A Special “Wisdom and Links” today from on the upcoming League Championship Series that focuses on who will win the ALCS and NLCS based on things that have nothing to do with baseball.
For example:
Who would win in a fight?
To be sure, one would expect a Giant to easily squash a Cardinal, but an Oriole-Royal scuffle is more up for debate. After all, Royals come in many shapes and sizes. I’d presume that Prince William would probably be able to take an Oriole, but it’s highly likely that an Oriole would be able to knock little Prince George on his ass. I’d presume that it’d be an adult, healthy Royal, though, so I think the Royals would have the edge.
Except… the Kansas City Royals are actually named after the American Royal Livestock Show, and thus presumably they would be some sort of livestock. I don’t think livestock and an Oriole would fight. They’d probably, like, ignore each other.
Of course, that assumes we don’t just disqualify the Royals for not being an actual thing, as I did when I looked at the question at hand in my grand “Who Would Win In A Fight” post over at the Baseball Continuum.
So, uhm, in the NLCS, the “Who Would Win In A Fight” test says San Francisco has an advantage. In the ALCS, it is far less clear.
Theme Music.
Okay, let’s start in the NL. The Cardinals have a big problem here, in that they lack a theme song. Oh, sure, the “Best Fans in Baseball” have written songs all the time about them – just look on YouTube. But those aren’t official songs. So, by default, San Francisco Giants win via “Bye Bye Baby”, which apparently is still played occasionally in their park.
Similarly, Kansas City lacks a true fight song. Oh, sure, they played the Beatles “Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey!” after they won the ALDS, but you can’t just grab a random song and make it your true anthem. Otherwise, “Don’t Stop Believing”, “Eye of the Tiger” or “We Will Rock You” would be the official music of every sports team in the world. So, by default, the Orioles win this one thanks to “Orioles Magic”, which will now be stuck in my head the rest of the day since I pulled it up to post to this.
So, by default, the Giants and Orioles would win their series if we go by theme songs.
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Ballpark Awesomeness/Importance
Busch Stadium is a perfectly fine field, by the looks of it, but it’s going against AT&T Park, usually named as one of the greatest stadiums in baseball and home of McCovey Cove. Similarly, while Kauffman Stadium must be honored for being a baseball-only facility in the desert of multi-use venues that were its contemporaries, it isn’t as pretty or as important as Camden Yards, which brought the retro-ballpark boom of the 1990s and 2000s.
Advantage: Giants, Orioles.
Coin Flipping
I just flipped a coin for both sides. It said Cardinals and Orioles. Science.
What Fanbase Deserves a World Series More
If we were going by what fanbase needed a World Series more, the NLCS would be a tie and the ALCS would become the World Series. O’s and Royals fans have been waiting since the 80s for a return to the Fall Classic, while the World Series has visited either San Francisco or St. Louis every single year this decade.
The Matchup That Would Make the State of Missouri Happiest
Cardinals and Royals, obviously.
What all of this tells us:
Very little. Moving on…
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LINKS!
Aaron Gordon over at Vice Sports reports on some schmucks who embezzle money from local little leagues.
Albuquerque Isotopes announcer Joshua Suchon clears up some misconceptions on minor league radio announcers.
A bit late now, but Grant Brisbee’s thoughts after the AL Wild Card game were great.
SELF-PROMOTION OF THE WEEK: Remember how I mentioned my post on how I looked at “Who Would Win In a Fight” over at the Continuum? Well, given that it’s already started to become a bit dated, I’m going to recommend you read it now before it becomes hopelessly obsolete.
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There is the unusual possibility that the Giants could win the World Series this year, their third in six years, all coming in an every-other-year configuration. Just for fun, I checked to see if this has ever happened before. I’ve found that the 1942-44-46 Cardinals are the only ones to pull off that trick (unless my eyes are playing tricks on me), but even then, they aren’t perfect analogs to the Giants, as they also made the World Series in 1943, only to lose…
The more you know.
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