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00:00We heard that Mike Schilt is retiring as the manager of the San Diego Padres.
00:05News was broken by Kevin A.C. of the San Diego Union-Tribune,
00:08and I want to read you this whole letter from Mike Schilt,
00:12and this was published by Kevin A.C.
00:14It is with a heavy but full heart that I'm announcing my retirement
00:17from managing the San Diego Padres.
00:19It's a decision that I thought about during the season
00:21and became at peace with over the last 10 days.
00:24He announced his retirement on October 13th.
00:27I gave every fiber of my being to help achieve Peter Seidler's vision
00:31of bringing a World Series championship to San Diego.
00:34Fell short of the ultimate goal, but I'm proud of what the players, staff,
00:36and organization were able to accomplish the last two seasons.
00:39The grind of the baseball season has taken a severe toll on me,
00:43mentally, physically, and emotionally.
00:45While it has always been about serving others,
00:47it's time I take care of myself and exit on my terms.
00:50Extremely appreciative to the Padres, Peter Seidler, the Seidler family,
00:53Eric Grupner, A.J. Preller, and staff for the trust and confidence to lead this team.
00:57I'm confident I left things in a better place.
01:00And then he keeps on going there.
01:0234 years of coaching and managing for Mike Schilt at the professional level.
01:07I spent the last two years as the skipper of the San Diego Padres.
01:11This guy was a very good manager in St. Louis.
01:15He was, I thought, wrongly let go.
01:18I thought there was zero point for St. Louis to move on from Mike Schilt when they did.
01:22Mike Schilt was a heck of a manager in San Diego.
01:25Good for him for just kind of realizing the priorities over his life right now
01:29and getting out right now.
01:31He would have had a job moving forward.
01:33There's no doubt in my mind about that.
01:36I really don't think this had anything to do with the Padres falling short
01:40and losing in the wild card round.
01:42I think this is just baseball's hard.
01:45162 and being there for 30 spring training games is really hard.
01:49And Mike Schilt was ready to move on.
01:50Yeah, you know, I don't think there's anything you could point to in particular
01:55that, you know, he could have done substantially better.
01:58Maybe bunts a little bit more than I like.
01:59But, you know, like I think this really was just a, he's had a really long professional career.
02:05And then this may have been the job that may have been best for him
02:08when he was really just trying to like get going in his professional,
02:13maybe in his managerial career, even a few years ago.
02:15Like, this is an exhausting gig, I'd imagine, in San Diego where it's win now always.
02:22And I don't like, I won't pretend to know AJ Preller,
02:25but I think it's quite visible through the transactions that there's a level of urgency.
02:32And I think especially the last two years where he knows, like, you know, he's got to do something.
02:39There's the financial urgency side of it as well because of how much this team invests in success,
02:43but also then the trade capital urgency and how much they've always been in win now mode
02:47that I imagine has to seep down to the manager's office, to the clubhouse and beyond.
02:53And if you're a guy that already is like, man, I'm feeling the grind after all these years.
02:58I can't imagine how exhausting that San Diego gig must have been this year
03:02and just to the last couple of years.
03:04That's as, I think, stressful as an environment as there probably is in terms of,
03:08we got to do it now and we haven't been able to.
03:11Which is funny because it's probably the most stressful job in San Diego, California.
03:14That place is paradise and you can make stress out of paradise.
03:18There's no doubt about that.
03:19It is a unique situation in Major League Baseball because they're always hyper-competitive.
03:27They haven't reached the mountaintop, but they pursue that mountaintop every year.
03:33And there's some roster turnover, right?
03:34There's some continuity.
03:35I mean, Manny Machado has been there.
03:36We know Fernando Tatis has been there and will continue to be there.
03:40There are some pitchers that have been there and going anywhere anytime soon.
03:43Right.
03:44Like, you know, there are guys, there are building blocks.
03:46But when the complementary pieces change all the time like this, that has to increase the stress level there.
03:55And I just wonder, you know, San Diego, like, what do they do moving forward?
04:00Do they want someone like Bruce Bochy to come in?
04:02And this is like their humongous push towards a World Series.
04:07Bruce wants a third or a, you know, third different team.
04:10He wants to got a third different team to a World Series championship.
04:13Or do they go with somebody like Hundley, who is a San Diego guy who is interviewing for this managerial opening in San Francisco right now?
04:21Do they go with someone younger?
04:23Do they elevate somebody like Ruben Niebla?
04:25I don't know, man.
04:26It's interesting.
04:28And I have no idea the direction that San Diego wants to go.
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