 Their friendship goes all the way back to the early 1980s as college teammates for the BYU Cougars.Towers even traded for Joyner in late 1995, one of the first few transactions he made as the new GM for the Padres.In spite of this, Joyner was likely to be let go at the end of the year like Bench Coach Craig Colbert was on September 29, 2008 due to the same factors in his resignation.