Darren Smith and John Gennaro had to put out some quick thoughts this morning on Mike Shildt's sudden retirement from the San Diego Padres. They mostly responded to the article that Dennis Lin put out at The Athletic, where he talked to Shildt and got deeper into the burnout reasoning, and some of the real life issues that Shildt was dealing with.

The guys will be back later on this afternoon to react to A.J. Preller's press conference and (probably) talk about some other stuff, too.

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