Dear Rochester: Game on.

Earlier this month, I wrote a column asking why New Yorkers are losing their minds over Wegmans opening in Brooklyn — essentially mocking my fellow urbanites, once renowned for shocking the rest of America with our weirdness, rudeness and brashness, now reduced to fever dreams over grocery stores.

Here’s the controversial line: “This is Wegmans, an exotic (!) import originating in upstate New York — not fashionable or hipster upstate New York, not Rhinebeck or Kingston, but grim and depressing Rochester.”

Guess who didn’t get offended: city dwellers.

Guess who did: Rochesterians, who let me know in emails that keep on coming — amazingly, not from AOL addresses — how wrong I was to describe Rochester as such.

It gets better: The Rochester Red Wings, the city’s Triple-A baseball franchise, has announced “Maureen Callahan Night” on Aug. 21.

“We think it’d be great for her to come here and show her what Rochester is,” Tim Doohan, the Red Wings social media and promotions manager, told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. “We hope she can make it and throw out the first pitch.”

With all due respect, Tim, I’m a reporter, and I know a softball pitch when I see one. It’s quite possible I’ll be walking into an ambush of outraged fans. No doubt dozens will turn out for a hot night of minor league baseball. Or maybe you just need someone to come and play shortstop?

Call me a cynical Brooklynite, but despite the team’s insistence that it’s an “appreciation, not depreciation night,” my emails suggest otherwise. A sampling:

“You should be careful about throwing stones from your downstate high horse … Everyone up in Rochester loves to read about how one community after another finally discovers what it’s like to shop in a real grocery store.”

“We don’t have mega skyscrapers or major sports teams but only idiots like you live in NYC.”

“The city is right on Lake Ontario, which is one of the beautiful Great Lakes. Yes, we have some clouds in the fall … so what?”

“I beg your pardon, but this city has much to offer. Come for a visit and spend time at the Strong Museum, along the Erie Canal and in the Finger Lakes Region. And you might even want to see the premiere Wegmans located in Pittsford!”

“I must say, in many ways, Rochester is a ‘cold’ community, and yes, little sun so therefore dreary, but those who are staunch Rochesterians are proud to say they are from or live in Rochester.”

“Respectfully take [your] opinion and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. I am sure you are too good to be caught dead shopping for your own food, you probably hire some lowly intern to do your shopping or worse yet Instacart everything and have it delivered” — guilty as charged on the latter — “… I hope you received the invite from our minor league baseball team to attend an appreciation night in your honor. Please, please have the guts to attend.”

Dear reader, and all outraged Rochesterians: I will be there, along with a cadre of my fellow Posties!

We can’t wait to see all Rochester has to offer — including the “premiere Wegmans” and your version of a Bronx cheer.

See you next summer! Now, how do we get there?