One dinner. Four journalists. And you. Whom do you choose?

I agree, Ruth's Chris sucks. For this dinner we'll go Smith and Wollensky's in New York or Peter Luger's, and the invitations would go to:
Woodward (for obvious reasons)
Shirley Povich (no one bridged more generations)
Jim Murray (wouldn't it be cool to have him at the table?)
Mark Kriegel (figure he'd some good stories -- about players, coaches and Lupica).

One more person I'd invite is Jonaco because I think he'd have a good time.

 

Tony Barnhart, Chad Ford, Beano Cook, and Tony Horwitz.