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Pittsburgh Pirates

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About Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located in southwestern Pennsylvania where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio River, it had a population of 302,971 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh metropolitan area has over 2.43 million people, making it the largest in the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 28th-largest in the U.S. The greater Pittsburgh–Weirton–Steubenville combined statistical area includes parts of Ohio and West Virginia.

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They were the Pittsburgh Alleghenies. In 1880, they stole away a second baseman from another team, and they got called in one of the newspapers a bunch of pirates, and they took the name from that — and that's how they got called the Pittsburgh Pirates.

from No Such Thing As An Emotional Support Amoeba, 2019-12-06 at 00:43:18 · read transcript

Other times Pittsburgh Pirates came up

  1. No, sorry. I only want to say because the reason I brought this up is because I have a fact about the Pittsburgh Pirates, which I really want to say, because I want to know if you guys have heard this, this is amazing. The Pittsburgh Pirates had a scandal in 1985 when it turned out that some of their team had been buying cocaine from a giant parrot. Whoa.

    No Such Thing As An Emotional Support Amoeba, 2019-12-06 · listen

  2. To help you have a firmer grip one of them is and this is done by quite a few players is to piss on your own hands yeah this is an actual thing so there was a news report recently from a Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher called Jameson Tylon and he had to he had to go off I think during a match because of a cut in his middle finger it was really bad it was an open cut So he was told, why not.

    No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall, 2019-09-06 · listen

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