After two years, 188 regular season wins, and a trip to the American League Championship Series, the Red Sox have parted ways with Grady Little. Are the Sox making the right move? Who should get his job?

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Grady little fired....thank God!!

dean, dracut

Yse it was the wrong decision not to take out Pedro,but little should not be fired. He did a pretty good job,considering the bullpen didn't come through until August. If all managers were fired for one bad move,nobody would have a job. Besides the players really like him. Look at the Phillies they hate Larry Bowa and they fell flat the last month but they will still keep him. Keep Grady

John, Ardmore Pa.

Grady should have been brought back. He kept that team together. It was only his second year as a major league manager and I think he learned alot and will be a great manager. Hopefully we will get an experienced manager, my vote is for Mike Hargrove, he did a great job with the O's.

Kevin , Baltimore MD

How about Bill Parcells as Grady's replacement?

Richard, Southborough

they need to hire a name manager my pick would be Jim Leyland i think he would be a great choice for manager or try to get Tony Pena away from KC

stephen , peoria arizona

Of course, they should fire him, Zimmer is available. Geez. Give the job to one of the Globe sports reporters. Then, they can write about what a great job they did, and it wasn't their fault the team lost. In all truth, I feel the entire Boston media are more to blame for the team's failure than the team itself (or the manager).

David , Westfield, MA

I think anybody who has played the game of baseball knows it is not the manager who wins or loses games its the players. Grady made some bad moves but in the end it was the players who lost the series. Nomar had 2 hits, Bill Mueler was awful David Ortiz was nowhere to be found and the list goes on and on. There were a few guys who came to play Trot , Todd and the bullpen but other than that no one showed up. I guess Boston needs a scape goat , its just to bad.

John, Abington

No single player wins or loses a ballgame, but rather it is the sum total of all of the successful plays and mistakes commited by ALL of the members of the team that add up to a win or a loss. To punish any one player for a single error (no matter how pivotal it may turn out to be) is foolish, unjust and detrimental to the spirit of the game. Boston's management is showing their true colors (not to mention moral fiber and backbone) by caving in to the demands of the spiteful polloi of Fenway who need a whipping boy on whom they can spew their bilious, bitter disappointment. Little is a decent manager who helped to get the time to the gates of the World Series, but his head will have to roll to keep the masses coming back to Fenway next spring. Whatever happened to character and class?

Seppe , Somerville, MA

From a business point of view the Red Sox made the right decision. It was clear that Grady Little's judgement was very questionable as to tactical game decision making, and that he was not aligned with upper management principles and beliefs. The no decision in game 7 was so egregious and costly in terms of revenues /profits to the Red Sox, that alone could have been a basis to go in a different direction

John , Andover

If the Red Sox were to be ousting John McNamara istead of Grady Little today and had to search for a new manager, who would they choose? Probably Grady Little. If there is a perfect manager out there, they become quite imperfect in the sunlight of the Boston media. Fregosi, Hoffman, Bochy, Manuel- I wouldn't take any of these guys over Little- even with him Forrest Gump tendancies and indecision. Little was the first guy in years to get the clubhouse straight- and now the walls are going to be built back up. Theo, Larry, John- you will regret this decision-

John S. , Herndon, Virginia