One Degree of Separation....

....between the Philadelphia Phillies and Ron Paul.

Rand Paul, the son of the Texas congressman who ran that so-crazy-it-just-might-work campaign-turned-revolution in the Republican primary last year, declared this week that he is going to run for a Senate seat from the state of Kentucky. Talk about trying to one-up your father.

Obviously, this is exciting news in and of itself. Rand has a pretty legitimate shot at the seat, and at the very least his odds are better than his father's run last year. Drawing on the nation-wide popularity that Ron Paul generated last year, Rand should be looking at a pretty solid pool of donations.

But with the election still well over a year away, I'll save the political posturing.

Here's the other exciting part of the story: the seat that Rand will be running for is currently held by two-term Senator, and former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, Jim Bunning.

Bunning compiled an impressive record of 224-184, and was selected to seven All-Star games, during his major league career while pitching for four different teams. He actually played just three seasons in Philadelphia, but he is forever remembered as a Phillie because he threw the only perfect game in franchise history - on Father's Day in 1964 against the New York Mets.

Of course, the 1964 Mets were probably one of the easiest teams in history to throw a perfect game against (perhaps surpassed only by the 1962 and 1963 Mets), but it still counts the same as the other 17 perfect games in baseball history.