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 zknower 11 comments 0 recs |

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Lame

I wanted a smackdown!

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by Stacey on Dec 19, 2008 8:30 AM EST reply actions

Wow

No judges were punched!

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by exitfare on Dec 19, 2008 5:29 PM EST reply actions

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?

by sickuvitall on Dec 20, 2008 12:12 AM EST reply actions

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 bet he got almost all of it

by pipkin on Dec 20, 2008 9:28 AM EST 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

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.

by zknower on Dec 20, 2008 2:35 PM EST up reply actions

or

“conduct unbecoming of a human”

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by BPinOK on Dec 20, 2008 4:08 PM EST up reply actions

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.

by zknower on Dec 20, 2008 2:36 PM EST up reply actions

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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by duck on Dec 20, 2008 4:57 PM EST up reply actions