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Kevin Towers was alternately emotional, thankful, and proud during his press conference today, after it was announced that he would be leaving the San Diego Padres.  KT ends a 14-year tenure as GM, the longest of any current GM.  Towers joked to start his prepared comments that after 47 years on Earth, he was fired for the first time:

He was at his most emotional toward the end of his opening comments, when he responded for the first time to the comments of CEO Jeff Moorad.  In the U-T on Saturday morning, Moorad called Towers a “gunslinger”, and in his press conference earlier in the afternoon, he talked about wanting more “focus” and “discipline” in the front office.  Towers, who once famously wore a sherriff’s outfit, complete with badge and stirrups, on the cover of the Padres’ media guide, was more than happy to wear the title of “gunslinger”:

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