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South Side Sox: Bobby Jenks Cements His Place as White Sox Regular Most-Likely to be Traded this Off-Season
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog: Jenks, Guillen at odds over closer’s weight
Circling The Bases: Is Jenks talking his way out of Chicago?
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BATTLE OF BULGE: ''Bobby has to stay in shape if he wants to play for the White Sox. That goes with any.. http://bit.ly/7YXJJc 11/21/2009 |
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Must-read Jenks story ... OK, maybe not must, but READ IT http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/1896517,CST-SPT-sox21.article 11/21/2009 |
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Chicago Sun-Times >> Battle of the bulge http://bit.ly/5MMU2W 11/21/2009 |
Bobby Jenks Cements His Place as White Sox Regular Most-Likely to be Traded this Off-Season
South Side Sox —
... Free agency is 24 hours old, and the supposedly inactive White Sox are keeping things interesting. As you've no doubt heard by now, they're supposedly close to a bringing in Omar Vizquel to play a backup role, and now Joe Cowley has won the weekend with some juicy quotes from Bobby Jenks and Ozzie Guillen:
"Did I feel I was being picked on? No," Jenks said in a phone interview. "But I felt I was the easy scapegoat because I had struggled in the end with some nagging injuries. This organization, just like most in this ...
Jenks, Guillen at odds over closer’s weight
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Jenks, Guillen at odds over closer’s weight Wienersnitzel! image The right-hander believed the club—based on comments made by manager Ozzie Guillen—was being overly critical of his conditioning. ‘’Did I feel I was being picked on? No,’’ Jenks said in a phone interview. ‘’But I felt I was the easy scapegoat because I had struggled in the end with some nagging injuries. This organization, just like most in this game, tell you, ‘Come in, our door is open and tell us what’s on your mind.’ And when you do, they turn it around on you and make you feel bad. They’re playing on your own ...
Is Jenks talking his way out of Chicago?
Circling The Bases —
... He might be. During an interview with Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, Bobby Jenks was critical of the White Sox organization and manager Ozzie Guillen for comments about his weight and conditioning . ''Did I feel I was being picked on? No,'' Jenks said in a phone interview. ''But I felt I was the easy scapegoat because I had struggled in the end with some nagging injuries. This organization, just like most in this game, tell you, 'Come in, our door is open and tell us what's on your mind.' And when you do, they turn it around on you and make you feel bad. They're playing ...
"Faces In the Crowd" Brought To You By Valtrex [Wake Up Deadspin!]
Deadspin —
... you need to know to start your day. • Giants LB Antonio Pierce is out indefinitely with the dreaded "bulging disk" in his neck. "I had no idea that what happened a few weeks ago could keep me off the field. I didn't think it was that serious. [ESPN] • The Mike Florio/PFT Story as told to the NYT: "We've created a monster," he said, "and we have to keep feeding it." [NYT] • White Sox closer Bobby Jenks doesn't see why his fatness matters. [Chicago Sun-Times] •; Mighty Mite, Mike Lupica says the Knicks are being ...
Ozzie : Jenks Is A Victim Of Sizism (Who Should Lose A Few Pounds)
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... White Sox closer Bobby Jenks claims his season-ending calf injury occurred while covering first base. His employers insist it happened during pregame stretching. If I were Jenks, I’d figure the answer for 2010 to be “no more stretching”, but in the meantime, the Chicago tub of goo fireballer considers himself to be “an easy scapegoat.” To which skipper Ozzie Guillen seems to suggest, why not make it less easy? From the Sun-Times’ Joe Cowley (link swiped from Repoz and Baseball Think Factory) ...
Old news: On Vizquel and Jenks
Sox Machine —
... course, that’s assuming that Vizquel actually signs with the Sox this time. I don’t see why he wouldn’t — especially since he’ll have a manger that’ll still call him “kid,” even though said manager is just three years older than Vizquel. ******************************* It would be nice to say that Bobby Jenks either solidified his status as the offseason scapegoat or severely hampered his trade value. But as Nick Swisher showed us last offseason, there’s no reason it can’t be both. Jenks talked to Joe Cowley after the conditioning comments that Don Cooper made:”Did I feel I ...
Yelling About Bobby Jenks’ Weight Is Like Yelling About The Brightness Of The Sun
The 35th Street Review —
Another injury, another offseason, another externally-fueled non-dispute over Bobby Jenks’ girth:
”Bobby is always going to have the problem that when he doesn’t perform, fans think he’s hurt or out of shape,” Guillen said Friday. ”Bobby has to stay in shape if he wants to play for the White Sox.”
And, you know, you could make some perfectly reasonable assertions about the effects of a pitcher’s rotund figure on his long-term prospects, but in Jenks’ case every single one of them ...
D12: Honeymoon over for big Bobby Jenks and Ozzie Guillen?
Big League Stew —
... thinks he's being scapegoated after a season of injuries. Ozzie Guillen, meanwhile, thinks his portly pitcher "has to stay in shape if he wants to play for the White Sox." Remember when these two were baseball's odd couple? Sun-Times ...
