It seems like every time the Dodgers get us all feeling good and plant positive thoughts of actually making it to the post season in our minds, they invariably shoot themselves in the foot – and us in the heart.

To say that losing the current series to the Colorado Rockies, the indisputable worst team in baseball (well, except for the Houston Astros, of course) is a crushing blow would be an unfair understatement. They Dodgers didn’t just lose this series, no sir; they flat out embarrassed themselves and have created serious doubts as to whether or not they actually have what it takes to earn a playoff berth.

Not a very inspiring image, is it? Quite frankly, the Dodgers should be ashamed of themselves with their performance against the Rockies.

To score only one run, collect only 9 hits, leave 19 men on base, and go 0 for 13 with runners in scoring position in 18 innings (thus far) against a team with the worst ERA and BAA in all of baseball is absolutely, positively unacceptable and, as I said, embarrassing. The Dodgers should be ashamed of themselves.

I will be the first to commend new Dodgers ownership for fulfilling their promise to spend whatever it takes to make the Dodgers a winning team immediately, but they are getting ripped off. In the last six months the Dodgers have spent a total of $310.5 million on Kemp, Ethier, Kershaw, and Hanley Ramirez alone (this not counting the $11.5 million still being paid to Manny Ramirez and Andruw Jones this season – and Jones is on the Dodgers payroll through 2014 – uggh!). And while we all know that spending a lot of money doesn’t always equate to success in the MLB (see Boston Red Sox), spending $310.5 million to score only one run in 18 innings against the Bad News Bears of Major League Baseball is, again, simply unacceptable.

I am extremely blessed to have had the privilege to come to know Dodgers manager Don Mattingly through the blog spot and I have nothing but the utmost respect for him as a manager and as a person, but it is getting frustrating (and old) to hear him constantly talking up his team and blowing sunshine up our noses only to have his team fail (and miserably) against teams that there is absolutely no excuse for losing to. I understand that any team can win on any given day, but for the Rockies to beat the Dodgers on two given days, at Dodger Stadium, in front of 56,000 Dodger fans (well, at least on Tuesday’s Koufax bobble head night) is inexcusable.

As Dodger fans, at least those of us who are serious Dodger fans, we will not turn our backs on our beloved Dodgers because it’s simply not in our DNA (using one of Mattingly’s favorite phrases); nor will we abandon our hopes that the Dodgers might still squeak into the post-season (in spite of themselves), but it sure would be nice if the Dodgers would quit turning their backs on us.