PITTSBURGH, PA. – Earlier today, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, the 2025 Cy Young Award winner, served hot dogs at a Sheetz convenience store (Sheetz, which has 830 locations nationwide, is the marquee sponsor of the Pittsburgh Pirates). For years, that bewildered me. Every major media outlet in Pittsburgh ran a story on Paul Skenes serving hot dogs nicknamed the “Big Glizzy.”
“The intrigue,” wrote Axios’ Ryan Deto, “The new menu item is inspired by glizzy, online slang for a hot dog, and Skenes said its massive size won’t leave you wanting more.”
Ironically, at only 9 inches, the hot dog isn’t even as big as your generic foot-long dog. But to Sheetz, “size doesn’t matter,.” What matters is that Skenes and his girlfriend, Livvy Dunne, have a combined 18 million followers on Instagram and Tik Tok…