Well, I’m rooting for KC, which means you should definitely pick Baltimore. 
Looking at this page, at least the logo didn’t involve any orange during McGraw’s tenure, and wasn’t even permanent when it was introduced the year after he left (1933).
According to this, the NY Giants didn’t adopt orange as a team color until 1933:
New York Giants (1885 through 1957)
Franchise Colors
1947 through 1957: Black, Orange, White
1940 through 1946: Blue, Red, White
1936 through 1939: Blue, White
1933 through 1935: Black, Orange, White
1923 through 1932: Navy, Red, White
1921 through 1922: Navy, White
1919 through 1920: White, Navy / Gray, Red
1918: Navy, White
1917: White, Navy / Gray, Violet
1916: Violet, White, Black
1915: White, Black, Red / Gray, Violet
1913 through 1914: Violet, White
1912: Black, White, Red
1911: Black, White
1910: White, Red / Gray, Brown
1909: Brown, White
1908: White, Navy / Gray, Black
1907: Navy, White
1906: Navy, White, Red
1905: White, Black / Gray, Brown
1902 through 1904: Brown, White
1900 through 1901: White, Black / Gray, Brown
1885 through 1899: unknown
Orange is a traditional color of NY city because of its founding by the Dutch.
Cool info guys, I knew the Giants were notable for their black jerseys during the Mathewson era, I had presumed orange had a deeper history with the club than the late 1930s.
Interesting that the original 1890s National League Orioles colors are unknown and only the 1901 version of the American League Orioles (who moved to New York in 1903) were black and orange. Always presumed a team that called itself The Baltimore Orioles would model its colors after the bird!
I’ve always found it interesting how flexible teams of that era were in terms of color - indeed, for the first few decades of the century, in terms of what they were CALLED. The Dodgers were known by at least seven nicknames before officially adopting “Dodgers” in 1933.
Apparently the Orioles have just locked Hardy up for the next three seasons, so that’s one position they don’t need to worry about for next year.
In other news, there seems to be rain forecast for both Baltimore and St. Louis tomorrow and Saturday. Hope we don’t get any rain-outs.
I don’t know…the last time the Giants and the Cardinals played in a torrential downpour, I thought it turned out alright 
This seems like such a long delay before the next round. Did the scheduling used to be more dynamic, or am I just getting old and forgetful?
The schedules for the Championship Series were set before the Divisional Series. Since both AL series were 3-game sweeps and both NL series went 3-1, we have ‘down time’ instead of games 4 & 5. If either of the NL series had gone to a 5th game, they would have played today.
I was under the impression the postseason schedule was set in March, if not before.
It occurred to me just now that while I think the I-70 series is a more compelling one (for me, I realize non-Cardinals fans are sick of them), a Cards-Orioles series is interesting too, since the Orioles were originally the St. Louis Browns (or, rather, they were originally the Milwaukee Brewers, but were the Browns more recently).
So I’ll be rooting for the Royals, but not at all disappointed in an Orioles victory.
And, of course, if the Giants win, it’s all moot. Then I’ll just be rooting for whoever wins the ALCS.
I-70 goes to Baltimore :).
Covered earlier. “I-70 Series” refers specifically to a Cards/Royals series, coined in 1985 the first time the teams met, and renewed with the advent of interleague play.
I’m really looking forward to this Orioles-Royals series. Two completely different styles of scoring runs, but both are exciting teams. I think it should be great! And, of course, the Orioles will win.
I used to be pretty familiar with the Royals. When I was in Denver and in St. Louis, KC is where I would go to watch the Orioles. There aren’t many players left from the last time I did that, though.
I wish i were that confident.
Orioles had the most home runs in the AL this year, and the fewest steals.
Royals had the most steals and the fewest home runs.
Runs For/Against (per game) for each team this season:
BAL: 4.35/3.66
KCR: 4.02/3.85
Heh, TBS is screwing this up pretty well, aren’t they?
I was distracted. What happened?
“It wasn’t hit extremely hard.” Color commentary off to a rocking start.
They left the lights on where they did the pre-game show. That was in the batters line of sight. Then they couldn’t figure out how to get them all turned off. Only about a two minute delay, but Tillman took a few extra warmups while waiting.
Forecast right now for St. Louis is showing 20% chance of rain for tomorrow, so fingers crossed.
(Seriously, we don’t need any more rain. Send it to California.)