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According to Sox Prospects, Joe McEwing is officially retired.
…talk about your scrappy fan-favorite…
…best of luck, joe…
…though i only knew him through what i saw on television, i always got the impression he would make a good coach…i know David Wright was disappointed when super joe left the organization a few years ago, and i’ve heard similar comments from other young players who he took under his wing while in Houston and Boston…
…thanks to Asher for the link…
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I assume Tony Larussa (who was a huge fan of McEwing) would be first in line with a coaching offer.
…if fact La Russa used to keep a pair of McEwing’s spikes hanging in his office.
I just want to say that Joe is my son’s godfather and he is the greatest guy you will ever meet.
Joe was a great met and we should avoid Santana
Bring him back, put him in whatever minor league city he wants to sit back and relax in (I hear Port St. Lucie is nice in July), and activate him every time the Mets face a top 10 pitcher… hey, maybe Randy Johnson’s back will recover to the point where Super Joe can get some swings.
Or just let him pull a Ricky, coach the big league squad, and wait for his call-up.
Nobody had a bigger heart.
But I’d seriously hesitate letting this guy coach young kids, he had one of the fundamentally worst swings I’ve ever seen in my life and his between pitch routine was excruciating to watch.
Idk if you noticed but Wright adopted a shorter version of that routine in either ‘05 or ‘06
Say it ain’t so, Joe! Say it ain’t so!
It’s amazing that he somehow avoided being listed on the Mitchell report.
While he wasn’t on the Mitchell Report, he was definitely taking massive amounts of amphetamines.
watching joey mac man handle randy johnson was so entertaining. the big yunik used to get so heated on the mound it was hilarious. i remember in 2000 he pulled a HR down the LF line, and doubled into the LF corner in a game at shea.
Yes… his BA against Johnson was almost as high as Dae Sung Koo’s.
Many people ALSO forget in that game that Piazza crushed one of the biggest homers he ever had as a Met against Randy. Many people forget one of Piazza’s specialties was that he hit the great pitchers. His numbers against the above average pitchers of his generation that include Clemens, Glavine, Maddux, Johnson, Pedro, Pettite, Billy Wagner, Trevor Hoffman, Mussina are terrific. He didn’t hit Schilling or Smoltz great, but the others watch out. I would even include Hampton on that list. To me the great hitters are the ones who hit great pitching.
But that Randy Johnson homer was to me as spectacular as the shot he had against Ramiro Mendoza.
Piazza wasn’t too bad against Smoltz in game 6 of the ‘99 NLCS with a broken thumb… point taken though, I’ll always love #31.
the homerun off mendoza is my favorite bc of the bat flip which was incredibly uncharacteristic of mike but it was just such a moon shot i guess he couldnt help himself. im having trouble remembering the HR off teh yunik that you mentioned though i wish there was some video source i could refresh my memory with.
I guess I am the lone desenter.
I did not like “might-joe”. Sure he played a lot of positions, but never played any exceptionally well.
He could fill in, but you could also put gum on a hole in your shoe and that worked well also.
The final straw for me was when I heard through friends who claimed to know his wife (and hence him), that he was not a nice guy, and at some point in one of the down seasons, he was disgruntled and wanted out.
He should have been honored we let him take a roster spot.
But even without that I was never a fan of his.
hater
” . . . some friends who claimed to know his wife (and hence him) . . . ”
What a load.
Super Joe was renowned as one of the best clubhouse guys in his time… I have a hard time believing many Mets players/coaches would agree with that statement by some friends who claimed to know his wife.
I knew his landscaper…and his paperboy. I guess he tipped like crap
I met Super Joe out one night at a restaurant in Long Island. He was eating dinner with a few friends. He could not have been a nicer guy. He actually seemed reserved and shy and was surprised my friends and I even recognized him. He gladly signed autographs (while eating dinner) mind you and was happy to do so.
You’re not the lone dissenter… unless it was one of those rare games against a big name pitcher I cringed every time I saw “super joe” in the lineup. to paraphrase a line from Christmas Vacation – yeah he worked hard, but so do washing machines.
