Did Ed Wade Bring Shawn Chacon's Wrath Upon Himself?

Shawn Chacon was wrong to attack Ed Wade last week. I know it, you know it, and -- now that he's been released -- Chacon knows it. But does that absolve Wade's role in the altercation?

Wade has remained tight-lipped about the incident, but hearing Chacon's side of the story doesn't paint the general manager in a very positive light. Wade approached Chacon in the clubhouse and requested a private meeting. Chacon declined, saying they could talk right there. That's when Chacon says Wade began "yelling and cussing." As Bill McCurdy of the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame told Bloomberg News, that's also what guaranteed that this exchange would not end well.

``You treat a grown man like that in front of his peers and something's going to happen, but it's not going to be good,'' McCurdy said. ``There's no way for him to suddenly get up, if Wade raises his voice at him, and slump silently away to the office like he's being sent to the principal.''

That same sentiment was echoed earlier this week by Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports:

Wade confirmed Thursday to the Houston Chronicle that he told Chacon to "look in the bleeping mirror." [...] Can you imagine another GM talking that way to a player in front of his teammates? The White Sox's Ken Williams, maybe. But the Yankees' Brian Cashman? The Red Sox's Theo Epstein? The Phillies' Pat Gillick? Never.

The general manager is supposed to be a leader, not an instigator. But Wade, during his tenure as Phillies' GM, had a legendary temper.

I don't want to paint Chacon into the role of the victim (I don't even know if that's possible to do), but let's be honest: they're both responsible. We can argue about who is more responsible, but there's no denying that if either man kept his cool, none of this would have happened.