The season is still salvageable.......maybe

Okay, being swept by Padres and now by the Giants was not what the D-backs were shooting for when they started this road trip from hell last Friday. They blew a game in the bottom of the ninth for the second consecutive game today, and just when you thought it couldn't possibly get worse...it did.

Six straight losses now, and they've lost 14 out of the last 18. Meanwhile the Dodgers are on a tear and have won 9 of their last 10. So, looks pretty dismal, but that's exactly what gives me a glimpse of optimism for the remaining 17 games.

The D-backs are absolutely playing the worst brand of baseball imaginable right now. All facets of the game are in the toilet. But, think about it, they can't possibly play any worse than they are right now for the remainder of the season. This is the absolute bottom. It's the buy low and sell high analogy to the stock market. It would be like selling all of your stock after the market had plummeted 1000 points over a couple of weeks. By then it's too late. Selling the D-backs now would be the gut instinct reaction, but it could be a buying opportunity instead. On the flip side, the Dodgers are at an all-time high and everything looks rosy. Jumping in now to buy that stock while you can would be the common mentality. But again, you want to be selling at the top, not buying.

Over the next couple of weeks, two things will happen: the D-backs will come up for some air after nearly drowning, and the Dodgers will float back down to earth after their skydive. And then we're right back to being even at the top of the division again. Now I'm certainly not convinced that even if this team does make the playoffs that there is any kind of run in them at all, but if they just so happen to be hitting on all cylinders for just a couple of weeks, you never know.

So, while many in the media have officially put the fork in this team, I don't think it's quite dinner time yet.