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"Super" Joe Charboneau -- remember him? -- apparently hasn't changed a bit.Charboneau, the zany 1980 Rookie of the Year with the Cleveland Indians, may lose his job with the city of North Ridgeville, Ohio, in the wake of a bar fight earlier this month, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Friday.
The 53-year-old Charboneau, who was known for his wild antics in his younger years, was contracted to run the baseball and softball programs for the city's recreation department in 2008 and 2009. His involvement in the bar fight has left his future with the city up the air, the newspaper said.
North Ridgeville's mayor, David Gillock, told the Plain Dealer that the city will wait for the police report that details the fight before making a decision on Charboneau's job. The newspaper could not reach the former major-leaguer for comment.
It did, however, speak with North Ridgeville Police Captain Allan Dent, who did not offer any details about the fight. He would not even acknowledge to the Plain Dealer that it was Charboneau who was involved in the fracas at the local watering hole, Poor Richard's.
"We hear all kinds of things about the fight, everyone has a different story," Dent told the newspaper. "We're still trying to get to the bottom of it."
It seems as if it instead will be Poor Joe -- Charboneau, that is -- if Mayor Gillock deems his actions inappropriate for those of a community leader. Though, the mayor suggested to the newspaper that he is willing to give Charboneau a fair shake.
"I want to know who was involved, what it was about and what happened," the mayor said in the report. "If we're talking about a couple good old boys getting into a shoving match, that's one thing. But we need to know the details."
A shoving match at a bar between two good old boys is normally fueled by one of two things -- beer (bottles of which Charboneau famously used to open with his eye socket) or hard liquor (Charboneau's alleged anesthesia when performing his own dental work during his playing career).
Maybe, it was a harmless tussle. Or maybe it was some barroom bridge work gone wrong (Yes, this is wild speculation).
Either way, Charboneau -- whose career lasted just three years thanks to a debilitating back injury -- has been out of our lives for far too long. I'm just glad he's back.
And like the mayor, I can't wait for the details.
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