Talk:Great Pierogy Race

Untitled
this would be made a subsection of PNC Park in a sensible world. --Wetman 03:29, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

I have a few of issues with this article. First off, 2nd and 3rd tense are switched on and off throughout the article. Next, the name of the article should be "The Great Pierogie Race", as that's what the segment is actually called. Finally, "Potato Pete" was not "dropped". During the Final Season at Three Rivers Stadium, it was warned that the Pierogie with the least wins would be "eliminated". This was comically pursued during the Final Three Rivers Celebrations as a man in a chef's costume cooked Pete on the Field. I hang my head in shame that I know this. FireSpike 03:09, 18 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Heh. Knowledge is knowledge. :) I don't have much on this topic, as I don't remember any details from the one Pirates game I attended. But please feel free to edit the article to make it more accurate! I notice in the history that you haven't made changes yet. -Phoenixrod 04:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The "Potato Pete" character no longer races, but continues to appear on occasion in the animated sequences and, on rare occasions, in the field to interfere with the "winning" pierogies.

I don't recall the date offhand, but during one of the first years of the "race" while still at Three Rivers Stadium, the "Sauerkraut Saul" character had failed to win any races through mid-season. There was heavy newspaper and radio publicity that on this particular Saturday night, "Saul" was "guaranteed" to win. During the race, however, a member of the Pirate's relief pitchers exited the Bullpen and tackled "Saul," preventing him from winning. The scoreboard, which usually has a prepared comment on the race, went dark -- obviously they had prepared text for "Saul's" first "win" which was now rendered useless.

During extra-inning home games, when the game goes very long (at least 13-14 innings) the Pierogies have been known to reappear for an extra race.

The Pierogies and the Racing Sausages from the Milwaukee Brewers have on occasion raced each other. Some years, one set of mascots travels with the team to the other stadium; some years there are "home and home" exhibition races.216.111.114.183 14:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Page move
Assuming that it is actually the Great Pierogi Race as opposed to simply the Pierogi Race, I moved the page from The Great Pierogi Race to Great Pierogi Race as per the Manual of Style's article naming conventions. -Phoenixrod 18:08, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

The Great Pittsburgh Pierogie Race n' at
Correction to the correction on the last post. Pete was NOT eliminated during the last race at Three Rivers Stadium...he, in fact was "eliminated" or "voted off" (aka Survivor-which was BIG at the time) from PNC Park at the end of the 2001 season. The final game of the season ended up with a three way tie which forced a race off between Cheese Chester, Saurkraut Saul and Pete. Towards the end of the game a "race off " was held with the Pirate Parrot and Jalapeno Hannah watching the race from the sidelines. Just as Pete was set to cross the finish line he was closelined by the running duo of Hannah and Parrot and, I believe, Saul won. Pete was replaced by Oliver Onion in 2002 which was the year of the "conspired" videos. Pete met with Sopranos-like characters and plotted the elimination of Oliver, who was involved in a love triangle with Parrot and Hannah. Pete may continue to make "guest appearances, hopefully this year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.61.96.153 (talk • contribs) 7 July 2007

Full title
it is called The Great Pittsburgh Perogie Race N'at, as announced on the scoreboard video every home game. DarkAudit (talk) 15:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


 * What does "N'at" mean? I can't figure it out, and there is only one unique Google hit for "The Great Pittsburgh Pierogie Race N'at". The phrase "Great Pierogi Race" appears to be much more common. -Phoenixrod (talk) 16:20, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * n'at is a common "Pittsburghese" phrase, WDVE has a running gag on the morning show called "Pants n'at". The one hit was probably because I misspelled pierogi. DarkAudit (talk) 18:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


 * That's interesting slang! I think regional words are fascinating. Hmm, I think I spelled pierogi right in the Google search, which still doesn't turn up much. Anyway, are there sources that use the full name of "The Great Pittsburgh Pierogi Race N'at"? Per Naming_conventions_%28common_names%29, the article should use the most common name for the race. Perhaps we should put the full title after the common one. -Phoenixrod (talk) 19:15, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


 * This video taken at PNC Park shows the full title on the scoreboard as The Great Pittsburgh Pierogy Race n'at. DarkAudit (talk) 22:22, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Also this one which is much clearer. DarkAudit (talk) 22:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

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Article Problems
Basically, there are quite a few problems with this article:


 * 1) The animated portion was eliminated for the 2009 season, they now race from the tarp to the Clemente Wall.
 * 2) The parts saying "Potato Pete is reportedly unhappy about his forced retirement, evidenced by his recurring interference with the other Pierogies' business. Some speculate Potato Pete hopes to make a comeback" are (as stated in the sentences themselves) speculation.
 * 3) How is this part of the Food and Drink Project?

I've fixed 1 and 2 within the article myself, and removed the Food and Drink categories from the article, although I'll leave them on this Talk page for a few days. I've also re-written and re-organized portions of the article, as well as adding several improvement tags. I know the wording is bad, and it could probably be placed better in the article, and that I've moved large portions around. However, if you have a problem, please address it on this talk page. BAPACop (converse) 07:00, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

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