A Tale of Two Cities: Detroit Tigers Vs. San Francisco Giants
So the World Series is in full swing and as usual I am basing my allegiance on the fundamentals of baseball which includes things like better stadium food, bigger douchebag fans and what team had a the cooler original name. Let's get started.
Before San Francisco had the Giants, they belonged to New York. But everyone knows that. What they may not know is that the Giants began their legacy in 1883 as the New York Gothams. The name change to the Giants came in 1889 when manager Jim Mutrie referred to the one two punch of his pitchers Tim Keefe and Mickey Welch and hitters Roger Conner and Buck Ewing as "his Giants". The nickname stuck and the following season the Giants became the official team name.
The Detroit Tigers have a less concise naming history and there are several overlapping team names during the early days of Detroit baseball. In the mid to late 19th century, teams were named by the cities they played in and in the inaugural season the Detroit team was named the "Detroits". Real original. A few years later, then owner George Authur Vanderbeck renamed the team the Detroit Creams because he insisted the team would be the "cream of the league". The new name didn't last for long and the following season in 1895 saw the first reference to the Detroit "Tigers". In 1896 the organization sought the formal permission from the Detroit Light Guard Military Unit (nicknamed the Detroit Tigers) to use their trademark as their official baseball team name. They've been the Tigers ever since.
Advantage: Detroit Creams
Seriously could you imagine the merchandise and team slogans? "A stadium full of Creamers!"
Greg Minton - San Francisco Giants
In 1985, Greg Minton drove a nail into his pitching hand while trying to shoe a horse.
Al Kaline - Detroit Tigers
In 1967, Al Kaline broke a finger jamming his bat into a bat rack after he was struck out during a close American league pennant race game. He missed the next 28 games and the Tigers ended up in second place, one game behind the Red Sox.
Advantage: San Francisco Giants
Obviously Al Kaline screwed his team out of an opportunity to go to the World Series, but come on, why is Minton shoeing horses himself?
Drunk and Disorderly Fans
San Francisco Giants World Series 2010
Giants fans were so thrilled to make it to the World Series that they began their celebration violence as far back as game one of the fall classic. Giants fans piled into a McDonalds outside of the stadium and proceeded to have a massive brawl complete with hair pulling, dudes punching women, and chairs being flung every which way. Oh here's a video. There was several other incidences throughout the world series, all culminating with a large riot outside of the stadium where drivers were pulled out of their cars, beaten and then left to watch as their cars were smashed and torched.
Detroit Tigers World Series Riot 1984
If there is one thing Detroit loves, it's a good riot. In 1984 the Detroit Tigers defeated the San Diego Padres 4 games to 1 which lead to the first ever "victory riot". Police cars were torched and windows smashed but fans did it all while wearing a smile and poorly fitted cardigans.
Verdict: Detroit Tigers World Series Riot 1984
This was a tough one. Giants fans are obviously the most terrifying fans in baseball and really do give it their all when it comes to horrifying the general public with their antics, but if it wasn't for the Tigers fans of 1984 perhaps we would never have celebration riots. Also Detroit fans get bonus points for celebrating with pennant flags and beer guts while Giants fans celebrate with their iphones recording their vandalism (and then subsequently posting the evidence on Facebook resulting in their arrests).
World Series Walk Up Songs
Brandon Crawford - Writers Block by Royce Da 5'9"
Buster Posey - Me, Myself and I by De La Soul
Hunter Pence - Breaking a Sweat by Skrillex
Brandon Belt - Belt doesn't think he's good enough for a walk out song and as a result, doesn't have one. It's probably because team mates call him the "baby giraffe" because he runs funny.
Angel Pagan - Blue by Gemini
Marco Scutaro - Danza Kuduro by Don Omar
Pablo Sandoval - The Motto by Drake
It looks like the tigers put about as much care and consideration into choosing their walk up songs as they put into choosing a closer. Prince Fielder gets style points for choosing the most bizarre song.
Prince Fielder - Moments in Love by Art of Noise
Delmon Young - I'm Raw by Lil Wayne
Jhonny Peralta - Energia by Alexis Y Fido
Alex Avila - I Got Mine by Black Keys
Omar Infante - Prendelo by El Shick
Austin Jackson - Ballin' by Young Jeezy & Lil Wayne
Miguel Cabrera - Ni**as in Paris by Jay Z & Kanye
Quintin Berry - Hypnotize Notorious Big
Verdict - San Francisco Giants
Giants players know what fans want to hear - upbeat, happy shit that gets them cheering so they win. And I've also learned by listening to their walk up songs is that the Giants players probably spend a lot of their downtime popping E.
This AT&T Park speciality is served up by Orlando's Caribbean BBQ and is named after Hall-of-Famer Orlando "Cha-Cha" Cepeda. It features rice, jerk chicken, black beans and zucchini & pineapple salsa. It's filling enough that the $10 price tag won't make you lose your appetite.
The Coney Island hot dog is a beef hot dog topped with an all-meat bean-less chilli and diced white onions with two strips of yellow mustard and grated cheese. The "Coney Island" hot dog did not originate with Coney Island, New York; the name merely refers to the origin of the hot dog itself. It actually is a local food, originating in Flint, Michigan.
Verdict: Coney Island Hot Dog
Judging on food quality, the Cha Cha bowl wins. But this is baseball people. Hot dogs and ballparks go hand in hand, even if this hot dog requires several hands and two dozen napkins. Not to mention the fact that the dog is from Flint and here I thought the only thing to come out of Flint was depression!
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