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Big G_Money,
you made the point that I wanted, and hit it out of the park. 
A failed strategy does not necessarily mean that the strategy was a poor strategy.  There are many several parts to the M's organization and if any one area falls short well then a the strategy may then not bring about the needed results.  And the failure to achieve the level of competence in more than one are brought about the fall of the Bavasi regime.  Have you happened to look at the failure of our draft throughout the 90's, no wonder we were not building for the future.
I could easily point my finger at a number of things I thought the M's have done right and what they should do to improve.  No matter how simple the solution sounds it is much easier verbalize it than to implement it.  Ergo there are no simple solutions.  And as the Pirates, Royal, Toronto, Baltimore, Indians,... rebuilding sounds like an answer but tell me who has the crystal ball that can tell for certainity that when you come back out on the other side of a 3-5 yr plan your team is now a contender.  It does happen but then again it may only be a 1 yr flash before the rebuilding begins again because the payroll is to high and the team no longer has a fanbase to support such a payroll.