Raise The Jolly Roger With a Cup of Coffee

Holy smokes!!!!

What a first day of Pirates baseball in 2018.  While I'm still very bitter about the Bucs trading away Cutch, how about the performances by Starling Marte and Gregory Polanco.
Together they went 5 for 10 with 4 Runs scored, 4 RBI, HR, triple, double, and a stolen base.

Of course the big hit was the Polanco 3 run bomb in the 13th, but how about the new guy, Corey Dickerson, nailing Nick Castellanos at home?

Man that was an awesome game.

I'm not sold the Pirates are going to compete for the division, but they showed a lot of guts and teamwork today.  Hopefully the pitching can improve as they won't win too many games surrendering 10 runs a contest in the future.

To celebrate the Pirates victory, here is my lone Cutch relic with a Gregory Polanco Jolly Roger sleeve patch.

Of course I have MANY MANY MORE sleeve patches of Cutch and even a few more of Polanco (by himself).

Double Fistin'

I picked up a dual relic of Cutch recently that coste $12 shipped.  While not a super steal considering the card is /99 it does feature two bats.

Well sort of.

This 2016 Immaculate card has the obvious bat relic, but also features a Jolly Roger sleeve patch that has a bat showing.

It's a whole new way of double fistin'

My first Cutch relic of 2017

2017 Topps has been out for awhile.  While I have been aggressively adding some key cards from years gone by to my collection I have completely neglected trying to add Cutch 2017 relics to the PC.  I often find the flagship relics to sell really high upon a product's initial release then fall to the $5 or less mark after about a year.  That's normally when I seek out the lesser desired relics of Cutch.

Every now and then though a card will hit the market that you look at and say "I need that because chances are I won't see it again."

Such was the case when this 2017 Major League Material Relic hit eBay.

The card is numbered 3/25 and features a really nice swatch of the Jolly Roger sleeve patch.

I've got some other 2017 relics coming in soon from Heritage, but for now this is my first of (hopefully) many more Cutch Pirates relics produced in 2017.