Posted on 05/06/2023 11:24:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Oakland Athletics said they are "working to address the situation" after play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper apologized on the air for appearing to use a racial slur during a pregame segment before Friday's game at the Kansas City Royals.
Kuiper appeared to say the slur on NBC Sports California when he referred to a visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
Before the start of the sixth inning, Kuiper apologized.
"Welcome back to Kauffman Stadium. I just want to ... a little earlier in the show, I said something, didn't come out quite the way I wanted it to," Kuiper said. "And I just wanted to apologize if it sounded different than I meant it to be said. And like I said, I just wanted to apologize for that."
It appeared that Kuiper mispronounced the word "Negro," making it sound instead like a slur.
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Yeah, look what Thom Brennaman’s apology did for him a few years ago. Last I heard, he was doing high school games.
No.
Woodchipper for you dude.
You can go live with the back-biter Marv Albert now.
Just watch your back.
Please tell me that is not true...
I only heard it from really old people. For a woman usually. Men were “nigros”. It was considered the cultured way of saying it in the Carolinas. Using the N word was considered common.
Unforgivable, Cracker!
Might as well call them the Egyptian League.
Thanks.
That's smart. If I'm the sports announcer I would refer to them as the Black leagues or the segregated leagues. Even though Negro is not a bad word and it means Black in Spanish. But we can't taken any chances with the "Woke Police".
He said “neighgor league museum.”
Sounds like he was going to say major league museum and tried to correct himself to Negro League Museum.
When LBJ said it he meant it as a slur.
He viewed blacks as cattle to be herded into the Democratic Party.
Thanks.
Sounds to me like he is in trouble.
Too late for apologies, I fear.
“That baby is out of here.”
Agree. They referred to Obama as the Magic Negro.
“He White, so he toast. No mistakes are allowed.”
He could try to invoke the Robert Byrd rule exception. Might work.
Might not work.
That was a niggardly way of addressing it.
For the folks Rio Linda, guerrilla does not equal gorilla.
He should tell those neighgors he is not apologizing.
‘guerrilla does not equal gorilla.’
yes, but let’s call a spade a spade...
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In Central Virginia it was pronounced KNEEgrow for men and KNEEgress for women. Everyone was happy with the situation... until the white liberals pizzed on everything.
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