Interesting Potential 2014 World Series Pairings

Now that the 2014 regular season has finished in Major League Baseball, we have the ten teams that have made the playoffs.  In one-game-series on Tuesday and Wednesday for the wild-card teams, Kansas City plays Oakland and Pittsburgh plays San Francisco.  The winners will play further in the divisional playoffs, eventually culminating in the World Series, pitting the American League champion against that from the National League.  Here are the teams this year that made the playoffs:

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore Orioles
Detroit Tigers
Los Angeles (Anaheim) Angels
Kansas City Royals
Oakland Athletics

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Washington Nationals
St.Louis Cardinals
Los Angeles Dodgers
Pittsburgh Pirates
San Francisco Giants

This selection of teams offers several tantalizing prospects for potential World Series match-ups:

Baltimore vs. Washington: these two teams are neighbors, just a few miles down the road from each other.  Also, Washington (formerly the Montreal Expos) as a franchise have never been to the World Series, so their appearance would be special regardless of their opponent.

Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh: The last two times the Pirates were in the World Series, they won in dramatic fashion, 4 games to 3, in 1971 and 1979...and their opponent each time was the Baltimore Orioles.  No doubt the birds would like a little revenge, however belatedly.

Baltimore vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: this probably wouldn't be that exciting of a Series rematch, but the Orioles did humiliate the Dodgers 4-0 in the 1966 Series.

Detroit vs. St. Louis: in the 1968 World Series, Detroit came from behind to beat the Cardinals; St.Louis handled the Tigers in 2006.  Maybe there's a rivalry here.

Detroit vs. San Francisco: just two years ago, the Giants shut down the Tigers in a World Series sweep...something that I'm sure Detroit would like to do something about this year.

Kansas City vs. St.Louis: the Royals beat the Cardinals in the Missouri Series of 1985, largely on a controversial "safe-at-first" call late in the sixth game...and haven't been back since.  A rematch would definitely be interesting, especially for the revenge-minded Cardinals.

Los Angeles Angels vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: an all-LA series would be great, especially with such strong representatives of this area in 2014.

Los Angeles Angels vs. San Francisco: the Giants bowed to the Angels in the 2002 World Series...so aside from the north-south state rivalry, there is a payback factor in this potential pairing.

Oakland vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: these two franchises have traded World Series victories in the past, with the Athletics winning in 1974 and the Dodgers prevailing in 1988.  This match-up also has intrastate rivalry connotations.

These are just a few of the possible pairings for this season's World Series. But who do I want to see in it?

Baltimore and Pittsburgh again, but I think it's most likely to be an all-LA Series!