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Taylor Swift, The Rock and the rest of the most popular celebrities on Cut4 in 2014

The 10 most popular celebrity posts of 2014

We're not ones to drop names around here, but -- OK, who are we kidding? We drop names every chance we get. Between first pitches, charity softball games and the Royals' postseason run, it was no surprise to see plenty of high-profile fans in and around baseball in 2014.

After poring through the data, we've gathered the 10 most-popular celebrity-related Cut4 posts of the year. Pop stars, comedians, professional wrestlers and a certain teenager from Philly all managed to make the cut:

10. Chris Rock - The probability of a foul ball bouncing into a particular individual's lap are slim-to-none, but the odds that that particular individual has four Emmys and three Grammys to his name are noticeably slimmer. Chris Rock defied those odds back in August and immediately gifted the souvenir to a kid sitting nearby. He's even entertaining without a microphone.

9. Calvin Johnson - Megatron had his athleticism on display when he visited Comerica Park in September. Not only did he show off those infamous hands when he hauled in a "pass" from Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera, he also wowed spectators with his power, teeing off on a BP ball that landed in the left-center field bullpen.

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8. Mo'ne Davis - The 13-year-old phenom burst onto the scene with a spectacular showing at the 2014 Little League World Series, becoming the first girl to throw a shutout in the history of the tournament. To celebrate, she threw out the first pitch before Game 4 of the actual World Series. Davis stood on the rubber and fired an absolute strike from 60 feet away.

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7. Ben Affleck - The curse of the Ben-bino is real. Since the release of Good Will Hunting in 1997, the Red Sox have not won a single game on Affleck's birthday, August 15. In 2014, the Sox had a 3-2 lead over the Astros ... until the 'Stros tied it on a bizarre play in the eighth inning. A Matt Dominguez double sealed their fate in the 10th. Poor Ben Affleck.

6. Taylor Swift - We had a blank space at No. 6, baby ... until we *click noise* wrote Taylor Swift's name in there. One of the biggest pop stars on the planet turned up on Cut4's radar when pretty much every team in the bigs participated in a Twitter sing-a-long of her "Love Story" back in June. But in October, T-Swift's MLB powers reached their peak. In 2010 and 2012, Swift released new albums mere days before the Giants won their World Series championships, prompting us to wonder if the Royals could break the Taylor Swift Curse following the release of 1989 this fall. SPOILER ALERT: They could not. Swift and the Giants reign supreme.

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5. Mo'ne Davis (again) - The only celebrity to crack the Top 10 twice is the newest celebrity of them all. You know how we know she's a celebrity? She starred in a Spike Lee joint.

4. Kate Upton - It wouldn't be a celebrity roundup unless THE baseball girlfriend was featured somewhere. Upton -- who's been on-and-off with starter Justin Verlander for the past couple years -- took in a Tigers game at Yankee stadium and snagged herself a wonderful memento to mark the occasion. Aww.

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3. The Rock - New York was still pondering the retirement of Derek Jeter in early October when The Rock FINALLY came back to Brooklyn. In his triumphant return to the WWE, The Rock played on the heartstrings of those New Yorkers by starting a "DER-EK JE-TER" chant. We couldn't help but CLAP, CLAP, CLAPCLAPCLAP along.

2. Steve Carell - Michael Scott is the "world's best boss" (he's got the mug to prove it). He's also a pretty impressive jinx. Actor Steve Carell was in the middle of an interview at Fenway Park when Omar Infante skied a pop-up into shallow left field. Jokingly, Carell posited that he should run out onto the field to make the catch. That probably would have helped the Red Sox as they inexplicably allowed the routine ball to drop onto the outfield grass.

1. Billy Crystal on Robin Williams - Not all of the celebrity news of 2014 was joyous and uplifting. In August, the world lost an icon when actor, comedian and entertainer extraordinaire Robin Williams passed away. At the Primetime Emmy Awards just a few weeks later, fellow comedian Billy Crystal honored his late friend in a segment that included an anecdote about that time they called a Mets game with Whoopi Goldberg.