You have got to be kidding me….he was one of the last remaining players in the bigs to actually play for the love of the game!!!!!! And seeing as how I do know him, and not “friends of mine”, he’s one of the most genuine and nicest guys in the world. You should be honored that you even got a chance to watch him play. Besides, do you think that you would have been a better piece of “gum” to fix the whole in “your shoe”???? I seriously doubt it!!!!! Good luck Super Joe!!!! Bristol, PA still has your back 110%!!!!!!!!!!!
Whenever I hear McEwing’s name, I think of when my buddies and I had the Sunday pack in the loge section, and behind us sat these husband and wife who had an unhealthy obsession with McEwing. “Jooooooeeeeeeey!!!” they would scream like loons at the guy.
ONE TIME McEwing got a big hit after their chanting, and in response the clown remarked “See? It pays to be rude.”
I thought this twitchy mf’r was already retired…
He was a folk hero of sorts. I liked him, but isn’t calling him a “great Met” going a bit far?
Great Met? Really?
Greatest Met of all time.
Just edging out Dan Norman.
I drove out to Pawtucket over the summer to see Joe play for the Pawsox. He was the same ol’ Super Joe, just with a little less spring in his step.
This guy played every game like it was his last, and he was a hero of mine. I was hoping I’d get another shot to see him play this summer, but that won’t happen.
Good luck Joe.. Hopefully you get a coaching gig somewhere.
me too – it was fun to watch him do his thing in a minor league ballpark. I was right behind him in my Mets had screaming bring on the big unit when he had his at bats. of course the night I saw the pawsox beat the skanks farm team, was the night that Elsbury and Bucholz were called up and Bucholz pitched the no-no, so we had to settle for Super Joe. He was David Eckstein without the talent.
My dad is at Mets Fantasy Camp right now and Super Joe is one of the coaches (wearing number 47 no less). It makes me happy that he is still with the Mets organization in some way and hope it is the start of a great coaching tenure with the Mets.
When I met Bobby Valentine back in 2002, he mentioned that Joe was the first one to the stadium every day (at home or on the road) for some extra batting or fielding practice. Bobby said he would love a team full of “Joe’s” and he’d make a great coach one day.
u know they make this stuff up right? ur not stupid enuff to buy this type of talk are u?
Great moniker….love arrested development
HOF class of 2013!
i have a story about joe. he’s a bad drunk. one time at a bar he was hitting on my best friends sister who’s a hottie. he was acting like he was God’s gift to something (ballplayers/frat boys/whatever) and ofcourse she turned him down.
Who’s not a bad drunk among us?
The time has come. Hard not to like McEwing. A guy of limited talent and an ordinary physique who makes the majors through hard work and passion for the game. Mkes any fan hopeful that anything is possible.
As I hear this Roger Clemens saga play out, i am reminded of Joe McEwing. All I hear is that no one works harder than Clemens or Bonds (or you also hear about A-Rod when the whispers of him and steroids are mentioned). I just have to laugh, so many Americans have this naivete that the harder you work the more you will suceed, no matter what your natural talents are, therefore the best players must be the hardest workers. I think of a guy like McEwing, you can see it in the way he grinded it out on the field during a game, he took nothing for granted. Compare it to bonds lazy attitude in the OF and you have to know that this attitude exhists in their workouts too.
Joe played the game the right way.
He’s got my Hall of Fame vote.
Fire Willie. Hire Super Joe.
Good luck to Super Joe. Although he was a “scrappy fan favorite” and could play all those positions, I never got what I perceive now (especially now that he has retired and we all have a chance to reflect on his entire Met career) as an overexcitement by some Met fans about him. He could play pretty much all the positions and that was pretty cool. I don’t want to take his retirement day to get into why I don’t think he was that big of a deal, but I will say, with no disrespect meant to him, that when I hear about people being excited about Super Joe, it makes me think of low expectations – the Mets at a bad time. Al Weis was a scrappy guy who reminds me of a successful Mets period. I don’t mean to be a downer, but I pretty much have fairly little sentimental feelings about non-World Championship Met teams. Baseball is about getting rings and Super Joe never helped us get one and neither did Piazza, for that matter.
best of luck mighty joe!
You’re cadging an autograph in a casino and HE’S the scrub?!