Maybe the Giants will still make the playoffs. Heck, they're just a game back of a playoff spot. But if they don't, the epitaph will be simple. A single sentence on a tombstone that tells a story.
Here lies the 2009 Giants, who held the Phillies to three runs in a three-game road series and lost the series.
Don't buy the flowers yet. But it wouldn't hurt you to get your black suit dry-cleaned.