Sam Mellinger and Joe Posnanski engage in the sweetest, most literary, Midwestern-nice Internet feud in history

This, folks, is how some Kansas Citians disagree on the Internet:

This morning, the Star‘s Sam Mellinger wrote a gutsy little column about how the Baseball Hall of Fame screwed up its first choice for the Buck O’Neil Award, which will honor the former Kansas City Monarch and baseball pioneer.

Joe Posnanski — former Star columnist, current Sports Illustrated scribe and, judging by his columns and his reputation, the nicest person ever to grace the press-box lunch line — disagreed entirely. So he responded. But he did it in the most Posnanskian way possible, which doubles as the least Whitlockian way possible. Handy!