Oakland Athletics Play-By-Play Broadcaster Apologizes For Apparent On-Air Racial Slur
deadline.comThe Oakland Athletics promised to take action against their play-by-play broadcaster, Glen Kuiper Jr., who apologized Friday after an on-air slip that resulted in an apparent racial slur.
Kuiper later apologized during the sixth inning of the A’s game against the Kansas City Royals. The situation happened during the pregame, when Kuiper and broadcast partner Dallas Braden said they visited the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.
In relating the story, Kuiper mispronounced the word “Negro,” making it sound like a slur. Kuiper gave a vague apology later in the broadcast. “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.
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