NY Post

MOOSIC, Pa. - Sidney Ponson can be big trouble for opposing hitters and an even bigger pain in the backside for his own team.

That is the unofficial scouting report on the 31-year-old right-hander as he prepares to join the Yankees for maybe the biggest start of his career, against the Mets in Friday's split doubleheader.

Ponson says he hasn't been told which game he'll pitch, but is thankful for at least one more major league opportunity after a messy divorce from the Rangers .

"I'm just going to be low key," Ponson told The Post yesterday after a workout with the Yankees' Triple-A team at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. "I told [general manager] Brian Cashman that he doesn't have to worry about me. He's not going to hear nothing about me. I'll be a ghost if possible."

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Basically, he says the following:

1)Nothing happened at the hotel bar in St. Petersburg.

2)He never disrespected his teammates.

3)He and Ron Washington did not see eye to eye.

I find it hard to believe myself, considering that this is his standard response to getting in trouble, it's never his fault.