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Originally Posted by philcski

I couldn't pick Herb Castillo out from a lineup of NBA players and I call him "Herbie", that's what everybody calls him... like "Johnny V", or "Javy".

And where I live, we get "Roddied" every single day. Hes a local owner who always has some nice horses. The announcers on the local otb network talk about him and his horses all day long, and they always say "roddy" and never use his last name.
Quiet frankly he may the be most famous horseguy up here in terms of coevrage by the local media.
Almost everyone up around here who doesnt even KNOW him would say "Roddy" and I doubt any of them are "name dropping".