October 20, 2003

Low moments in employment history
Posted by dwong@bostonworks.com">Dean Wong at 10:53 AM -

Blatant disclaimer: Hi. My name's Dean and I'm a Sox fan (All: "Hi, Dean, welcome to Soxaholics Anonymous") and I am in no way an apologist for Grady's appalling Game 7 decision. So please spare me the flames when I say that I find some merit in Globe Sports writer Michael Holley's assessment that calls for Grady's ouster may be jumping the shark.

By this I'm saying who among us -- who do our jobs and do them flawlessly, often beyond expectation 98.5 percent of the time -- can honesty say they never, ever made at least one embarassing or costly mistake on the job? We are human, ergo, we are designed specifically to make stupid decisions that result in disasterous consequences especially, when it counts the most.

The Globe's reporting that a decision on Grady's job won't happen until after the World Series.

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