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Your Pirates fans are doing something WILD at PNC Park

Yinz gotta hear about these Pirates fans

So listen—you know how Pittsburghers are, right? We love our teams. It's not just a hobby, it's like, a part of your DNA, n'at. And the Pirates, bless their hearts, they've been giving us a real ride this season. But there's something wild happening at PNC Park that you just gotta see.

### What's Up With All the Cones?

Here's what's wild: people are bringing orange traffic cones to baseball games. Seriously! They're calling it "Hoist the Cone," and every time the Pittsburgh Pirates score a run, fans are hoisting these orange cones up in the air. It started kinda small, but now it's a whole *thing*. You walk past the Clemente Bridge on a game day, and it's not just black and gold, you're seeing splashes of orange. It's quirky, it's totally Burgh, and it's making the games even more fun. It’s like a new, unofficial mascot, but it’s a traffic cone.

* Fans are bringing actual orange traffic cones to PNC Park. * They "Hoist the Cone" every time the Pirates score a run. * It's become a new, unexpected tradition for the season.

It just goes to show you, yinz, how Pittsburgh can take anything and make it its own. We're a city that loves a good tradition, even if it's a new, totally random one. It's that community spirit, that willingness to just run with something fun and silly, that makes the Burgh what it is. That's the Burgh, yinz — steel town heart, no matter what.

My pals over at the Morning Wire are probably still laughing about this. Catch them every day at mornings.live!

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