I think he makes some great points, and would give a nice complement to Sabean.

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Beginning today, Brian Sabean will be the longest tenured GM in the major leagues.

That’s because Kevin Towers, the only GM who held a longer continuous service record with his club, will be fired by the San Diego Padres, multiple outlets are reporting tonight.

Towers was elevated to the GM position just a few months before Sabean officially took over from Bob Quinn after the 1996 season.

It’s a surprising move. This game, and the people in it, are judged by wins and losses, but Towers had to strip the Padres’ already meager payroll down to almost nothing this season because owner John Moores was going through a ruthless divorce. Moores eventually was forced to sell the team to former player agent Jeff Moorad.

When I watched the Padres in spring training, I thought they were going to lose 110 games. It was that ugly. Yet they haven’t been a complete embarrassment while compiling a 74-86 record, even beating several contending teams over the final two months. And they’ve stockpiled the system with many interesting arms after trading Scott Hairston and Jake Peavy.

But apparently, Towers isn’t Moorad’s guy.

So here’s a thought for the Giants: Why not seize the chance?

I don’t know if Towers would be willing to take a VP title that’s basically a trumped up version of an assistant GM. But if that kind of opportunity would interest him, it makes all the sense in the world for the Giants.

Towers and Giants Manager Bruce Bochy are best friends who worked together for a dozen years in San Diego. Towers always has spoken with great admiration for Sabean, and vice versa. And Towers would bring a quality the Giants front office has lacked ever since Ned Colletti packed his snakeskin boots and headed south to run the Dodgers.

Colletti was a tough negotiator who usually read the market right. He skillfully handled agents. He had connections with executives throughout the game.

He was a man of action. You got the sense he could pick up the phone, present an out-of-the-box thought and wrap up a trade in five minutes.

That’s the kind of creativity that Towers has demonstrated better than almost any executive in the game. And it’s something the Giants have been lacking in recent years. Can you tell me the last time Sabean engineered a three-team trade? The last time he made an acquisition that really and truly floored you? (In a good way…) And you know the Giants will have to be very, very creative as they search for offensive help this winter.

It’s been accurately reported that Sabean and Bochy are coming back in 2010, but now that I think about it, I haven’t been told that they’ll return with the same job descriptions. Bochy will be the manager, obviously, but who’s to say Sabean isn’t getting kicked upstairs into a more senior role, the way the Braves did with John Schuerholz, etc?

Towers is signed through 2010, so perhaps he’d prefer to take a year off and reflect on his career. But men of action don’t usually like sitting on the sofa. If the Giants came calling, maybe he’d jump at the chance.

And Towers even wears cowboy boots, too.

Perfect.