The CrunchDream 5: Who is Mike Arrington's Charles Barkley?

CrunchDream: Who is Mike's Charles Barkley? 
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Mike Arrington just wrote a Blogger Dream Team Manifesto, admonishing other prominent bloggers about raising too much capital, with the clearly stated goal of doing a rollup with some of them and subsequently "crushing" Dan Farber and CNet. 

He's even gone so far as to post a picture of the original basketball Dream Team from the 1992 Olympics (i'm guessing Mike wants to be like Mike).

It's an impressive gauntlet thrown, but what i want to know is:
Who is Arrington's Blogger equivalent of Charles Barkley?

The original CrunchTron 4 i put together was inspired by the Crunchies sponsors, but there were only 4 of them... who's the 5th Dream Teamer?

* Michael Jordan = Michael Arrrington, TechCrunch
* Magic Johnson = Om Malik, GigaOm
* Karl Malone = Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb
* Patrick Ewing = Matt Marshall, VentureBeat
* Charles Barkley = ?????

Henry Blodget?  Mathew Ingram?  Rafat Ali? (not anymore, it seems)

other suggestions in the comments, please?

Comments

[Mathew Ingram]

I already said I want to be Magic. If I can't be Magic then I'm not playing :-)

[Allen Stern]

two quick things based on your team players...

1. in the way the internet works - a player may be a player that might become another player on the team later on to which the initial player they were might become someone else.
2. barkley = me to begin with.

[Scott Schnaars]

For the record, Barkley was the leading scorer for both the 1992 & 1996 Dream Team (Trivial Pursuit question the other night).

If there is an Arrington Poll vote for Barkley, you've got mine, Dave.

[adam isserlis]

I'd say Mashable, Pete Cashmore.

[tom summit]

It doesn't name what the criteria is, but if it is for useful/thought provoking insight, my vote goes to Umair Hague http://www.bubblegeneration.com/

[tom summit]

It doesn't name what the criteria is, but if it is for useful/thought provoking insight, my vote goes to Umair Hague http://www.bubblegeneration.com/

[tom summit]

It doesn't name what the criteria is, but if it is for useful/thought provoking insight, my vote goes to Umair Hague http://www.bubblegeneration.com/

[Sean Ammirati]

I'd vote for Allen Stern personally ... I really think Center Networks is growing into a great property!

[Adam Metz]

I guess that makes me David Blumenthal (http://www.nba.com/playerfile/david_bluthenthal/index.html?nav=page)...

[Ben]

I think your RSS feed doesn't work...had to find out about this post without it appearing in my netvibes account...