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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i'm wondering right now whoare more "dumb", yankee or red sox fans...little must go and ,now, torre did not make the right moves....let's get rid of nomar,giambi,pedro,mueller,posada,millar,burkett,etc,etc.....and let's not forget the manchild.....these are the "employees" who did not get the job done,not grady or joe''''

bill, bristol,ct

Remy for manager!!!

brian, west hartford

Meet the new bosses, same as the old boss. The only thing that is more screwed up than firing Grady Little in the first place, is doing it right now. Way to show your hand to the Yankees. For all intensive purposes, Joe Torre may be gone from NY. But now the Boss wouldn't think of firing him with Boston manager-less. Hope we're happy with another member of the old boy network. Change for the sake of Change. It hasn't worked for over 80 years. Why do they think it would work now? You want a suggestion for a new manager - how about Jason Varitek? Otherwise, who cares? Stupid Red Sox. Fans scream. They jump. That is why we will be playing second fiddle for the rest of our lives to the team that does things right.

TL, Los Angeles, CA

Way to go Boston...The curse of the Bambino has nothing to do with the Bambino, rather, everything to do with not having any confidence in the people that have done right by the city or the organization. Ironically, it all started with a lack of confidence in the Bambino...and it continues. From now on, you deserve what you get.

Webby, Hartford

I am deeply ensconced in late middle age and have seen many Red Sox managers come and go since I was a kid in New Hampshire. And recently I've had the opportunity to watch Grady Little first hand at press conferences at Fenway. From reading the Globe's coverage since spring training and watching Grady first-hand briefly, it seems to me that he is an old-time baseball lifer, who got very lucky this year: players having career years, and "chemistry" that seemed to work until the 11th hour. But I couldn't escape the feeling that Red Sox management was uneasy with him for months--in their minds, they wanted to let him go; in their hearts they could not until that night at Yankee Stadium. That one non-move merged the hearts and the minds and management will not give it a second thought.

David, NYC

I like the management's decision to remove a guy that proved time and time again he wasn't suited for such a high profile city as Boston. The players loved him, that's great. Did they win the World Series for him? Of course they tried, but no, they did not. They were unable to, because Little did not have the best man on the mound come crunchtime in the Bronx. Over the couse of the season there were countless headaches about the bullpen, but much of the blame has to go to a manager that doesn't know who he should go to in a certain situation. I like the idea of Jerry Remy as a replacement, and I'm sick of the talk revolving around Bobby Valentine. Just because he's made himself popular on Baseball Tonight doesn't make him a baseball god. There were as many complaints of him in New York as there were praises. The only other guy I see is Jimmy Leyland, who's proved he can lead a team all the way. He's got a strong presence in the dugout, he knows how to handle players, and Jack McKeon's already proved that old guys can still manage. Whoever gets the job, let's hope Red Sox nation supports the decision. The last thing this team needs is a fan base that's living in the past.

Pete, Surry, ME

I grew up in Boston and moved to New Jersey two years ago. This is not the first idotic move on behalf of the Red Sox. The first the comes to mind is "Clemens is in the twilight of his career." Well three more Cy Young awards and two World Series rings later he is well on his way to Cooperstown. The only move the Sox ever made to help them was dumping injury prone Mo Vaughn. Grady Little may not have been a situational genius, but he did have two seasons with more than 90 wins. The Sox should also be lucky they even got to the ALCS. How soon you all forogt if it was not for Miguel Tejada's stupidity of not running home before looking for the interference call the series would have been over. How is to say if the Pedro did come out a little earlier that the bullpen would not have blown it. Histoically thought the this years playoffs the Yankees did not heat up until the late innings. Either waty I think those runs were going to be scored. I also think you Sox fans are in denial the Pedro is not the pitcher he once was. He is still a great pitcher but not the invinvicable force iof a few years ago. It is time for the Sox regime to stop hiding behind their insecurites of winning a championship, and actually notice a good thing when they see it. Going by the ethics of most of you on this board, Nomar should be traded due to his lack of offense.

Eric, New Jersey

Another tragic happening for our beloved Red Sox! The Red Sox had to cut ties with Grady as we are an unforgiving bunch here in New England! I believe Grady handled his job here as well as any Manager in the big leagues. His decision in game #7 was obviously the nail in his coffin. I hope he lands another job and he has great success but I also believe the Red Sox made the correct move to let him go! It is truely a unique, sad ending, only in Boston!!

Chris, Dighton

Grady Little did a lot to stablize a team that was lacking leadership. How ever, he missed his big chance to shine by letting Pedro stay in during game 7. The Red Sox orginazation promised us fan a team that will compete with and beat the Yankees and we came up short by what everyone including my 77 years old mother, saw as failure on the managers part to make the right move during a crucial time. Good luck to Grady and thank for another entry in the Sox book of coming up short. P.S. What about Jeff Torborg for Manager. The Owners wanted him when he was still working with the Marlins Syd Myers, Suffering from Sox Shock in Florida

Syd, Palm Bay, Florida

All I can say is that the RS management had better have an eye on a heck of a manager to fill G. Little's shoes. Secondly, if the lose Ortiz and/or Martinez over this, they are done for next year...and I won't buy a seat for any games.

rusty, Lyndon, VT