Promoting a lack of promotions

When you hear promotion it's often something that people worked really hard for to get to.  For baseball players, it's that moment they finally get the call from the minor league's to the majors.

Andrew McCutchen received his call up to the majors 13 years ago on June 4th, 2009. 

He got an insert card in 2022 Topps Series 1 highlighting his call up.  There's of course parallels to chase and I'm sure I will seek them out as time goes on.

Eventually, no matter how elite someone is though father time eventually catches up with you and you can no longer perform at that same level that earned you the promotion.  

All great athletes eventually have to retire.  

I think that's why some greats have a hard time walking away from the game and find something else related to it as either a coach, broadcaster, scout, etc. 

This got me thinking about real life not because of this insert card or the sudden surge of the Pirates Young Bucs callups, but because I went and saw Top Gun: Maverick.

I won't spoil too much of the movie, but I see my life much in the same way as Maverick.  Lots of experience and the ability to get promoted, but refusing to just because it's not something that fits the mold of the character.  

I heard that someone I helped train about 15 years ago recently got promoted to a job that has been offered to me (and I repeatedly turned down over the past 5 years).  I'm happy to hear that for him as it's something he has wanted.  For me though, despite a higher salary, it is something I wouldn't want to do because it doesn't fit my personality.

Have you ever turned down a higher salary or promotion because it's not something you'd want to do?

It's Showtime!

Yesterday Cutch made a video with his voiceover on MLB:The Show 2020.

I legit had to lol at his voiceovers.

You can see the video on his twitter here.

Cutch is no stranger to The Show

I personally haven't played video games for at least 5 years if not longer.  I do enjoy the older gaming systems, but don't have anything more recent than a PS3.

I have a signed copy of MLB The Show 2013 despite not having this gaming system.

I would love to find any kind of promotional materials for the game to one Day add to my collection.  Posters, magazine ads, anything featuring Cutch on MLB The Show.  If you come across anything let me know.


Additionally it was revealed that MLB will have players play a simulated season on MLB The Show.  The Pirates have Cole Tucker as their representative.  For a full list of participants and details click here.

What video game systems and games do you play currently?

How do you feel about players playing The Show as a simulated season to pass time?

July 8th: National Video Game Day

So a bit of weird circumstances happened yesterday.  I posted a Diamond Marshall Gold card /10 and had a title called Cops and Robbers.  As I was driving home I got a ticket for distracted driving because I had reached for my cell phone as a cop passed me.  Now I have a mandatory court appearance for my first offense and up to a $400 fine.  Oh the irony of a blog post.

Today I hope to lighten things up with a video game post.

Andrew McCutchen was the cover athlete for MLB The Show and would have his name mentioned on cardboard throughout the years citing the accomplishment.

I have previously shown my signed copy of the game

I thought there was more that I could find but only found these two cards while quickly browsing my Cutch binder of non hits.

Not relevant to the post, but here are the fronts

The Show!

When a player makes it to the Major Leagues, it's commonly referenced as "making it to the show."

Thanks to a strong social media presence in late 2012 Andrew McCutchen was able to garner enough votes to become the face of the video game franchise The Show (actual autograph on case below).

Over the years, Cutch has also had cardboard reference his video game presence.

My favorite is a 2013 Triple Tnreads card citing the game.