Code Red

After fleeing this year's dog of an NL playoff "hunt" as decisively as did last year's BoMel "led" squad, perhaps  it is time to ask a hard question regarding the Diamondbacks:

"How might this franchise's recent ill fortune have differed if the players had only worn red uniforms?"

It is, due to recent developments, a fair question. After all, Diamondbacks' woes certainly cant be laid at the feet of Bob Melvin, who must be, by virtue of his contract extension alone, a fine, fine manager.

Diamondhacks timidly thought maybe the fourteen of seventeen game abstention in the middle of a wide open 2006 wildcard race might be the players' fault. But no. We've since been assured they're doing "everything we ask". And most everyone, even us, agrees GM Josh Byrnes is doing, at minimum, a solid job bringing in personnel.

So, yup, we're pretty sure it's those godawful purple uniforms that've been holding this well oiled juggernaut back. Those dirty, filthy, "loser" uniforms.