{"id":156234,"date":"2026-04-03T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156234\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:14:08","slug":"pirates-new-dugout-tradition-and-the-mystery-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156234\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates new dugout tradition and the mystery behind it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pittsburgh Pirates seem to have started a new tradition in their dugout, &#8220;hoisting the cone.&#8221;Pitching ace Paul Skenes talked about the trend on the Pat McAfee Show Thursday after it was seen during their last game against the Reds. &#8220;Well the life of the cone &#8212; (it) has been used a lot recently, so gotta keep that going. Uh, I don&#8217;t know. There&#8217;s probably going to be a number of people who hoist the cone this year. Cruz wore it a couple times. He looked like he was at Hogwarts. I don&#8217;t know the story on the cone,&#8221; Skenes said.While Skenes may not know the story of the cone, it appears to track back to a shirt the licensed sports gear company Fanatics was selling. Pittsburgh Clothing Co. spotted the &#8220;Hoist the Cone&#8221; shirt and shared the image on X, asking a question that has now infiltrated the minds of many Pirates fans, &#8220;What the heck does \u201cHoist the Cone\u201d mean&#8221;Was it a misprint? Was it supposed to read Hoist the Colors? Or was it a reference to the Pittsburgh Cone from 2019 &#8212; a waffle cone special filled with everything a yinzer needs: kielbasa, pierogi, Swiss cheese and more. No one appears to know. What we do know is Skenes believes the cone that was spotted in the team&#8217;s dugout was picked up by one of his teammates on the side of the road in Cincinnati earlier this week.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates seem to have started a new tradition in their dugout, &#8220;hoisting the cone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pitching ace Paul Skenes talked about the trend on the Pat McAfee Show Thursday after it was seen during their last game against the Reds. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well the life of the cone &#8212; (it) has been used a lot recently, so gotta keep that going. Uh, I don&#8217;t know. There&#8217;s probably going to be a number of people who hoist the cone this year. Cruz wore it a couple times. He looked like he was at Hogwarts. I don&#8217;t know the story on the cone,&#8221; Skenes said.<\/p>\n<p>While Skenes may not know the story of the cone, it appears to track back to a shirt the licensed sports gear company Fanatics was selling. <\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Clothing Co. spotted the &#8220;Hoist the Cone&#8221; shirt and shared the image on X, asking a question that has now infiltrated the minds of many Pirates fans, &#8220;What the heck does \u201cHoist the Cone\u201d mean&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>Was it a misprint? Was it supposed to read Hoist the Colors? Or was it a reference to the Pittsburgh Cone from 2019 &#8212; a waffle cone special filled with everything a yinzer needs: kielbasa, pierogi, Swiss cheese and more. No one appears to know.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Facebook.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>What we do know is Skenes believes the cone that was spotted in the team&#8217;s dugout was picked up by one of his teammates on the side of the road in Cincinnati earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates seem to have started a new tradition in their dugout, &#8220;hoisting the cone.&#8221;Pitching ace Paul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4662,4702,37576,47567,70842,70843,50813,70844,70845,28032,70849,70171,70850,70851,5437,39531,70837,22146,63951,70847,18203,70838,73,70839,70840,75,74,10997,70841,42564,70848,3839,67458,70846,67065,78],"class_list":{"0":"post-156234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cone","11":"tag-cruz","12":"tag-dugout","13":"tag-dugout-trend","14":"tag-fanatics","15":"tag-hoist-the-colors","16":"tag-hoist-the-cone","17":"tag-image","18":"tag-kielbasa","19":"tag-licensed-sports-gear","20":"tag-many-pirates-fan","21":"tag-meanwas","22":"tag-mystery","23":"tag-oneil-cruz","24":"tag-pat-mcafee-show","25":"tag-paul-skenes","26":"tag-pierogi","27":"tag-pirate-new-dugout-tradition","28":"tag-pirates","29":"tag-pirates-fans","30":"tag-pittsburgh","31":"tag-pittsburgh-clothing-co","32":"tag-pittsburgh-cone","33":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","34":"tag-pittsburgh-news","35":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","36":"tag-reds","37":"tag-shirt","38":"tag-skenes","39":"tag-story","40":"tag-swiss-cheese","41":"tag-teammate","42":"tag-x","43":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}