Comments on: News: Super Joe Finally Retires

By: sallystar

sallystar — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:57:47 +0000

I just want to say that Joe is my son’s godfather and he is the greatest guy you will ever meet.

By: rybell2209

rybell2209 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:40:20 +0000

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%!!!!!!!!!!!

By: mr_met

mr_met — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:10:22 +0000

best of luck mighty joe!

By: cver

cver — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:05:25 +0000

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.

By: gameball

gameball — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:51:52 +0000

You’re cadging an autograph in a casino and HE’S the scrub?!

By: TheCommish

TheCommish — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:51:43 +0000

Fire Willie. Hire Super Joe.

By: gameball

gameball — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:48:31 +0000

Greatest Met of all time.

Just edging out Dan Norman.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:42:30 +0000

He’s got my Hall of Fame vote.

By: Mike Vail

Mike Vail — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:13:46 +0000

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.

By: yubbajr

yubbajr — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:52:45 +0000

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.