{"id":3355,"date":"2015-04-29T06:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T06:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/lindseyadler\/minor-league-baseball-team-to-hold-brian-williams-pants-on-f"},"modified":"2015-04-29T06:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T06:45:31","slug":"minor-league-baseball-team-to-hold-brian-williams-pants-on-fire-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/3355","title":{"rendered":"Minor League Baseball Team To Hold “Brian Williams’ Pants-On-Fire Night”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n1.<\/span> The Akron RubberDucks, the Cleveland Indians’ Double-A affiliate team, have announced<\/a> they will hold a “Brian Williams’ Pants-on-Fire Night” night on April 27th, which happens to be National Tell a Story Day.<\/h2> \t\t\t
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\n2.<\/span> The team says<\/a> fans will be treated to “lie-detector testing, giveaway suspenders, and more.”<\/h2>\t
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Other activities will include “a between-inning chance for fans to audition to be the next television news anchor on the video board, with the fan-voted winner’s video sent to NBC” and “On-field contests, including ‘To Tell the Truth’ and ‘Two Truths & a Brian Williams,'” also known as “Two Truths and a Lie.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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\n3.<\/span> The RubberDucks are also seeking<\/a> a fan named Brian Williams to throw out the first pitch, read “tall tales,” and offer up a pair of pants to be lit aflame in a “‘pants on fire’ ceremony.”<\/h2> \t\t\t
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\n4.<\/span> Earlier this week, NBC News announced<\/a> Brian Williams–of NBC Nightly News<\/i>, not an Akron-based baseball fan–will be suspended for six months without pay after it was revealed he “misremembered” an incident that took place in Iraq in 2003.<\/h2> \t\t\t
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\n5.<\/span> By the time the RubberDucks hold their Brian Williams-themed night, he will be over two months into his suspension.<\/h2>\t
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Will the suspension still be relevant at the end of April? It seems the RubberDucks are taking that bet. But as Don Van Natta Jr. of ESPN<\/i> said on Tuesday:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Six months in 24-hour news-cycle time is 42 years.<\/p>\t\t— DVNJr (@Don Van Natta Jr.)\t\t<\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>

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The Akron RubberDucks, a Double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, will host a themed night mocking the recently suspended NBC News anchor. 1. The Akron RubberDucks, the Cleveland Indians’ Double-A affiliate team, have announced they will hold a “Brian Williams’ Pants-on-Fire Night” night on April 27th, which happens to be National Tell a Story Day. … Continue reading Minor League Baseball Team To Hold “Brian Williams’ Pants-On-Fire Night”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1954,1955],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-akron-rubberducks","tag-brian-williams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/14302791321446-minor-league-baseball-team-to-hold-brian-williams-2-28612-1423759996-19_dblbig.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}