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Closing Time: Bobby Jenks and alfredo sauce
Published 7/9/2008 by Scott Pianowski at Roto Arcade
I've never liked writing bios much, so let's keep this short and sweet. Hi, I'm Scott. I like 12-to-6 curveballs, anything in an alfredo sauce, chicks in glasses, point guards who look to pass first and Alexander Payne movies. I play Fantasy Sports, too. Here's some stuff from Tuesday night around the diamond that caught my eye: The other shoe finally dropped with Bobby Jenks and his wonky back; the White Sox will put him on the disabled list Wednesday. "We don't want to take a risk," Ozzie Guillen told the team's official site. "We made that decision, and we'll find out after the game [on Wednesday] who is coming up. It's been too many ...

Barrage of Injury News
Published 7/9/2008 by Fantasy Sports PT at The Disabled List Informer
Bobby Jenks is now on the DL through the All-Star break as a precautionary measure with what is being called "back soreness." The MRI and CT scans were both negative about the left Scapula, so this could be a very small, focal muscular strain of a segmental Thoracic trunk rotator, or a small strain to one of the periscapular muscles (lower trapezius, latissimus dorsi, rhomboids, etc.) - it’s hard to say with the limited information disclosed. Given the activities that hurt the area (left trunk rotation, Scapular depression and medial rotation), any one (or combination) of these muscles could be involved. In any event, this is a non-throwing arm injury, so ...