In Richard Justice's retrospective on Wade's career, we get this little nugget (that somewhat bucks conventional wisdom):
Jim Crane and George Postolos had to decide, not whether Ed Wade had done a bad job, but whether they could hire someone better. They decided they could and that’s why it appears Wade will be fired Monday. (Manager Brad Mills is safe.)
That's quite a parenthetical note, but Justice goes on...
Wade and Tal Smith may be the most visible departures, but if they’re the only changes, Crane and Postolos will be making a huge mistake.
For whom is that intended? Mills? Heck? Gottfried? Given the speed with which Wade and Smith were dismissed, I doubt that's the end of the axe-wielding.
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
