The Wrestling Thread that's not about anything.....
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cruiser_96
I ran out of gas. Pataskala/Johnstown area. My wife is on her way with 3 or 4 gallons.
It happens.
Prayers (and gas) appreciated. -
Gardens35$3.79 in Blacklick.
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said_aouita
"I wasn't even on E!?!"
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cruiser_96
A few things on this...
#1) I new I was on 'E' and did everything I could to make it to the gas station by the house. I passed one but it was $3.99. When I left my house a few hours earlier, the price was $3.61. I was thinking... ummm, no. I'll hope I make it home and save $0.30 a gallon!
#2) While waiting for my wife to arrive with the gas, I think I witnessed a drug deal. Car A pulls to the left side berm (about 100 yards from me) just shy of the exit ramp intersection, and waits...and waits...and waits. Then, a car pulls up the ramp. Stops. The driver gets out, walks over to the awaiting car, they exchange something and a bookbag. That's just about the time I thought I needed to investigate what sounded like a stranfe ticking under my hood.
#3) I think that is all.
#4) Nope. It's not. I'm putting together a preview for our local wrestling teams.
#5) THAT is all. -
cruiser_96
ps: when I got home, the gas at that station was - you guessed it - $3.99.
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firestonefan
I was at a station yesterday and paid for gas at $3.69. Before pumping the attendant stopped all the pumps and upped the price to $3.99. I went in, bitched and got my money back and went to the next station. $3.69 -
Gardens35
^^^^Obviously from North East Ohio............ -
cruiser_96
I'm gonna wait 'til the midnight hour...
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cruiser_96
Go Buckeyes!!!
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said_aouita
Really really really really really can't wait until next year. That tOSU team is gonna be really fun.cruiser_96;1271399 wrote:Go Buckeyes!!!
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cruiser_96
They are awesome. Gotta grow depth AND avoid the injury bug.
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said_aouita
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cruiser_96
After a disappointing BigTen tournament, he bounced back very well. Excellent kid.
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said_aouita
I'm ashamed for not choosing him in the pick 'em contest.cruiser_96;1274279 wrote: Excellent kid.
So stupid of me. -
cruiser_96
Up with the sun, gone with the wind. She always said I was crazy.
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GantI am so ready to watch the bucks this year!
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Gardens35view.
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cruiser_96
Did anyone else see that Gardens35 viewed this thread? It happened last week, but I gotta be honest, it made such an impression on me that I'm still talking about it!
Actually, the above made me think about what The Mighty Port did this past Friday night...
On Friday, September 21st, 2012, the Groveport Madison Athletic Department inducted its first class of honorees into the GMHS Athletic Hall of Fame. 15 athletes/coaches and one team were honored that night.
#01) The 1910 OHSAA State Champion baseball team
#02) Mac Sims - 23 varsity letters. Was a WWII POW
#03) Lucinda Doersam - Coached just about every sport imaginable for female high school sports. During and after WWII, female sports were sort of put on the backburner, but Lucinda saw educational benefits through sport and thus started the Girls Athletic Association. #BeastMode
#04) Ken Zarbaugh - Football, basketball. Held a record at Otterbein. Enlisted in the Marines, and was called into service (WWII) shortly after high school graduation
#05) Jim McKee - Class of 1965 - Football, basketball and baseball, as well as a coach. After being drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and playing a few years, he returned to Groveport Madison to be a teacher, where he coached girls' basketball and track & field.
#06) Bob Miller - Coach Miller had one of the most successful runs as a coach during his ten year stint as a head basketball caoch.
#07) Pat Curto - 1972 state champion at 185lbs. He also played football and was 2nd in rushing in high school - behind Archie Griffin. He went on to play football at Ohio State. Curto is one of four players to have played in four Rose Bowls. He was later drafted by the Atlanta Falcons.
#08) Tony Lowery - Athlete extraordinaire. Went to Wisconsin on a football AND basketball scholarship, and was the BigTen Freshman of the Year in football. Played in the arena football league.
#09) Marcia Kitchen - Volleyball, basketball and softball player. Earned All-District in volleyball and earned a scholarship to Ohio University for softball.
#10) Calvin Booth - Basketball. played at PSU where he graduated as the all-time BigTen leader of blocked shots, and was drafted into the NBA.
