I’m not quite sure how I feel about the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series.

Having grown up a Dodgers fan, I came to loathe the Giants, and their shifty ways and their awful ballpark.

Ah, the memories. Juan Marichal beating John Roseboro over the head with a bat; Willie Mays’s whining when Don Drysdale backed him off the plate; the Frisco ground crew turning the area around first base into a swamp so Maury Wills couldn’t get a good jump on stealing second base …

Still and all, I found myself preferring that the Giants win, rather than the Tigers. Nothing against the Tigers, really … just my decades-long National League bias coming to the fore. I also prefer nine-man ball to the American League’s 10-man junk.

But I do know one group of people who should regard the Giants’ sweep as a wake-up call.

And that would be the Dodgers.

With two World Series victories in the past three seasons, the Giants now have seven championships to the Dodgers’ six.

Since 1988, I think I just assumed that the Giants would never catch the Dodgers, in World Series wins.

The Kirk Gibson/Orel Hershiser Dodgers gave the Dodgers a half-dozen World Series titles in 33 years, a period when the Giants won zero championships.

However, the Dodgers have won none since beating the Oakland Athletics 24 years ago … and the Giants have popped out two champions after going 0-for-their-first-52 years in San Francisco.

The Dodgers have more money than do the Giants, and it ought to be easier to coax free agents to Chavez Ravine than to AT&T Park (or whatever it is called this year) … but the Giants clearly are doing more things well than are the Dodgers.

Pitching is a lot of it. Lincecum was unhittable for a couple of years, and now they have Cain and Vogelsang and Bumgarner and even Zito. The Dodgers have Clayton Kershaw and … then it gets thin.

The club took on two enormous contracts in the Gonzalez/Crawford deal with Boston, so do they still have money to find some pitchers? Are any working their way up out of the minors? Haven’t the Giants just shown, for the umpteenth time, that your chances of ultimate victory are greater with Cain and Bumgarner than Crawford and Gonzalez?

So, I don’t mind the Giants winning it all, in 2012.

But I do mind them moving up to fourth on the championship list (Yankees 27, Cardinals 11, Athletics 9), ahead of the Dodgers.

Men in Blue, it’s time to do something about this.