I love this World Series! San Francisco Giants vs. Texas Rangers.

Somebody is going to do something spectacularly memorable.

The Giants haven’t won a World Series since 1954, when they were still the New York Giants. They have never won baseball’s championship while based in San Francisco — going back to 1958.

The Rangers had never won a postseason series of any sort until this year. Not since they moved to Texas in 1972 … but also not in their history as the reincarnated Washington Senators,  who played in D.C. from 1961 through 1971.

So, for the Giants, 53 seasons (counting this one) without a championship in San Francisco, 56 seasons title-less years for the franchise.

And for the Rangers, 39 seasons of nothing in Dallas-Fort Worth, 50 seasons of nada as a franchise. This is their first appearance in a World Series, for goodness sake.

These are the two longest championship droughts in baseball, by franchise, aside from Cleveland (last title: 1948) and, of course, the Chicago Cubs (1908).

So this will be fun. Someone’s generations of long-suffering fans are about to be rewarded for their allegiance.

Each club is interesting. The Giants have a wonderful pitching staff, headed by The Freak, Tim Lincecum, and punctuated by The Beard, the hirsute closer Brian Wilson. Their lineup is a pastiche of players not exactly in great demand around baseball at the start of the season. Buster Posey, the catcher who came up through their system, probably is their best hitter, though journeyman Aubrey Huff has some pop, as do Pat Burrell and Cody Ross, guys basically abandoned in midseason by their previous teams.

The Rangers have left-hander Cliff Lee, who has never lost in the playoffs, to lead their pitching staff, and a fine closer in Neftali Feliz. The rest of their starting pitchers (C.J. Wilson, Colby Lewis, Tommy Hunter) do not seem quite as accomplished as those of the Giants (Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez, Madison Bumgarner), but their hitters are far more imposing.

Consider the Rangers’ Nos. 2 through 6 hitters: Michael Young, Josh Hamilton, Vladimir Guerrero, Nelson Cruz and Ian Kinsler. The Giants have nothing to match up to those guys, and the numbers in the playoffs bear it out. Texas has scored 59 runs in 11 postseason games, the Giants only 30.

During the regular season, the Rangers scored 787 runs, fifth-best total in baseball, and the Giants scored 697. Even accounting for the designated hitter, the Rangers look more potent.

But if good pitching beats good hitting, the Giants have a great chance. They gave up 583 runs, only two more than the MLB-leading Padres, while Texas surrendered 687.

Yes, the American League is stronger than the National League, so give the Rangers an edge there. But the NL has homefield advantage for the first time since 2001, so that helps the Giants, in their cold and windy and cramped little ballpark on the shores of McCovey Cove.

If we begin to think in terms of history and fan allegiance, the Giants have a big edge. This is the team of Willie Mays and Mel Ott, Juan Marichal and Carl Hubbell. And Barry Bonds. The Rangers are the team of … Nolan Ryan for the last five seasons of a 27-year career, Rafael Palmeiro and  Juan Gonzalez, Ferguson Jenkins and Charlie Hough (for parts of their careers).

I can’t say I actually know a Rangers fan. Not a one. I know many Giants fans, including the three young children of my first cousin, who I imagine are angling for ways to get to see a game. One of them, a few years ago, confessed he aspired to wear the distinctive orange and black of the Giants.

However this turns out, it will be memorable. Someone’s first championship. Someone else’s latest close call (if the Giants lose) or still the best season in club history (if the Rangers lose).

I’m looking forward to it. But not, I’m sure, like fans are in Texas and San Francisco.