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@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=6529767"); Saturday, January 15, 2005 A Fool's Paradise: Sidney Ponson Leaves Aruba I can't think of too many things that would be sweeter than being a professional baseball player, but one of them would definitely be being a professional baseball player and living in the Caribbean paradise of Aruba. Then again, if you believe Baltimore Orioles pitcher Sidney Ponson, maybe it's not so sweet at all. Ponson is an Aruba native, and was decorated as a knight of the Order of the Dutch Royal House for his success in baseball. Ironically, it is Ponson's celebrity status that led him to allegedly punch a local judge at an Aruba beach party on Christmas Day, merely 3 weeks ago. The hefty, oft malcontented pitcher is now vowing to leave Aruba permanently, citing an inability to tolerate the attention, both positive and negative, that he receives on the island. Truthfully, I want to rip Ponson, who reported to training camp before the 2004 season at an unbelievable 266 pounds. However, spending a week in an Aruban prison as his holiday season wind down, would make just about anybody want to get the heck out of Dodge.

42. Outside Pitch Cover Story: Sidney Ponson Learns To Eat Smarter As His Pitching C sidney ponson is eating a plate of pasta scampi at Amici s in Little Italy. “It was my dream to play baseball, and I m doing it now,” says ponson. http://www.outsidepitch.com/cover/0007ponson.html

Sidney Ponson Learns to Eat Smarter as His Pitching Career Takes Shape By Louis Berney Sidney Ponson is eating a plate of pasta scampi at Amici's in Little Italy. This is his afternoon restaurant, the place he prefers to chow down before night games. He likes to go to Ruth's Chris for dinner when the Orioles play afternoon games, and occasionally the right-hander will scoot off to a Federal Hill diner if he's still hungry following a night game. When it's his turn to pitch, Little Italy is where Ponson will go for his pre-game meal. Ponson knows a bit about nutrition. Before he reached the big leagues, but after the Orioles already had recognized him as a major league talent, the club sent him to Duke University in the office season. The Orioles knew that he had an invaluable right arm. They wanted to be sure he used it more to throw a baseball than to stuff his ample body with heavy fats. Duke ran a nutrition program for athletes who tend, let's say, to be a little too eager at the dinner table and a little too gifted in girth. Ponson came back from Duke full of good habits.

43. Baseball Musings: Swinging Sidney sidney ponson was involved in another fight. It seems a drunk would not let Sirsidney alone baseball Musings is holding a pledge drive during March. http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/008655.php

Main March 24, 2005 Swinging Sidney Sidney Ponson was involved in another fight . It seems a drunk would not let Sir Sidney alone: This time, Ponson was eating dinner with his girlfriend when a man approached and essentially challenged him to a fight, according to the pitcher and his agent. Ponson said the man eventually began to push the pitcher in the chest. "It kept going on and on; he was nagging me forever," Ponson said. "It was the worst I'd ever heard. Then he touched me, and I had to draw a line. ... You clearly could see the guy was intoxicated. It was one of those things, you can't do nothing about it." Praver said Ponson attempted to ignore the man, but the verbal abuse escalated to a physical confrontation. "It was one of those things, people are going to find out who I am, try to push my buttons. ... I held back as much as I could," Ponson said. I wonder why the resturant didn't step in and remove the man? Also, I suppose you have to be pretty drunk to think you can take on a professional athlete in a fight, especially one as big as Ponson. Baseball Musings is holding a pledge drive during March.

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Main July 28, 2005 Ponson Out Early Sidney Ponson came out of the game against the Rangers in the third innng. He was pitching well. Did anyone see the game, and was he hurt or might he have been traded? Update : My source in the industry tells me Ponson was hit in his pitching hand. Posted by David Pinto at 08:25 PM Pitchers TrackBack (0) Comments Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments: Navigation Home About the Author Dedication Baseball Musings Radio Show ... Terms of Service Sponsors MLB Baseball Tickets Online Boston Red Sox Tickets New York Yankees Tickets Baltimore Orioles Tickets ... Onlineseats.com is your #1 Source for Cubs Tickets Red Sox Tickets Yankees Tickets Giants Tickets ... Nationals Tickets and All MLB Tickets Buy all your MLB Tickets Orioles Tickets Yankees Tickets Baltimore Orioles Tickets ... Red Sox Tickets and Spamalot Tickets and Concert Tickets From The Ticket Specialists Baseball Tickets Cleveland Indians Tickets Red Sox Tickets ... World Series Tickets Up to 30% off on MLB Baseball Tickets Boston Red Sox Tickets New York Yankees Tickets Baltimore Orioles Tickets ... San Diego Padres Tickets Visit Busch Stadium - Buy St. Louis Cardinal tickets and other baseball tickets for the Cubs Baseball Tickets Ticket Broker Red Sox Tickets World Series Tickets ... Baltimore Orioles Tickets Calendar September 2005 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Recent Entries Mention in the Globe Games of the Day ESPN.com Losing Ground