#11) Lilia Osterloh - Tennis. State runner-up as a freshman; champion as a sophomore. Then played the junior circuit as a junior and senior. As a freshman at Stanford, she won an individual championship as a freshman which helped the team win the 1997 NCAA championship. From there she went pro. She reached the round of 16 in both Wimbbledon and the US Open. (And was my date for the 8th grade dance. Just saying.)
#12) Lashawn Alexander - Track. 110 high hurdles. Was a 4x state qualifier, 6x place-winner and a state champion for the the 110HH. He ran at Toledo and now lives in Arizona.
#13) Tiffany Flomo - Tiffany was a state champion in the 300 meter hurdles and her state meet time time of 40.79 stills stands as the record. Tiffany ran at UNC and now lives in NY.
#14) Eric Smith - While Eric did excel in football, he also played basketball. He won just about every award you could in high school as far as school and local scholarships was concerned. Passed up Harvard and Yale to play at MSU, and was then drafted by the Jets. He is #33.
#15) & #16) Heather and Jenny Bradford - swimming. Both were 8x OCC champions and both were multiple-time place-winners at the state meet. Heather won the 100y butterfly and Jenny won both the 50y and 100y freestyle. Jenny 50y freestyle time of 22.73 seconds is the D-I record. Both wen to Uni. of Kentucky to swim.
We had a great ceremony on Friday night. Heck yeah! Proud to be A CRUISER!!! -
said_aouita
That's more impressive than being a 4xSectional qualifier.cruiser_96;1278931 wrote: #11) Lilia Osterloh - Tennis. State runner-up as a freshman; champion as a sophomore. Then played the junior circuit as a junior and senior. As a freshman at Stanford, she won an individual championship as a freshman which helped the team win the 1997 NCAA championship. From there she went pro. She reached the round of 16 in both Wimbbledon and the US Open. (And was my date for the 8th grade dance. Just saying.)
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cruiser_96
Thank you, thank you!
She's GREAT people. -
cruiser_96
This is classic stuff right here... http://www.ohiochatter.com/forum/showthread.php?310-TheMightyCruiser-has-been-resurrected!!!
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cruiser_96
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cruiser_96
I sit Indian style on a western commode -
Bah bah bah....... -
cruiser_96
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cruiser_96
I may have told this story before, but after what just transpired, I want to tell it again.
Backdrop: I am the In School Suspension monitor for GMHS. Kids get assigned, I inform the teachers, the teachers gather work, and then send it up. When I came in this morning, a teacher had work for two students waiting on my desk. One of the kids arrived. After the announcements, I handed him (what I thought was) his work. He said, "I don't have this teacher."
Now, in my mind I'm thinking what teacher, 4.5 weeks in to the school year doesn't know their kids!? But, rather than lash out, I asked him to clarify. He informed me that there are two kids with the same name in the same grade in the same school. And if that's not bad enough, they both have the same class at one point in the day!
I tell you that to tell you this...
One year when running our JV tournament, we had two kids from different schools with the same name. And, you guessed it... in the same weight class!!! Talk about a nightmare. Actually, it was only a nightmare at the weigh-ins. When the first kid stepped up to the scale, the coach doing weigh-ins asked his name. "John Smith" - as a matter of fact, it wasn't that common of a name if memory serves me correctly. Anywho, the coach scroll the list of names and when he found it, put the weight in. Later on, another kid with the same name appraoched, and the coach just went about the business of finding a name that didn't have a weight next to it.
It wasn't until we started creating the pools that it hit the fan. "How can a kid get listed twice, from different schools, weigh-in twice and have a pound difference!?" ... "Better yet, WHO WEIGHS IN TWICE!?!?!?!"
After sending out the search party to find a coach from one of the schools, we asked, "Do you have Kid A" and they said yes. Not sensing the need to check with the other coach, we omitted the other kid.
Well, while the first round was starting, and after the pools were put up for eveeryone to see, "Kid B" told his coach they have him listed for the wrong team. That coach told us, and then the situation started becoming evident. Two kids, two schools, one name, same weight class.
The good news is, it was weight class 145 or 160, so by the time they were scheduled to be on the mat, we had everything corrected.
Crazy stuff, man. Crazy stuff.