I understand your point, I just disagree. He's like a vast majority of the media in Boston. They feel they are above the fanbase, are smarter and "objective". They feel it is a DISS to be called a "fan". They try to make it seem that any nice word, respect or benefit of the doubt given to the team means you are wearing pompoms. Just because he had nothing else to write and posts a few user comments doesn't absolve him from his pompous, self-righteous attitude. I'm not going to give him credit for being slightly less worse than another pompous jerk.
And I mean in the same article he posts the reader emails, he prefaces it with that snide comment that the only way to avoid such comments is to wear pompoms.