The Tigers and Giants have both been around for the entire "modern era," but the two have never met in the World Series. But they will this year. I made a little grid showing all the match-ups between the 8 original* American League teams and the 8 original* National League teams. As you can CLEARLY see, there are only 21 holes left. 2012 will be the 43rd different match-up between the originals. The following match-ups have yet to happen in more than a century of World Series play:

A's-Phillies
A's-Pirates
Indians-Cardinals
Indians-Cubs
Indians-Phillies
Indians-Pirates
Indians-Reds
Orioles-Braves
Orioles-Cubs
Orioles-Giants
Red Sox-Braves
Tigers-Braves
Tigers-Dodgers
Tigers-Phillies
Twins-Cubs
Twins-Phillies
Twins-Reds
White Sox-Braves
White Sox-Cardinals
White Sox-Phillies
White Sox-Pirates

So it took until the 108th World Series, but we finally can say two-thirds of the match-ups have happened. It may take another century or longer to complete all 64, what with all the expansion teams. The Yanks are the only team to have met all 8 teams from the other league, while the Red Sox, Dodgers, and Giants have met 7 of 8.

Congrats to Scutaro, Lopez, and the Giants. That triple-bat-hit was fucking crazy. Even crazier was Buck and McCarver trying for the life of them for a half-hour to figure out what the hell happened.

Enter my WS contest here.

*I mean "since 1901." Without going through a complete history lesson, some of the NL teams date back to 1876, and some of the AL franchises existed before the league started in 1901. Also, when I say "team," I mean "franchise." For example, the Twins never played the Giants in a World Series as the Twins, but they did as the Senators.