Wiz Khalifa threw the primary pitch at a Pittsburgh Pirates recreation Monday night time, however what baseball followers won’t have recognized was that the rapper was excessive on mushrooms as he took the pitcher’s mound.
Khalifa introduced his intentions on Twitter forward of the sport, through which the Pirates took on the Cleveland Guardians at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Penn.
“Finna get stoned af and throw this first pitch at the pirates game,” he tweeted on Monday afternoon. A minute later, he tweeted, “Shroomed out throwin a baseball is crazy.”
In different Twitter posts from Monday, Khalifa posted photographs of his view from a PNC Park box and his bag of Cracker Jack. (“F— yea,” he captioned the latter pic.)
An MLB video clip of his huge second reveals him waving to a cheering crowd because the ballpark announcer welcomes “Pittsburgh’s very own Wiz Khalifa.” The rapper then throws the ball, shrugs, and begins strolling away.
Video from one other angle reveals he got the ball close to home plate.
Khalifa is a proud Pittsburgher, having graduated from Pittsburgh Allderdice High School, because the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported when town council made him an official ambassador in 2012.
He additionally repped his hometown’s official colours — and the colours of the Pirates, the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, and the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers — along with his 2010 No. 1 single “Black and Yellow.”
Khalifa beforehand threw the primary pitch at a Pirates recreation in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles recreation in 2017, and he drew the ire of the MLB by pantomiming like he was smoking a joint simply earlier than the throw. (He was additionally sporting a “Legalize It” shirt on the time.)
“Marijuana is a prohibited substance in all of our drug programs and it is unfortunate this situation occurred,” a MLB consultant informed WTAE after the stunt. “The Pirates have informed us that this should not have happened.”
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Source: www.bostonherald.com