Dan Gray

Coach of Peoria Notre Dame CC and Track since fall of 1988.

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@VinnysCorner1 Ted Sizemore

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@miles_commodore Probably 2 of the 3 most-quoted movies of my generation... Blues Brothers was the 3rd!

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@HawkEmDownChris It was hard to keep up with Robin Williams! He'd be on Johnny Carson and slip into 30-40 different voices, accents, impressions and trains of thought before Johnny could even ask him a question! Hilarious and dizzying!

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@ErnestKopp2 @ChrisParno Absolutely. The correct nomenclature should be "Regional" or "Sectional" Champs etc. Not sure why lots of us in the area started referring to it as plurals (many years ago for some of us!)

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@RoyalCoug @OleTimeHardball I guess Rickey wasn't traded each time he switched teams... Some were free agent signings...

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@RoyalCoug @OleTimeHardball ...and the most leadoff home runs in history... He may have led MLB history in being traded the most times, essentially, with 13 times moving teams (including 3x with the A's)

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@MLB @Phillies How many complete games during this streak?

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@BarrySchust Tudor. Moyer was a workhorse who seemed to reinvent himself, especially after some awful years with the A's

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@ErnestKopp2 @ChrisParno Agree... But we generally use Regionals or Sectionals (plural) when referring to the qualifying rounds. State is singular.

This combination is odd, the more I think about it.

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@OC8653 @Super70sSports NINE. TIMES.

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@uscfan981 Michigan touches more Great Lakes than any other state!

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@VinnysCorner1 Larry "Mr K" Kenon

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@OleTimeHardball Enzo Hernandez... Also Randy Jones

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@ScribSports @AugieNash Listened to both Forsch's no-hitters on the radio... The first one in my friend's clubhouse! So exciting hearing Jack Buck and Mike Shannon covering it!

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@BBGreatMoments Hobbs, with Benny the Jet on deck

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@Super70sSports Willie Horton and Bill Freehan

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@FunFootballPod @packers_access When an NFL team from a town of around 108,000 residents can be relevant year after year, and has multiple Super Bowl wins, then you KNOW the Packers is the only correct answer!

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@OleTimeHardball Walter "The Big Train" Johnson. Bob "Mr. Baseball" Uecker, Jimmy Wynn - The Toy Cannon. Arnold "Bake" McBride, Big Poison and Little Poison Paul and Lloyd Waner.

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@BBGreatMoments Al Bundy - Polk High... Oh, wait...that was four TOUCHDOWNS.

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@huntmartinpga We had one or two bats to share between about 25 neighborhood kids. One baseball glove per guy. Usually 5-8 baseballs that were nearly black from years of dirt and mud on them. No sleeves, batting or sliding gloves... We were very so-so players but loved every minute of it.