Radio Host, Two Station Officials Fired After Giants Brouhaha

Associated Press via MyWay.com ^ | August 10, 2005 | Greg Beacham

[RayChuang88]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Francisco Giants' flagship radio station fired controversial talk-show host Larry Krueger and two station officials Tuesday night, six days after Krueger made racially tinged criticisms of the club and manager Felipe Alou.

Tony Salvadore, KNBR's vice president and general manager, announced the firings of Krueger, program manager Bob Agnew and KNBR Morning Show producer Tony Rhein in a brief statement.

Salvadore said the firings were related to "inappropriate comedy sound bytes" played Tuesday morning during a discussion of Alou's recent interview with ESPN in which he roundly criticized KNBR and Krueger, who was suspended last Friday.

[RayChuang88]

Despite what some people express concern about Giants' manager Felipe Alou supposed preferring players from the Caribbean (why is that a bad thing? Baseball is extremely popular in the Caribbean and many people there want to make it to play pro baseball in the USA), making racially-insensitive remarks about Alou and then making worse with what happened yesterday morning on KNBR's morning show just makes the situation worse, not better.

I don't blame KNBR for terminating all those people; even the major talk shows on stations such as WIP in Philadelphia, WFAN in New York City and WEEI in Boston which tend to be highly critical of the local teams do not make racial slurs in such a flippant manner.

[EveningStar]

What sound bites did they use?

[RayChuang88]

What sound bites did they use?

According to the San Franciso Chronicle, they used sound bites from South Park. If that isn't politically incorrect, I don't know what is....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Our local sports radio guys are certifiable idiots, painful to listen to. When a young male Gorilla escaped from the Franklin Park zoo and appeared to be headed west, they made some extremely crass remarks to the effect that he wanted to get into a "MEDCO" (sp?) program. MEDCO is a program that allows Boston inner city kids to enroll in high schools in the western suburbs. A lot of the best football and basketball teams in some of these towns are heavily stocked with MEDCO ringers.

I say ringers because gifted inner city athletes are much more heavily recruited than inner city Asian potential academic decatholetes.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I dunno, I heard some of it on the news, and I cringed, only funny in a Beavis and Butthead kinda way.