Going for a record

The news that Alex Trebek, Pat Sajak and Vanna White have all signed through the 2015-16 season has set off some speculation that they may be aiming for Bob Barker's 35-year record on The Price is Right.

Pat, Alex and Vanna don't phone me regularly - or at all, in fact - so I can't say for sure what their aim is. But I'm skeptical that they have Barker's record in mind. Truth to tell, they probably don't mind what they're doing and they're getting paid awfully well for it. So why not keep on keeping on?

I'm a baseball fan and I've seen players hang around forever in an effort to capture a big record. Pete Rose's obsessive pursuit of Ty Cobb's hits record got almost silly (not to mention Rose's gambling fiasco). But there is no game show hall of fame that honors statistical records.

Still, who knows? Maybe one or more of the trio is thinking about making it through Barker's three-and-a-half decades and then some. As the linked story notes, they're all a lot younger than Barker was when he finally packed it in.