and people are reading it.
[Sullivan]: I get more annoying e-mails, but that's about it. . . .

Earlier, on baseball blogs, Sullivan states, "I never read them." There is evidence to the contrary. See here, here, here, and here.

Contrast Sullivan further with the answer Trib columnist Rick Morrissey gave to a question asked in an interview by View from the Bleachers in July 2004:

I don't read them much at all, and that's a reflection on me and not the people who do it. I don't have a whole lot of time to be online, what with my job and my family. But I will say this about blogs: There is room for a lot of voices. It would be a boring (and twisted) world if everybody agreed with what I write.

Completely respectful.