Good Knight? Good Luck!
Speaking of the Yankees. With a pitching staff beaten up by injuries -- the most recent being a base-running misadventure by Chien-Ming Wang -- New York has signed former Oriole Sidney Ponson, the occasionally benighted knight.
Ponson was last seen in the uniform of the Texas Rangers where, despite a 4-1 record and 3.88 ERA, he was released mainly because the honoree of the Dutch Royal House was a royal pain-in the-clubhouse
Ponson goes to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to prepare to pitch in about a week against the Mets.
I particularly like Yankees GM Brian Cashman's quote on picking up Ponson: "Hopefully, whatever happened in Texas stays in Texas."
This is Ponson's eighth Major League stop with six teams. He's been in Baltimore twice and this is his second tour-of-duty with the Yanks.
Comments
Yeah, Bill you have to wonder how many chances Sir Sid is going to get. He's catching up to Steve Howe in the chances department.
Actually, Ponson's numbers weren't bad in Texas and they don't exactly have the 70's Orioles starting rotation, so he must have really ticked somebody off. Not to mention that it's probably a pretty dysfunctional clubhouse already with hot-head Milton Bradley and guys like Hamilton(although he's apparently cleaned up his act so far).
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Terry,
The Rangers flat out said they were letting Ponson go because of attitude.
-- Bill O.
Posted by: TerryP | June 19, 2008 11:43 AM