Bobby Jenks: In Memoriam

the final out of the 2008 Black Out Game.

May non-White Sox-dom help you find the weightloss you were never able to find in Chicago.

I was attached to Bobby a couple of years ago – irrationally, when it was suggested we trade him at teh peak of his value, which just so happened to be when I didn’t want to give him up – but have seen the error of my ways and believe in the fungibility of human beings, to say nothing of relievers.

However, my favorite Jenks montage was him coming out of nowhere in 2005 and absolutely elecrifying everyone when he entered the last inning of any game. He had me jacked way up for all the right reasons. I’ll always buy you a Yoo Hoo, Bobby, for your contribution to the success of 2005. Thank you for a lifetime of memories squeezed into a few short months.

Runners up?:

Ozzie signaling to the bullpen in Game 1.

Curveball to end game 3 of the ALDS. It was a beaut.

Jumping up and down on the mound at the end of the blackout game.

He was a good closer, but his price was getting awfully steep.

Thanks for the memories. May the next guy to wear 45 be as memorable as the last two.

everytime you were on the mound and made me wish I had some pepto bismol. You gave up runs when our twam should have won. no more fighting at the buffet table for you. dueces

Ozzie summons the fat man by stretching his arms wide and then high and low. That is the picture perfect image in my mind of Mr. Jenks.

Summon the fat man! HWBM!

that being said, i’m glad i won’t have to hear P.O.D. anymore

good luck wherever you wind up bobby

Which holiday will we recognize saves with now? Chris(Sale)mas? Cinco de Sergio? Groundhog Thorndog Day?

Although Huff unknowingly exposed Bobby for why he wasn’t effective there. Also c’est la vie to his blonde beef curtains.

and all the times i had to drink away the bad…

see you in heaven you fat sob

I would also like to give honorable mention game 3 of the thunderdome series. Maybe the most excruciating loss ever, and Bobby was the one to blow it, but not before a hell of an effort retiring six straight batters – Castilla, Mauer, Morneau, Coddyer, Young and Harris. Not your fault, BBBJ. Not your fault that you and Thornton were all we had.

Happy Jenksgiving to one and all.

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Dear Mr. Jenks,

Thanks for all the good to great pitching you did in helping the Sox win the 2005 World Series, the 2008 Central Division, and many games in between.

I’d love to have you back on the team at a salary that fits your contributions, but we both know that won’t happen. Enjoy your new employer and keep in touch. Good luck!

Sincerely,

rhythm

“People make disgusting profits pretending to do noble things all the time, its called capitalism.”

Great stuff!

There will always be the memories, but the near-constant heart attacks over the past couple years will not be missed.

Now let’s get out there and spend ~9 million bucks!

I’m peeing my pants.

At US Cellular? Sounds like a good idea on the surface.

YEEEEESSSSS!!!

I START POSTING, WE START SIGNIN’ MUAH-FUCKAS. GET OUTTA MY WAY!!!!!!

i can’t believe this is happeningggggggggggg (strangely i said the same thing when i banged my first broad)

according to bernstein.

PAULIE AND DUNN BACK TO BACK! OMGAWD!!!!!

once i go white everything will be alright?

I can’t link it being at work, but it’s real. WE HAZ A DH

(Post coming soon……?)

The fond memories are too abundant to pick just one (that hasn’t already been mentioned)…
So I’ll just say my favorite, in general, was always the hammer to end the game.

you did a great job for the sox. i liked you much more at the beginning, and i’m not sure if it was related to your quitting drinking/finding god, but you really seemed to be getting pretty cranky lately. best of luck in the future, but i’m glad you’ll be moving on before you ended up on my list.

buehrleman

I believe there is a word for this kind of behavior, and that it ryhmes with “schmischmolar.”

Having said that: “HOLY SHIT, WE GOT ADAM DUNN, WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!”

cowley is on the score.

Sox got em, physical tomorrow. Also Cowley said Sox close to re-signing PK as well.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/white-sox-sign-adam-dunn/

Favorite Jenks moment was Game 1 of the World Series when he came into the game in the eigth to face Bagwell and struck him out with the soon to disappear 100 mph fastballs.

Shocked about Dunn, if they keep Konerko as well I may keel over from sox anticipation before April.

usurped on his own memorial thread.

but his failure to bail out last year’s flawed team does not diminish what he accomplished for us in his team on the South Side. My favorite Jenks story was GAme 163 in 2008. That morning Eric Karabel on the Baseball Today podcast predicted that the Twins would win the game and that Jenks would blow the save. Well, we know how that turned out. I wrote into the podcast right after the game, and Karabel, hats off to him, read my email on the next day’s show, which said among other things, sorry Eric, Jenks didn’t blow the save.

Good luck, Bobby. I wish you well.

I loved Ozzie coming out and calling for the “Big Boy.” That sort of captured the spirit of that entire year. Also, throwing the last pitch in the 2005 series makes him a big part of history.

I hope where ever he winds up next year that they have loose fitting uniforms and is not located in a warm climate.

I’m thinking he’d be a smash hit in Milwaukee. . .