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Shout Out To "Old" Dudes in Sports: Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander, Aaron Rodgers & Denny Hamlin | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What's up everybody, Charlie Marlow here want to talk about
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  old dudes in sports today. And here's the reason.
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  You probably saw yesterday the announcement that Clayton
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  Kershaw will be retiring after this season.
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  And it took me back because I remember when Clayton Kershaw
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  made his Major League debut, it was against the Cardinals.
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  It was May. I think it was late May, but it
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  was May of 2008. I think he went six innings, 7
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  strikeouts, pitch really well. Don't exactly quote me on that.
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  You can look it up, but obviously Clayton Kershaw was
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  super hyped up and was he 1920 years old?
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  However old he was, I think he's 37 now.
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  But I thought about it because I moved to Saint Louis in April of
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  2008. So it's interesting to me how
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  sometimes athletes careers will make you think about where you
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  were at a certain time with a job or moving somewhere.
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  And so as I'm thinking about Clayton Kershaw, I also thought
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  about TJ Oshi, another athlete who announced his retirement and
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  has been doing the rounds, the media rounds over the summer
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  talking about his awesome NHL career.
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  And that's another dude who I really kind of think about
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  because again, when I moved to Saint Louis April of 2008, all
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  you heard about on sports talk radio was when is TJ Oshi going
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  to make his debut for the Blues? And then he did later that next
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  season. O8O9 had a great career,
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  obviously was traded and wins a cup with the Washington Capitals
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  and then TJ Oshi now retiring. It just kind of it.
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  It just makes me think about how all these athletes who I covered
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  or I watched when I was pretty young and I just moved to Saint
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  Louis, this is 17 years ago, and how they're already freaking
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  retiring. It kind of makes me feel old.
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  I don't really feel old, but it's just like the end of these
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  chapters that make you think about your life.
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  Because TJ Oshi, for example, I think he's 37, don't quote me, I
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  think he's about 37 or so, 38, whatever it is.
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  But when I got to Saint Louis, I was 24 and I remember seeing TJ
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  Oshi back in the day at the bars, having a good time and all
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  that. And those guys like to have a
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  good time. And now he's cup winner, great
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  career, father, has all the kids and all that.
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  So it's just funny how back in the day, you're at the same bars
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  as these dudes. You covered these dudes and now
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  they're retiring, which again, kind of makes me feel old.
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  I'm 43, I don't feel that old. So then it gets me thinking
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  again about, so who are the oldest athletes in United States
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  professional sports? And I, I, I couldn't think of
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  any off the top of my head. There's really no like Jamie
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  Moyers anymore, although there's one that's close.
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  And because I cover NASCAR now, I'm thinking, so Denny Hamlin, I
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  think, I believe he's about 44 years old.
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  I think he's one year older than me.
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  And do I think NASCAR drivers are athletes?
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  I do. But it's, let's be real, it's
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  not the same level of athleticism if you're playing
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  football, baseball, basketball, hockey, whatever it is.
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  So again, I went to the old Google and the AI, the AI
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  response comes back. I just said who are the oldest
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  professional athletes? And I meant big time, not minor
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  league. Who are the oldest professional
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  athletes in US sports? And the two names that came up,
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  both Hall of Farmers, Justin Verlander.
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  Justin Verlander is 42. I believe he'll turn 43 in
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  February. I looked up still pitching well.
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  I remember picking him up for fantasy earlier this year.
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  He doesn't have a good win loss record.
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  I don't care about win losses. I think most of us don't at this
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  point. But his ER, as like 3.75 has a
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  pretty close to A1 strikeout per innings pitch.
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  I think it was something like 142 innings, 127 strikeouts.
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  I also I thought Justin Verlander was in the 300 win
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  club. I don't know why I thought he
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  had gotten there. I believe he has 265 wins, but
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  Justin Verlander still getting it done at 42.
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  I believe already he wants to pitch again next year also at
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  the age of 43. Then the other guy, 41, Aaron
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  Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, I know he was
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  hurt at first with The Jets, missed the whole year last year.
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  Everybody's saying Aaron Rodgers, you know, wasn't,
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  wasn't good. If you look at his numbers,
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  though, they're actually pretty good.
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  It's funny. And Aaron Rodgers has said this
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  before, where he goes, my bad years are other players good
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  years. So go and look that up.
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  Last year, his numbers were not that bad.
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  And now he's with the Steelers, but Verlander 42 and and Aaron
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  Rodgers 41. And then it made me think again
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  about my my dad back in the day. My dad's still with us.
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  But I remember when my dad would say, and I'm guessing he was in
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  his 40s, he would say how he always rooted for the old dudes,
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  like the old guys in sports, whether it was basketball,
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  somebody that was still hanging around when there were 40 or
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  above or, or baseball. Going back, we're probably
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  talking about Nolan Ryan. I think Nolan Ryan pitched till
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  he was what, 46? But I remember my dad always
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  saying how he rooted for the old guys, which at the time were
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  probably dudes right around his age, a little older, a little
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  younger. And it's funny because at the
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  time, let's say I'm 1517, whatever it is, and I'm thinking
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  of my dad kind of as older. He's in his 40s.
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  But then here I am, 43. I don't feel really that old at
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  all. Although if you told me when I
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  was younger, hey, you're 43, it feels a lot older than when you
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  get there. I know I'm kind of rambling
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  here, but it's just funny because now I'm looking for
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  athletes that are my age. And as a 43 year old, besides
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  Denny Hamlin, unless I miss somebody, unless I miss
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  somebody, there ain't nobody that's my age or older.
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  Still playing big time professional sports in the
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  United States. Verlander's one year younger and
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  Aaron Rodgers is 2 years younger.
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  So just made me think about all those things.
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  talking about the old dudes, the old dudes retiring, which makes
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  me feel old. Playton, Kershaw, TJ Oshi, and
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  then shout out to Justin Verlander, still getting it
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  done. Shout out to Aaron Rodgers.
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  I don't care if you don't like him.
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  I don't care if you don't like his politics.
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  If you're if you're my age, you still got to give the dude
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  credit. 41 and still out there playing in the National Football
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  League. There you go.
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  Peace out.