These days in baseball, everyone's attention is on the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians. That's too bad, because Friday night featured a sparking of blood rivals in addition to Game 3 -- that's right, we're talking about the band Smash Mouth and the Oakland Athletics.

The drama started innocently enough -- John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle tweeted about Coco Crisp going from benched by the A's to plating the go-ahead run for the Indians in the World Series. That's when Smash Mouth decided to take a shot. The A's did not react kindly to such aggression:

From there, your usual band-versus-team ruckus played out, with both sides trading barbs about each other's irrelevancy and/or incompetence:

A's reliever Sean Doolittle, who was himself an All-Star in 2014, even got involved, sprinkling in the names of some of Smash Mouth's old hits and clearly winning the day:

And then, lastly, for now anyway, the A's made like Doolittle has throughout his career, closing this one out with verve:

Things didn't actually stop there -- Smash Mouth kept going -- but the A's official account offered no more retorts. Still, the two sides had everyone enthused, even hours and hours later:

It's worth noting Smash Mouth -- or at least whichever member runs the account -- is known to be into the San Francisco Giants, so some animosity toward the A's is to be expected.

Nonetheless, here's hoping the two sides can mend their relationship. Because, jeez, what the world needs right now is "You might as well be walking on Sonny Gray" T-shirt night.