45. The Orioles Warehouse: Will The Real, Slimmer Sidney Please Stand Up? sidney ponson has made fourteen starts so far in 2004 (through June 13) (Team and league averages as of June 16, 2004, from the baseball Prospectus . http://www.oobleck.com/orioles/archives/001860.html

The Orioles Warehouse Your independent source for Orioles news, analysis, transactions, stats, history, and commentary Main June 16, 2004 Will the real, slimmer Sidney please stand up? Head over to Michael Wolverton's Support-Neutral starter rankings at the Baseball Prospectus site and at the top of the " Flakiest ML Starters " rankings, you will find a name familiar to Orioles fans: Flakiest 10 ML Starters (ranked by variance of SNVA): (7 starts minimum) Pitcher Team APW SNVA SNVA Var. Ponson,S BAL -2.1 -1.6 0.088 Hampton,M ATL -0.8 -0.4 0.081 Valdez,I SDP -0.5 -0.6 0.079 Estes,S COL -0.5 -0.4 0.079 Willis,D FLA 0.6 0.8 0.077 Dickey,R TEX -1.1 -0.8 0.077 Pineiro,J SEA -0.4 -0.4 0.076 Ainsworth,K BAL -1.7 -1.2 0.075 Gobble,J KCR -0.5 -0.2 0.075 Lackey,J ANA -0.8 -0.4 0.074 (as of June 14, 2004) Less mathematically versed readers may want to know what "variance of SNVA (Support-Neutral Value Added)" is. Essentially, a high SNVA variance means that a pitcher has had wide swings in the quality of his starts. And sure enough, a look at Sidney Ponson's game log indicates that among his fourteen starts this season, he has had four quality starts (at least six innings pitched with at most three earned runs allowed) but also seven starts in which he has allowed six earned runs or more.

46. Ponson Emerges As Key To Deal South Florida Sun-Sentinel Barry Praver, ponson s agent, said Neither sidney nor I have been According toone baseball executive, the Marlins might even consider keeping ponson. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/baseball/marlins/sfl-marnotes23jul23,0,238397

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49. The Baltimore Chop: Sidney Must Go Archives Ever wonder how bad sidney ponson s contract really is? pitching long reliefor in the minors those are the things that rarely happen in baseball. http://www.all-baseball.com/chop/archives/020018.html

all-baseball.com , part of the most valuable network , presents: The Baltimore Chop Where Jeffrey Maier is still a jerk, and the Oriole Way reigns. most valuable all-baseball cub reporter transaction guy ... baltimore chop September 10, 2005 Sidney Must Go by Joseph Jackson Ever wonder how bad contract really is? Suddenly, Phil Nevin paid ). He currently has a 6.12 ERA. The Yankees are finding guys on their doorstep that are pitching better than that (note: I am in no way, shape, or form advocating the signing of Hideo Nomo Angelos has always found eating contracts hard to swallow. This is one he should consider choking back. Posted on Aug 6, 2005 at 8:07 PM Comments It's not just that I can't agree more. It's that there's no possible way on Earth NOT to agree with this. I said Ponson was worthless and should be removed from the team BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY a while back. Check it out.. http://orioles.mostvaluablenetwork.com/index.php?p=185 What shocks the hell out of me is that he's pitched like the 8th most innings as an Oriole all time or something like that. He's had ONE winning season in his entire career, and even that season was nothing to write home about. Why in the name of all things holy has he been allowed to acrue the 8th most innings of any Orioles? I mean, do we have bobbleheads running the team? Don't bother trading him. Just find a way to negate his contract due to all teh legal trouble he's been in. There HAS to be a way. If not, pay him his $10 million to just go away. The money is better spent to keep him out of the game than it is to pitch him.

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a Sports Handicapping Community The Fox Den Forum Last Message Next Message Author Message sportpunter Registered: Jun 2005 Posts: 12 CrDog Baseball Picks Had a shocking day yesterday with from 4 picks: anyway...still well up: Not the best of days. wins from 4 bets yesterday. $703.23 was bet for a loss of $703.23 Total results this year stands at 11 wins from 24 bets. Total bet: $3583.75 - Total Profit: $26.84 - Total ROI: 0.7% Bets for the next day: COL d. PIT (FRANCIS,JEFF d. DUKE,ZACH) @ +160 for $134.82 SEA d. TOR (PINEIRO,JOEL d. TOWERS,JOSH) @ +107 for $63.88 BOS d. CHW (CLEMENT,MATT d. BUEHRLE,MARK) @ +118 for $81.53 NYY d. ANA (JOHNSON,RANDY d. COLON,BARTOLO) @ -104 for $175.59 Yanks are hot and Randy Johnson starting as a pick em vs the Angels, something looks wrong with this line. Granted RJ has been hit a little this year, but his Ks are still there and he isnt walking anybody so might be a bit of bad luck, take the Yanks. July 21st, 2005 08:01 AM r.a. Registered: May 2003 Posts: 371 Are you affiliated with Sportpunter or are you just stealing the picks from their website?

