A Brief History of District 12 and a pin that looks like a Lego

When people say I am an Andrew McCutchen supercollector, I live up to it.

I try to collect everything relating to Andrew McCutchen.  

Everything that has his name or face on it, needs to go into my collection. 

Over the summer I came across a former little league pin collection which contained an enamel pin looking like Lego inspired Andrew McCutchen for the District 12 Florida team.

When I think of District 12, my mind immediately goes to Katniss Everdeen, the heroine from the Hunger Games franchise played famously by Jennifer Lawrence

The character offered herself as tribute to prevent her sister from having to enter the Hunger Games.

She won the Hunger Games as a representation of District 12, a small area of Panem known for their mining.

She later went on to challenge how all of Panem is run and started an uprising.

Now that you've been graced with a bit of Hunger Games trivia, let's get back to that District 12 pin....

Here's the front of the pin

The back

Next to a standard size baseball card

Pretty sweet addition to the Cutch collection and definitely one of the more unique items added.

Did you exchange pins or patches in your little league tournament days?

Did you ever watch the movies or read the books for Hunger Games?

Six Degrees of Bacon

I'm sure some of you know the game six degrees of separation and some may have even played six degrees of Kevin Bacon, which is to take any random person and try to connect it to Kevin Bacon.

Well, I thought I would start a blog bataround where we can try to connect some of our favorite players to Kevin Bacon.

I had a lot of fun doing the research for this one.
There is a website called The Oracle of Bacon which will do the work for you and only use movies.  I prefer the old school IMDB method of looking at different actors/actresses.

So without further Ado here we go.

We begin with my favorite player, Andrew McCutchen

Who is a teammate of Sean Rodriguez from 2015-2017

FIRST DEGREE

Who was teammate with Johnny Damon in Tampa Bay (2012)

SECOND DEGREE

Who appeared multiple times in the movie Fever Pitch with Drew Barrymore

THIRD DEGREE

Who was in Whip It with Ellen Page

FOURTH DEGREE

Who starred in X-Men:Days of Future Past with Jennifer Lawrence

FIFTH DEGREE

Who appeared in X-Men: First Class with Kevin Bacon

THAT'S THE SIXTH DEGREE


Now time to celebrate!!!

Why don't you join us, Serpico?

On a side note, he's only a marginal player, but I love cheering for Sean Rodriguez.

It's the J Law

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Visit the official site here.

Breast Cancer will be detected in one of eight women in the US each year.
It is the second leading cause of cancer death among women each year.
On average every 2 minutes a woman will be diagnosed with breast cancer and every 13 minutes one person will die from breast cancer.
There are currently 33 million breast cancer survivors in the USA.

It's important to support the research for cancer.  Breast Cancer is often associated with the color pink so I will be showing off some pink Cutch cards.

In addition, you can expect to see some boobs with each post.  Who doesn't love boobs?

So let's start with what we're hoping to save!

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the highest grossing actresses in Hollywood these days.

She's been two main characters of fan favorite blockbusters.
Mystique

Katniss Everdeen

Ms. Lawrence is stunning as both a blonde and brunette.

Here we have a 2016 Donruss Pink parallel.  The yellow streaks really make this card look good.

The yellow streaks for the blonde Mystique appearance make Jennifer Lawrence look really good too.

How do you prefer Jennifer Lawrence?
Dark or light hair?  Comment below.

Also keep commenting who you want to see in upcoming dates.  I have Britney Spears, Ariel Winters, Ashley Tisdale, Heidi Watney, Kelly Brook, and Pamela Anderson scheduled to appear.  I still need about a week's worth of suggestions.