List of Five All-Time Great Halloween Sports Quotes

In honor of Halloween, here are five scary sports quotes. Alright, the quotes aren't scary but the people who say them are very scary...Happy Halloween.
1) "The guy in front of me got #76 and the guy behind me got #78."
--Red Grange, "The Galloping Ghost", on how he got number 77 during his football career
2) "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."
--Stu "The Grim Reaper" Grimson, on the Chicago Black Hawks decision to display color pictures of players over their locker room stalls.
3) "But I'm not fighting one bum a month, I'm fighting three or four."
--Buck "Tombstone" Smith, on responding to critics who said his 110-2 record was inflated  because he fought a bum a month
4) "Sometimes we have to remind Demetrius that you don't get extra points for degrees of difficulty."
--Roy Chipman, former Pittsburgh Basketball Coach, on the shot selection of Demetrius Gore
5) "We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice---once when we retire and again when death takes up."
--Johnny "Blood" McNally, Hall of Fame Running Back


NO SOFTBALL THIS WEEK FOR YOU !!! Go Trick or Treating as yourself and you will get more treats !!! C'Ya next week OBIers ...

OBI Splits with strong AAA AZ team to open Season 6 ...

Timely hitting, solid defense, two Grand Slams and +1 HRs ... That recipe (plus the other standard ingredients partaken upon within the confines of the OBI clubhouse ,,, errr dugout area) helped hold down the heavy hitting AAA AZ squad. They hit 3 maybe 4 HRs for outs ... Game 1 Bottom of 1st inning started with a HR from their leadoff hitter, and their pain began ...

The Grand Slams were courtesy of Chris Spillane (Game 1) and David Craycraft (Game 2) ... No one going Han Solo on this team ... Spillane added a 3rd Team HR with a 2-run shot late in Game 2 to cap a 9 RBI night.

Winning game 1 17-12 was a great start to the night. Again, timely hitting and solid defense were in play. A fitting end to the game was the double play from Michael to David to Matt that sparkled brightly.

The game 2 loss was due to a dwindling offensive light during the second half of the game. AAA AZ kept hitting and broke open the game with 6 in the top of the last inning. This sent OBI to a 13-19 loss ... However, we have proven our own worth to ourselves and all expect a good run in Season 6.

OBI scored 30 runs this night ... Only the 7th time we have scored 30+ runs in a double header in the 41 weeks of play thus far for 2013 ... This was the first time with 30+ runs since Week 6 of Season 4. Welcome back you offensive OBIers ...

Here are the Week 1 stats:

2013 Season 5 is complete,,, with Stats !!!

A tough season offensively as OBI was consistently inconsistent ... All thru the season, the comraderie remained at the forefront of our softball efforts and all were focused on hard play and good times ... Our Congress and Senate folk could take a few notes from the effort OBI puts forth each week ...

Here are your Season 5 and YTD Stats ...

New Blogsite Under Construction !!! OBI Wins a Tourney Game ?!?!!!!

I have given up on transferring control of onebadinningaz.blogspot.com to this new Google account and have decided to just move forward from here ... That said,,, 

CONGRATS to One Bad Inning for taking 3rd Place in the 2013 Season 5 tournament last evening. OBI won its first round game and is now 1-4 in opening round matchups in 2013 End of Season Tournament play... 220,,, 221,, whatever it takes ...

Stats for Season 5 will be posted over the weekend and we can begin the push for the holidaze with our weekly fill of blog postings once again... Never fear, Underdog is here !!!

We are playing next week to begin Season 6 of the Victory Lane Softball season with two returning players in David and Keith Craycraft. Unfortunately, this does push Paul and Shylo back to On Call status for Season 6. Both played hard in Season 5 and will be missed...


Congrats again to our two most Senior players, Larry and Michael. Finished with Silver medals at the 2013 World Masters Championships in Vegas a couple weeks ago... Click Here for a link to pictures from the winner's bracket finals game between the Tucson Bandits and Stanislaus Sluggers ...