Large pitchers may come and large pitchers may go, and never change your team's ERA.

Sidney Ponson has been DFA'd according to Matthew Leach. Ponson was reasonably effective last night, and while the walks, the hit batsman and the runners Josh Kinney stranded tend to make me think it was flukey, the big guy left on a positive note. There's something tragic or epic -- or maybe noble's the right word for Sir Sid -- about a man getting the job done in front of 40,000 people when he knows he's about to be canned.

I suppose he's a bit of a victim of circumstance, that if the rest of the pitching staff had done what it was supposed to do, or at least been within shouting distance of where it was supposed to be, Sid would've been given a longer leash. Or for that matter, if the Cardinals were in last place, then maybe the pressure isn't there. Still this was a long shot, and I hope everybody saw it coming in, so it's a little easier as it all goes out.