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52. Individual Pitching Stats Major League baseball Graphs for American League and National League Teams. 32, ponson,sidney, SF, 3.75, 0.57, 0.715, 216.0, 13 http://www.baseballgraphs.com/winshares/nlpitch.html

Major League Baseball Graphs The Dirty Details Baseball Graphs Home 2003 Win Shares 2003 National League Pitching Stats This is a list of all National League pitchers, ranked by Earned Runs Saved Above Average (ERSAA). ERSAA is a measure of how many runs the pitcher saved, given the number of innings he pitched, relative to the league. It's computed this way: League ERA minus pitcher ERA times innings pitched divided by nine, plus an adjustment for the home park. Lee Sinins uses the same statistic in his weekly stats report, only I believe he computes total runs saved, not just earned runs saved. I've supplied other rate stats, to give a bit more insight. In particular, I've included each pitcher's ERA and Innings pitched, as well as his FIP and associated DER. These are the exact same stats I use in the graphs, and they are defined in detail on the Details page . These two stats, by the way, seem to have about an equal impact on ERA, and they account for about 80% of ERA differences between pitchers. The rate stats are not adjusted for home park. The underlying source for this data is Doug . The home park adjustment comes from Patriot These stats are sortable. Click on the top of the column to sort by that item.

53. Sidney Ponson - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia sidney Alton ponson (born November 2, 1976 in Noord, Aruba) is a Major Leaguebaseball pitcher baseballReference.com - career statistics and analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Ponson

Sidney Ponson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sir Sidney Alton Ponson (born November 2 in Noord Aruba ) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who has played most of his career with the Baltimore Orioles . When he made his debut for the Orioles in , he became the third player from Aruba to play in the major leagues. Ponson attended Maria College in Aruba. He was picked up by the Orioles as an amateur in . Except for a brief stint for the San Francisco Giants , he has spent his entire career in Baltimore. After the 2003 season, he was made a knight by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands . (Aruba is a colony of the Netherlands.) This has earned him the nickname "Sir Sidney". Ponson has acquired a reputation for being inconsistent, especially in relation to decision games. He has a strong fastball and a decent slider. He has also had problems with his weight over the last few years. In 2003, he went 14-6 with a 3.77 ERA for the Orioles. Because Baltimore was not in contention for a playoff spot and Ponson was in the last year of his contract, the Orioles traded Ponson to the San Fransisco Giants at the trading deadline for two Giants prospects ( Kurt Ainsworth and Damian Moss ). At the end of the 2003 season, Ponson re-signed with the Orioles for a 3 year, 22.5 million dollar contract.

54. Baltimore Orioles @ Scout.com Posts 7 (7/11/05 81334 pm), Re My cousin goes out with sidney ponson Select a Forum, Major League baseball, baseball Rumors, Business of baseball http://mb3.scout.com/fbaltimoreoriolesfrm5.showMessage?topicID=83.topic

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56. Detroit Free Press: Baseball that would have sent him to the Orioles for righthander sidney ponson. baseball is as good as ever. Sure, there have been changes good and bad. http://www.freep.com/index/baseball.htm

new COOLjsMenu("test",MENU_ITEMS); Tigers MLB.com Minor League Baseball USA Today ... Bookstore Baseball September 15, 2005 AROUND THE HORN: ESPN signs up for eight years NATIONAL LEAGUE: Burroughs' hit saves San Diego AMERICAN LEAGUE: Royals' 3-run 9th beats White Sox, 10-9 September 14, 2005 AROUND THE HORN: Prospect Young says Rays cheap AMERICAN LEAGUE: Broussard's pair trumps A's; Angels lose again NATIONAL LEAGUE: Marlins top Astros again; Phils win September 13, 2005 AROUND THE HORN: M's catcher Wilson retires NATIONAL LEAGUE: Willis' HR, 21st win put Marlins on top Bonds barely misses homer in first at-bat AMERICAN LEAGUE: A's win, 2-0, gain on Tribe and Angels September 12, 2005 AMERICAN LEAGUE: Johnson steps up for Yanks, 1-0 NATIONAL LEAGUE: Phillies close gap on Astros, Marlins AROUND THE HORN: Bonds back today; he'll start in left Wild card September 10, 2005 AROUND THE HORN: Gardenhire, Lohse make up AMERICAN LEAGUE: Yankees drop Bosox in opener NATIONAL LEAGUE: Rocket ripped; Phils gain September 9, 2005 AROUND THE HORN: Tirade may nix Lohse's Monday start vs. Tigers

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