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Tonight the Boston Red Sox take on the St. Louis Cardinals at Fenway Park in Game Six of the World Series, but Boston and St. Louis symphonies, breweries, food trucks, and public radio stations are already deep in extra innings online.

Though more than 1,000 miles apart on the map, fans of Boston and St. Louis have been brought together by the Web and some friendly wagers.

The brass sections of the Boston and St. Louis symphony orchestras already wowed local audiences with their tunes, but were also one of the first groups to bring the World Series to the Web. In a YouTube video, the two symphonies go back and forth trading disses (St. Louis: "Don't get impatient as we cruise towards our twelfth championship." Boston: "You remembered how to lose in 2004. You remembered really well.") before ending in a collaborative mash up of 鈥淎nything You Can Do I Can Do Better,鈥� 鈥淭ake Me Out To The Ballgame,鈥� "Meet Me In St. Louis," and "Sweet Caroline."

Though it鈥檚 tough to compare barbeque and baked beans, food trucks from St. Louis and Boston are currently competing in a special online edition of Food Truck Throwdown, which asks foodies to vote for their favorite local food truck from each city. The site offers 30 different options, from Boston鈥檚 Paris Creperie鈥檚 offering of a 鈥淐aramel and Sea Saltalamacchia Crepe鈥� to St. Louis鈥檚 Completely Sauced 鈥淏eat Beantown Balls.鈥� 聽Need a sample before you decide which tasty team gets your support? Scroll past the voting to check out each contender, plus connect with them on social media to find out where they're stationed in each city.

Most people wouldn鈥檛 put public radio and baseball together, but that hasn鈥檛 stopped St. Louis Public Radio and WBUR from defending their cities via the virtual airwaves. Over Twitter, WBUR and St. Louis Public Radio agreed to these terms on Oct. 22:

Both public radio stations have an active social media presence (@WBUR has more than 32,00 followers, @stlpublicradio has more than 15,000), so a victorious TwitPic would likely be a coveted prize.

Harpoon Brewery in Boston and Schlafly鈥檚 Brewery in St. Louis are betting a keg of their best concoction that their baseball team will win the series. In a statement聽from Harpoon,聽president Dan Kenary says he agreed Dan Kopman, co-founder of The Saint Louis Brewery, to the following bet:

The banter kept going in each company's blogs. Schlafly's also has a bet with Boston Beer Company (maker of Sam Adams) owner to send a brewmaster to the winning city to help brew a victory beer, which means, Mr. Kopman says in a blog post,聽"Boston will have a chance to taste what 12 World Series Championships tastes like."聽Harpoon posted a blog on the bet telling St. Louis to "fear the beard."

Right now, the Red Sox are up 3-2 in the series, and if the team wins either tonight or tomorrow, it will be the first time Boston has won the World Series at home since 1918 (when Babe Ruth was pitching).

But for the symphonies, breweries, public radio stations, and food trucks, the World Series glory will live on past the baseball diamond, and on in the cyber stadium.