Clayton Kershaw Was Faxed His First MLB Contract

Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

Jomboy Media

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This week, Rose is joined by the greatest pitcher of the past two decades in Clayton Kershaw. We talk breakfast habits, reflect on his long MLB career, his 3000th strikeout, and discuss where his head is at when it comes to retirement. Tune in next Monday our interview with A's emerging star Lawrence Butler! Show best viewed on YouTube for more content! 0:00 Welcome back! 0:20 Clayton’s cereal addiction 1:40 Needing a fax machine on draft night 2:55 How Clayton got his call up 3:45 Debuting as a 20 year old 4:40 Facing Scherzer as rookies 6:07 What goes into the possibility of retiring? 8:10 Focusing on performing rather than retirement 9:55 3,000 strikeouts 11:05 Appreciating Ohtani as a pitcher 11:45 Other players will tell their kids they played with Kershaw 12:50 Is the season a failure without a World Series? 14:10 Old man beard maintenance 14:30 See you next time! Follow all of our content on https://jomboymedia.com JM Merch Store: https://shop.jomboymedia.com/ Featuring: Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers Hosted by: Chris Rose Edited by: Alex Graap #JMBaseball Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	We are back. It's another episode of dugout discussions with Chris Rose.
0:03.5	And before we get to today's special guests, we want to tell you a little bit about our new relationship at John Boy Media with Nike.
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0:17.0	I was super excited for today's guests because this is the ballpark he has called home since 2008.
0:23.6	Two World Series Championships, three Cy Youngs, and one MVP later.
0:28.6	We are still blessed to be able to watch Clayton Kershaw do his thing.
0:32.6	And now you can hear from him too.
0:35.6	True or false that you still eat the same meal for breakfast when you pitch as when Ellen told everybody six or seven years ago.
0:46.3	So I've kind of done a 180. I've changed a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. So now, what did Ellen say? Just eat cereal? I don't do that anymore. God dang it. I'm so disappointed. I've grown up a little bit. Yeah, I eat like eggs now. Yeah, but I do eat the same thing. Like, I eat two eggs and banana and toast because I'm not that hungry, but yeah, knock it out. But it was the whole Golden Grams.
1:12.3	Oh, yeah.
1:12.9	Really?
1:13.2	I cannot believe that into your 30s.
1:15.1	Yeah, I love Golden Grams. Is that what it was? Was that the go-to? Golden Gras are so good. God, thinking about that, I haven't had it in so long. It makes me, like, one of them again. I will tell you. I'm going to let you in a little secret. When I was 10, that was my favorite cereal because there was a cute girl on the commercial that looked like a girl that I had a crush on. Marketing works, huh? It really does. How did you pull that off on the road, by the way? Would you pack your own golden grants? Super challenging. Super challenging. And no, I think it ended up being like, spending like $15 for the little box of like
1:45.9	cereal they have for room service you know yeah but they like somewhere in Atlanta had
1:50.8	golden grams at the rents or something it probably wasn't always golden grams it probably wasn't
1:54.3	always golden grams no um when you got drafted in a 06 how did, it wasn't on MLV network?
2:03.4	No, it was still dial-up internet.
2:06.3	I think that was the last one.
2:08.4	It was like AOL.
2:10.5	So how do you find out you get drafted by the Dodgers?
2:12.8	I got IMD.
2:13.7	No, I'm just going to.
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