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Last night saw Henry Abbott (True Hoop), Matt Ufford (With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber), Dan Shanoff (Dan Shanoff), A.J. Daulerio (Deadspin), Darvin Ham (Wizznutzz), Will Leitch (Deadspin), Peter Schrager (Fox Sports) and I gather in a Brooklyn bar (with bocce!) for a meeting of the minds and the drinking of crap beer.

Despite this being the first time meeting all these guys in person, there was nary an awkward moment save for when I handed out cards as gifts (see: '91 Skybox Bernard King for Darvin, see also: '89 Score Brian Bosworth for Matt and '80 Topps Ted Simmons for Will). We basically stood around talking about YouTube and RSS between rounds of tequila and cigarettes for four or five hours. It was great fun, perfectly summed up by Schrager's email to all involved this morning:

"I witnessed a man pissing on to the tracks while I was waiting for the subway back last evening. Just me and him. Him just pissing. Me just nodding...like a proud father. Great finish to a fun night... "

Of course, the above photo -- which needs to be photoshopped to hell -- is orbiting the blogosphere today and drawing comparisons to the Young Guns movie poster (Shanoff) and Elliott Ness' crew from Untouchables (ironically, FanHouse newbie John Ness). And the KSK kids are having a field day with comments ranging from "white people!" to "nerds!" to "homos!" All of which are well-deserved.

Sports Bloggers Agree: We Rule [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
Last Night's Conspiracy of Dunces [Dan Shanoff]
Friday Bullets [True Hoop]

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• #5 Comment from monponsett 
  1/22/07 11:20 PM | Permalink

  One of the last things Bob did before AOL 86d him was to prevent me from starting a Black Voices AOL blog. I was going to kick-start the civil rights movement (I'm like 5% Portuguese, you see). I forget the name Imade up,but it was funny. I would have never got it by Cheryl, though.
• #4 Comment from dcsportsguyEntry Author 
  1/22/07 11:14 PM | Permalink

  No, Monpon, that Miss Gossip is the NBA FanHouse writer/artist.
  
  The Cheryl you speak of now blogs for AOL's Black Voices site.
• #3 Comment from monponsett 
  1/22/07 11:11 PM | Permalink

  Is Miss Gossip Cheryl from the Jess Atkinson Show?
• #2 Comment from missgossipnba 
  1/20/07 11:19 PM | Permalink

  That's the finest gang of white boys I done seen in a hot minute!
• #1 Comment from sussdriver 
  1/20/07 6:01 PM | Permalink

  I agree. Having it in Ohio is a great idea.