O's, Ponson settle without arbitration
Fat Sid and the Orioles avoided arbitration and settled their three-year dispute today. Sir Tubby had been seeking $11.2M in uncollected salary. Terms were not released.
about 3 years ago
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Wow
No judges were punched!
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I hear he accepted
5 bucks and a box of Swiss Rolls.
WHAT ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak english in WHAT?
I think you read it wrong
I think it was 5 boxes of Swiss Rolls and a buck. =)
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by Gorilla Bird on Dec 20, 2008 1:50 AM EST up reply actions
I am out of touch with the situation.
Can anyone elaborate on why we are still involved in any way with the round mound of Arubian pound (cake)??
WHAT ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak english in WHAT?
by sickuvitall on Dec 20, 2008 12:16 PM EST up reply actions
three years ago,
we terminated his contract, on which we owed something like $10M, for “conduct unbecoming of a player” or something like that. Sidney had been arrested three times that year, and the Orioles were sick of the off-field antics (he also was stinking it up as a pitcher).
Ponson filed a grievance with the players’ association to recover the entire salary. The grievance was postponed over and over and then was scheduled for arbitration. This settlement that avoided that arbitration.
I sincerely doubt it.
I think the Orioles had a very strong case. But since arb meant all-or-nothing for both parties, it was in the interests of both to settle. I’m betting they met somewhere in the middle or below it, since Sidney has had a few different contracts since then.
I'm betting MLBPA pushed for a settlement
the LAST thing the wanted was an arbitrer (sp?) to rule that a club had a right to do this. So I’m betting the union lawyers told Fat Sid to take whatever PGA offered to make sure there was no chance of a arb dude saying a MLB team could terminate a contract for any cause.
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Is Ponson signed by anyone for this year?
I have to say, it’s some pretty good comedy that the Yankees keep thinking of him as a solution.
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