Jerry West? (oh wait, wrong sport)

But for MLB, I think it was that series when some Bill guy hit a walk off home run to win the World Series.

Anyway, I don't watch football, but can't help sharing this post I saw on Facebook:

Pete Rose

- Caught cheating once, admitted to guilt: banned for life

Tom Brady

- Caught cheating multiple times, denies guilt: allowed to play

Get this, 0AB 4R 0H 1RBI 4BB 20#P

<Did not swing at a single pitch, once!>

<Did not swing at a single pitch, once!>>

The only game they've won in the last week was by a 7-6 score when Verlander starter and the bullpen just couldn't give it away.

Yankees' last 6 games: W W W L W W

Toronto's last 6 games: W W W L W W

:|

Tony Zych. Hehe. 100+ year old record. This reminds me of some story some user told me on this site about people changing their last name just so they can be the last in the phone book. But that's not the type of attention you want to get. :P Like do you guys ever feel sorry for the owner of the phone number of xxx-123-4567 or xxx-111-1111 or something?

<PB> You said in the Bistro that <Others have promoted some of them (and how I hate those numbers in the Event Name. But now I'm stuck with using them>

Did you mean the Event names of the US Opens in TI? I could try to help you out, via slips, but need to know exactly what you want.

<MissScarlett: I notice the bio of Edward Lasker credits him with winning five US Opens, but these tournaments were known as Western championships (or championships of the Western Chess Association, to be precise) at the time. I don't favour the practise of retroactively recasting events that changed their name or form. What do you think?>

So I am now using the number in all new submissions, e.g., [Event: 53rd US Open]. Of course there are thousands of games I submitted with just "US Open", and I suppose they should all be changed at some point.

Perhaps the best thing to do would be to go ahead and start promoting the finished tournaments, particularly beginning in 1940 when the name "US Open" began to be used. Probably the biggest weakness of the collections is the narrative. I don't approve of mindless "cut-and-paste" from other reports, but haven't felt up to providing much of my own work. I still have some large chunks of games "in the hopper", so it would probably be best if I nominated the collections myself or was at least notified beforehand so I could stop the process if necessary.

<MissScarlett>'s remark, though directed specifically at a statement in Edward Lasker's bio, is an interesting point. The tournament has undergone at least three name changes, and it's not always clear when these took place. The consecutive numbering since 1900 is too depply ingrained to be changed, but the pre-1940 tournaments should have their own actual names. There simply needs to be a way to indicate they are part of the US Open series.