{"id":8601,"date":"2014-07-20T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8601"},"modified":"2014-07-20T23:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:25:37","slug":"minor-league-gm-offers-to-get-prostate-exam-during-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/20\/minor-league-gm-offers-to-get-prostate-exam-during-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor League GM offers to get prostate exam during game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/pelicans.jpg\" alt=\"pelicans\" width=\"302\" height=\"167\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/pelicans.jpg 302w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/pelicans-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><br \/>\nWell this is a first, we think.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Milovich, the general manager of the Single-A Myrtle Beach Pelicans, says he will have a prostate exam while singing &#8220;Take Me Out to The Ball Game&#8221; if a 10-year-old girl can get 10,000 likes on her Facebook page prior to the game.<\/p>\n<p>That Facebook page belongs to Fallon Emery who has been fighting brain cancer for the last seven months. She currently has over 8,200 likes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If what we do saves a kid from having to lose his or her father because they get checked out, this will be worth it,&#8221; Milovich said via <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/minor-league-baseball\/story\/_\/id\/11239168\/gm-andy-milovich-myrtle-beach-pelicans-offers-get-prostate-exam-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team is also planning to hand out foam fingers and is raising money for Emery on Aug. 2 with an auction of sports memorabilia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is a first, we think. Andy Milovich, the general manager of the Single-A Myrtle Beach Pelicans, says he will have a prostate exam while singing &#8220;Take Me Out to The Ball Game&#8221; if a 10-year-old girl can get 10,000 likes on her Facebook page prior to the game. That Facebook page belongs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8605,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions\/8605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}