So reads an old apron owned by my mother-in-law, but it should become baseball's motto with so many aging stars prolonging their careers and fewer and fewer young stars being marketed to the masses. Meanwhile, whenever I turn on ESPN I get football updates even though the Super Bowl was four months ago and the regular season will not start for another three. Baseball highlights are fewer and farther in between all the time, and my kids never get to see the sport since it doesn't come on until after they go to sleep.

But enough of my yakking. Let's boogie!

With yesterday's pitchers' duel between forty-year-old lefties Jamie Moyer and Tom Glavine, neither of whom sadly figured in the eleventh-inning, 4-2 Phils' win, I noticed a growing trend of forty-year-old starters facing off at a record pace. The "record" for oldest left-handed starters has been broken three times this season, once when David Wells and Randy Johnson faced off and twice when Johnson faced Jamie Moyer, and there is still time for another combination of these three to break the record again in 2007.

Prior to 2007 there were just 33 games in record baseball history in which two 40-year-olds faced off. There have been nine so far in 2007, we have two-thirds of the season to go, and quadragenarians Kenny Rogers and Roger Clemens have yet to pitch so far this year. During 2007 the number of 40-year-old faceoffs could easily be doubled.

The number of previous 40-year-old lefty faceoffs has already been exceeded in 2007. Coming into this season, there were just three games in baseball history in which two left-handed forty-year-old pitchers started. So far in 2007, there have been five:

There are already more 40-year-old starting pitchers, ten, in 2007 than any other year in baseball history:

And keep in mind that Roger Clemens' season is just starting and Kenny Rogers has been injured all year and just threw a simulated game yesterday, so there could be 12 starters by the end of the year:

This decade is on a pace to blow away the "record" for most seasons by forty-year-old starting pitchers in a decade even if Roger Clemens chooses to live in semiretirement: