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Related: About this forumLong time A's baseball announcer fired after N-word slur on the air.
The move was expected. He blurted the N-word out so easily it seemed something he was accustomed to using. An audio of the incident is at the link.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oakland-athletics-glen-kuiper-fired-racial-slur-baseball_n_646be896e4b06749be15fe7b
Glen Kuiper, the A's main play-by-play announcer for 20 years, was fired after saying a slur while describing a visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
During a May 5 baseball broadcast before the Oakland As faced the Kansas City Royals, Kuiper spoke of his trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. But he instead called it the N****r League Museum.
Following an internal review, the decision has been made for NBC Sports California to end its relationship with Glen Kuiper, effective immediately, the network said in a statement on Monday. We thank Glen for his dedication to Bay Area baseball.
During a May 5 baseball broadcast before the Oakland As faced the Kansas City Royals, Kuiper spoke of his trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. But he instead called it the N****r League Museum.
Following an internal review, the decision has been made for NBC Sports California to end its relationship with Glen Kuiper, effective immediately, the network said in a statement on Monday. We thank Glen for his dedication to Bay Area baseball.
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Long time A's baseball announcer fired after N-word slur on the air. (Original Post)
brush
May 2023
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underpants
(186,672 posts)1. Good. Took too long.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,523 posts)2. Got that out of your system, Glen-O?
Idiot.
no_hypocrisy
(48,813 posts)3. Cue for DeSantis to pressure Marlins to hire Kuiper as announcer.
Walleye
(35,678 posts)4. Is there some kind of brain fever sweeping the country?
70sEraVet
(4,145 posts)5. When 'Wokeness' dies, Tourette's rules.
brush
(57,561 posts)6. Good one. An uncontrollabe, automatic response?
ProfessorGAC
(69,898 posts)7. Took Longer Than I Thought It Would
I figured he'd be gone by the following morning.