I didnt think the article painted him in a bad light at all. I think that was who Bobby was at the time. I thought the article was actually a GREAT read and loved it when i read it.

 

Thought the same thing. Liked the article so much I read it again as soon as I was done with it. I think he even wrote that he thought Jenks was a good kid, just misunderstood.

I really like Bobby. It's easy to take closers for granted. He's been great.

I read the article in SI because I thought it was interesting, I didn't even know Jenks would be in it.

 

He didn't "rip" Jenks at all. In fact, Jenks was one of the more likeable characters in the story (And, yes, they are characters. Embellishment happens in all stories like this, by necessity).

 

They pretty certainly met. He explains it in the article. They met in extended spring training and never spoke again. He says that. No need to disparage the writer for writing innocuous comments and making Jenks seem like an okay guy.

 

If the book is anything like the article, I'll be picking it up.

anyone else thought this was Brandon McCarthy at first lol

Reading what people here are saying about the author, I guess y'all don't read any biographies, or really any non-fiction.

anyone else thought this was Brandon McCarthy at first lol

 

Bobby would slather Bmac in BBQ sauce and eat him.

Bobby would slather Bmac in BBQ sauce and eat him.

What an image!

 

/pounding forehead

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I didnt think the article painted him in a bad light at all. I think that was who Bobby was at the time. I thought the article was actually a GREAT read and loved it when i read it.

 

Exactly right

 

dude looks like a fraud anyway:

 

...statistics from that season, transaction listings and interviews with his former teammates indicate that many portions of the book are incorrect, embellished or impossible.

 

Several times in the book, which he devotes mostly to the antics of libidinous teammates and his manic manager, Tom Kotchman, McCarthy directly quotes people stating incorrect facts about their own lives and tells detailed (and mostly unflattering) stories about teammates who were in fact not on his team at the time. The book’s more outrageous scenes could not be independently corroborated or disproved; several teammates who were present said in interviews that they were exaggerated or simply untrue.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/sports/b...&ref=sports

Some more details from Deadspin

 

It is supposedly a rollicking tale of racist, misogynist, mentally unbalanced steroid freaks driving around in a bus and wreaking havoc wherever they go. However, many of the men who became characters in the book are coming forward now to say that their insane tales of debauchery simply aren't true. (Sample anecdote: the book accuses pitcher Joe Saunders of making fun of disabled children. Classy.)

 

But the real problem with (allegedly!) faking a baseball memoir is that box scores and transactions logs are way more accurate than McCarthy's personal notebooks. So if you're going to say, for example, that your manager ordered a pitcher to hit an opposing player with a pitch, you should probably make sure that someone actually got hit with a pitch in the games you're mentioning. (They didn't.) Or when you accuse a teammate of threatening to kill Larry King's son, make sure he was actually on the team when you say he was. (He wasn't.)