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To all of my dedicated readers and those who stumbled upon, I am switching my blog over to wordpress. I am kinda hesitant because I have grown comfortable with blogger, but I have been told over and over wordpress is better. And I am eventually wanting to move to a externally hosted URL which would be supported by wordpress. And my address is alittle easier to rattle off mikefast.wordpress.com. So without further adieu Wide World of Mike @ wordpress.

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My return from vacation

I was on vacation for about 7 days and then this is what I came back to in my office. Let me tell you once more that I work in a office that consists of all women. Here are the details.









What a nice robe! It was actually really comfy.

If you think about it

I am on my way to Idaho with a couple friends. We are driving so if
you think about it throw up a little prayer. Currently we are driving
through Lodi so only about 9 more hours to go.
I will try to keep you updated on my twitter.

Mike

--
"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose
that prevails."
--Proverbs 19:21

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Mike: Now and Then

This is me Now


This is me then

If I were a GM

If you follow baseball at all you will undoubtedly know that the Tampa Bay Rays (formally Devil Rays) are leading possibly the toughest division in the majors; AL East. Not really sure if this is a product of the organization finally putting together the right talent or just ditching the loosing culture. Either way you look at it, the Rays are a very young ball club. That got me thinking; what if I was the San Francisco Giants GM?

First, I would hit myself over and over for putting up $126 million over 7 years for Barry Zito. Next, I would realize that the future of the team is the young talent. Take a look across the bay and across the country to see that you can win with a team's average age that is under 30.

However, I would not do one particular thing. Use the young pitching of Cain, Lincecum, Sanchez etc as trade bait. We already gave Minnesota some good talent years back in Joe Nathan and Francisco Liriano to get AJ Pierzynski who stayed for 1 year. Just build around what's in place and continue to build around the young guns. If it can work in Tampa it can work in SF.

Hey! Look on the bright side, we are not in last!