Grab your sunglasses and fill up the convertible. For the fourth time in history and the first time in 13 years, we have an all-California World Series, pitting Anaheim against San Francisco, Disneyland against Alcatraz, the Happiest Place on Earth against Baghdad by the Bay, oranges against sourdough, ultra-conservative Republicans against ultra-liberal Democrats, the main street electrical parade against the cable cars.

And oh, yes, the Angels will play the Giants.

We'll find out how the players stack up against each other in the next four to seven games, but here's how Anaheim and San Francisco fare in other important categories.

	Anaheim: The Rally Monkey and Thunderstix		San Francisco: Splashdowns in McCovey Cove

The owners
The Giants are owned by Peter Magowan, who made his money in the supermarket business and saved the Giants from moving to Tampa Bay in 1992 by buying the team. In an era of stadium blackmail, he and the team also paid for a ballpark on their own without fleecing the taxpayers.

The Angels are owned by the Walt Disney Co., a progressive, innovative company dedicated to bringing happiness to as many people in as many cultures as possible, creators and packagers of all that is good and wholesome in this world, and the people who sign our paychecks.

Huge edge: to the Angels. And if you want to make an offer on the team, please call Michael Eisner.

The stadiums
The Angels play at the remodeled Big A stadium, which now bears the name of a power company. Its signature features are the fountain and fake rocks in the outfield, which are supposed to convey the scenic beauty of California but really look like a missing section of Disneyland's Thunder Mountain Railway. Still, it is a beautiful place to watch a game, especially when you leave the park after an Angels victory and see the halo lighted on the Big A in the parking lot.

The Giants play in perennially sold-out Pac Bell Park, which was the first privately funded stadium built in four decades. While it has all the bells and whistles of modern stadia (luxury suites, restaurants, etc.) it also is refreshingly intimate and truly fits into the neighborhood. Its signature is McCovey Cove, just beyond the right field wall.

Edge: Giants.

The curses
The Angels went their first 41 years without reaching the World Series, becoming the first team to blow a 2-0 series lead in the 1982 playoffs and coming within one strike of winning the 1986 playoffs before losing three in a row. Worse than the losing, however, were the accidents and deaths surrounding the team. Lyman Bostock was fatally shot in his car, Donnie Moore committed suicide three years after allowing the 1986 home run, the team bus crashed . . . and on and on.

"That's all you hear, that we were cursed," Angels reliever Ben Weber said Sunday. "I read a story where the guy said, 'This guy died in a car crash. And this guy died in car crash.' I don't even know who those guys were but I'm thinking, 'Oh, my God. I'm going to die in a car crash.'

"It's not funny. I'm just trying to play baseball. I don't want to die. It's definitely not humorous.''

Despite the presence of such players as Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal and Barry Bonds, the Giants haven't won the World Series since moving to San Francisco in 1958. They've reached the World Series only two previous times, and disaster soon fell both times. The 1962 World Series was interrupted several days by rain and was played just as the U.S. military learned Cuba was building missile silos. The 1989 series was interrupted 10 days by a 7.1 earthquake. Asked whether there is any horrible disaster Americans should fear this time, Giants shortstop Rich Aurilia replied, "I don't know. Maybe the Rally Monkey?"

Edge: Angels.

The mascots
The Giants fans wave white Rally Rags, a promotion stolen from the Minnesota Twins. They also have Lou the Seal, one of the better mascots in baseball.

The Angels, however, have the Rally Monkey, the lively little primate who appears on the videoboard in late innings when Anaheim needs a run. The monkey began two years ago and is surprisingly effective in sparking actual rallies. The Angels not only show the monkey on the board, they splice his image into famous movies scenes. Last weekend they showed the "Animal House" scene where John Belushi climbing up the ladder to peek into the sorority house window, but instead of hot sorority chicks, he sees the monkey in a nightgown.

Note: No one has ever seen David Eckstein and the Rally Monkey together in the same room.

Enormous edge: to the Angels.

Tourist attractions
Anaheim is home to Disneyland, the happiest place on earth, which annually draws more than 14 million visitors, most of whom will be standing in line ahead of you at Space Mountain.

San Francisco tops travel polls as the No. 1 city in the world and annually welcomes an estimated 17 million tourists, most of whom will be standing in line ahead of you to get on the cable cars.

Edge: Even.

Hollywood connections
Wesley Snipes plays a Bay Area native and three-time MVP signing a $40 million contract with the Giants (sound familiar?) and Robert DeNiro is an obsessed fan stalking him in the suspenseful 1996 movie, "The Fan" (with John Kruk playing a small role). There is a great moment in the movie where DeNiro, pretending he doesn't know who Snipes is, asks him whether he's Barry Bonds, and Snipes just snorts.

The Angels were owned by singing cowboy Gene Autry and are owned now by Disney. They were featured in the final scene of "The Naked Gun," with a brain-washed Reggie Jackson attempting to kill Queen Elizabeth. They also were the focus of the 1994 Disney movie, "Angels in the Outfield," starring Danny Glover as the manager of the Angels, who go from last place to first.

Glover, however, is a big Giants fan who frequently visits that team's clubhouse. "He was here at the end of August," Aurilia said, "and he asked me, 'What's wrong with the team?' and I said, 'We're not playing with a sense of urgency.' And that's when we started playing well because we got that sense of urgency.

"I know he'll be rooting for us."

Edge: Giants

Jim Caple is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at cuffscaple@hotmail.com.