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I remember them very well.  It was in my early days posting on line, but the biggest arguments were the Cruz ones.  Of course, conventional wisdom, er, selective memory for some paint the the Slocumb trade as the most controversial.
You hit on another extremely key point in this group:  the fact the M's have been consistenly beaten by advance scouting over the years.  Without a playoff team since 2001, it's been hard to tell whether or not that's still an issue - but I've actually begun to wonder if there isn't something odd with this.  This walk-off thing would be hard to do if you tried to.  I don't think I've seen anything like this in my 30-something years of watching baseball very closely.  Doc knows this well - he and I come from exactly the same baseball roots, in terms of our age, and baseball following - except that I followed the team that came up short against the Big Red Machine at that time (though they were no slouches themselves - the Dodgers).
You can't panic here, but you do need something to stabilize - what that is is what Z is going to earn his paycheck for....