He won't be around for the start of next season. They need him help
with the winter meetings, but the Padres problems fall at his
feets. The coaches how no input on player acquisition, that's up to
Towers and his scouts. As for physical conditioning, that's the
trainer's responsibility. Like Greg Booker said, you can prepare a
donkey to run the Kentucky Derby, but he probably won't win.

--- In sandiegopadrespub@yahoogroups.com, "TogaDude" <togadude@c...>
wrote:
> He'll be around for a long time. At least another year so he'll
get the chance to make that big splash during free agency during
this next offseason.
> TogaDude
>
> So do you think Kevin Towers will be around next season? Probably
> not.
>
>
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