Like any minor league baseball team, the Phillies’ Triple A affiliate Lehigh Valley IronPigs go through roughly fifty or sixty alternative uniforms throughout a season. This year, it was announced fairly early that one of those donned by the ‘Pigs this season would feature their big club city’s most iconic delicacy.
A surprisingly well-acted promotion tells us the switch’s origin: That we exist as part of a multi-verse, and in one of the worlds, the Phillies’ Triple A team is called the “Cheesesteaks” and also Philadelphia has apparently pushed north through the Pennsylvania wild and annexed territory as far as Allentown, which is now under the rule of its empire.