Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Politics / Woods Paul Stanley: the Roger Maris of Tennessee Politics
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM
The new edition is out and guess what? It's just like the last one except it's the first one brought to you by your new secretary of state Tre Hargett. His name is emblazoned on the cover and the spine, just in case anyone was wondering who's responsible for this fabulous book.
On page 28, Pith noticed one other change. Paul Stanley is now the Roger Maris of Tennessee politics. There's an asterisk by his name.
* Paul Stanley resigned from the Senate effective August 10, 2009.
That's it. There's no explanation, although there's a big glob of white space below the asterisk. Schoolchildren across the state will scratch their heads in puzzlement over this for centuries to come. Why did Paul Stanley resign? they will ask. There was room in Stanley's bio graf to state right at the beginning that he's an evangelical Christian. So that's good to know.
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*For more information about Paul Stanley, please contact your school's Guidance Office to learn how you can apply for the Tennessee General Assembly's internship program. (NOTE: This program is NOT advisable for wide-eyed idealists, anyone unable to handle soul-crushing disillusionment or attractive female students in general.)
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For the record, Roger Maris never actually had an asterisk. Thus says wikipedia:
In the middle of the season, baseball commissioner Ford Frick announced that unless Ruth's record was broken in the first 154 games of the season, the new record would be shown in the record books as having been set in 162 games while the previous record set in 154 games would also be shown. It is an urban legend, probably invented by New York sportswriter Dick Young, that an asterisk would be used to distinguish the new record...
No asterisk was subsequently used in any record books — Major League Baseball itself had no official record book, and Frick later acknowledged that there never was official qualification of Maris' accomplishment.
I was not aware of this until I just looked it up. Thought I would share.
