Posted on 08/05/2005 6:54:51 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO, (AP) --
A talk-show host for the San Francisco Giants' longtime flagship radio station was suspended for a week without pay Friday for racial remarks he made about the team's Latino players — though a high-ranking station executive said he would not be fired.
On the air late Wednesday after the Giants lost 3-2 to the Colorado Rockies, Larry Krueger of KNBR went off about the struggling club and its "brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly."
Later, he said, "You have a manager in Felipe (Alou) whose mind has turned to Cream of Wheat."
Krueger apologized, but that meant little to the Giants. He will not be on air again until Aug. 15.
"I haven't heard anything like that since John Rocker," Venezuelan shortstop Omar Vizquel said Friday, referring to the former Atlanta Braves pitcher's remarks in a 1999 interview with Sports Illustrated in which he bashed gays, minorities and foreigners. "I think an apology is not going to be enough for that type of comment. I've said things I've regretted, too, and I wish I could take them back. I would give a guy a second chance if I knew him better, but I don't know him."
The 70-year-old Alou, shocked and saddened to hear about the comments in a city as diverse as San Francisco, . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I wonder if Omar Visquel got pissed off when various leftists referred to President Bush as the equivalent of Hitler?
The Cream of Wheat box — and old advertisements for the product — have traditionally shown a black man named Rastus wearing a chef's hat and serving a steaming bowl of the hot cereal to a group of white children.
Oh, for heaven's sake!
Ok, I'm a Giants fan and I listen to KNBR--or used to when I could pick it up at night and I'm not a big fan of Larry Kreuger. As for his comment about Felipe....well, let's just say that as a Giants fan I have less and less confidence in him as this season goes along. But that's just me.
Omar Visquel is one of the classiest guys in baseball.
He is also one of the smartest, most clever player on the field too.
"Omar Vizquel is one of the classiest guys in baseball."
True statement, he's really a top-level guy and performer. However, Felipe Alou is a jerk, and he's well known throughout the player ranks as too race-conscious and a manager who favors the latin players over the others. Caused problems in Montreal as well, same issue. And that's probably where Krueger's comments came from, the underlying rumblings that follow Alou wherever he goes.
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