So they promote the special advisor of all the bad trades Bill Smith made? Well 1 reason would be because ownership wanted to return to dumpster diving. As for bill he deserves credit for getting us into the international market , and most of our top prospects were signed under Bill. When Mr. Ryan was brought back under the imtrem title, i was hoping his job would be to find a quality replacement to be the new G.M. But once i saw how he low balled all 4 of the free agents, I knew he was here to cut payroll....