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Ponson and trouble go hand in glove: if Ponson weren't being paid $7.5 million per year to win baseball games, you'd love to have him as a drinking buddy.(Baseball)(Sidney Ponson)
There's trouble on the beach in Aruba. There's trouble at the bottom of a bottle. There's trouble in the heart of that drunken patron staring wild-eyed from the other side of the restaurant. Trouble, trouble, trouble. And lo and behold, wherever it lurks, trouble always seems to find Sidney Ponson.
If only it weren't so. Trouble-free, Ponson might be the Orioles' No. 1 starter this season. He might have been a 20-game winner already. He might be a cult hero, a righthanded David Wells, a free spirit who can crack jokes in four languages and miss bats with four pitches.
But something keeps chasing him and catching him: trouble.
All but handed the ...
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