Jerod Mayo won the AP Rookie Defensive Rookie of the Year, winning 49 of 50 first-place votes. That in and of itself is nice, but not that interesting. The interesting part is the 50th first-place vote. That ended up going to the Bengals' LB Keith Rivers. Rivers played all of seven games before a jaw injury ended his season, courtesy of a block by the Steelers' Hines Ward.

The Boston Globe revealed today that the infamous 50th vote came from Jay Paris of the North County Times. His reasoning? "Tell Mayo I owe him one. My bad."

If you're thinking that Paris' name is vaguely familiar, you're right. Paris was one of the Edinson Volquez Three - one of three voters who voted for him in the NL Rookie of the Year voting, when Volquez was not eligible as a rookie.

Insert your own snark about newspapers, voters and rookies here. Perhaps should get out of the press box more often and start burying himself in computers more frequently.