The Great Mayor’s Cup Kerfuffle of 2018 may not go down as one of the great near-crises of the Bill Peduto administration.
And it’s fair to assume that Cupgate — a short-lived misunderstanding about whether a youth tournament would take place at PNC Park — won’t be the biggest controversy of the Pirates’ offseason.
But nevertheless, for about two hours on Wednesday evening, Pittsburghers affiliated with the Mayor’s Cup, an annual tournament of the city’s youth baseball and softball leagues, were rather displeased with their local professional baseball team.
It was all a big misunderstanding.
At about 7:15 p.