https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/oakland-as-announcer-glen-kuiper-suspended-after-accidentally-using-racial-slur-during-broadcast-per-report/amp/

...for years, I was sure as shit not expecting that. Wow.

I imagine dude is going to go away for a while. On-air apology or not.

He was subconsciously thinking it, and that’s why it came out.

To go from negro to the n-word isn’t some slippage of the tongue,
and even his colleague just went along with it.

frequently he just forgot he was on the air

...is that the term "Negro Leagues," to a lifelong baseball fan, is an idiom, a stock phrase that you learn when you're learning about Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson et al. The words are inextricably linked, like they're all one word - "negroleagues" - so much so that if you played word association with me, "league" would invariably be my first response to "negro." Not even sure what my second choice would be.

Which means that someone like Kuiper would have had to deliberately divorce those words from each other in his mind, break that idiom apart. That's no slip; that's work. Damn.

smh. they are both "forbidden" words. one is used pretty much ONLY in this context, both otherwise stay on the do-not-say list. so neither exactly rolls off the tongue for a guy who talks publicly for a living. i'll add out that "ih" is a much lower effort phoneme than "eeh" and "er" is easier to say than "oh". try it and see how much your mouth has to move for both.

imo, this is an absurd reason for someone to lose their job (if that happens). i have no idea how often he has said the word in his life prior to this and neither does anyone else in this thread. this is not someone screaming slurs on twitch, it's clearly a mistake. the idea that you can read his soul from this is stupid.

i know nothing about the guy. is there any prior evidence of him being racist?

>smh. they are both "forbidden" words. one is used pretty much
>ONLY in this context, both otherwise stay on the do-not-say
>list. so neither exactly rolls off the tongue for a guy who
>talks publicly for a living. i'll add out that "ih" is a much
>lower effort phoneme than "eeh" and "er" is easier to say than
>"oh". try it and see how much your mouth has to move for both.

For someone that talks about professional baseball for a living he’s probably talked about the Negro Leagues multiple times.

With the ease that he said the other word it’s obvious that it’s not new to his vocabulary either.

>imo, this is an absurd reason for someone to lose their job
>(if that happens). i have no idea how often he has said the
>word in his life prior to this and neither does anyone else in
>this thread. this is not someone screaming slurs on twitch,
>it's clearly a mistake. the idea that you can read his soul
>from this is stupid.
>
>i know nothing about the guy. is there any prior evidence of
>him being racist?

He should definitely lose his job. The Oakland A’s are a wrap anyway I doubt if that dude was going to Vegas.

> the idea that you can read his soul
>from this is stupid.

Making sweeping generalizations based on intonation is silly. All we know is this one incident. But IMO the incident was so completely offensive and inexplicable that it warrants firing.

If the word just came out wrong then why wouldn't he immediately have corrected himself and apologized?

Was he drunk or impaired in some way?

Best case (and most unlikely) scenario is that he's just wildly incompetent in which case having him as the voice of a MLB team and tv station in a live televised broadcast poses an enormous risk. Not like there aren't hundreds of other capable up and coming announcers out there who would jump at the chance for that gig. And who could figure out a way to make it through a telecast without using the N word. Next.

He needs to be fired

>He needs to be fired

but that has nothing to do with the pitch of his voice

well I know what came out of his mouth..

lets stick with what we heard and stop acting like we need xray machines to get to the bottom of this.

should be canned

We're supposed to forgive people that aren't good at hiding their hoods?

FOH to anyone making excuses for this bullshit.


*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

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>FOH to anyone making excuses for this bullshit.
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>
>*skatin' the rings of saturn*
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>..and miles to go before i sleep...



Showing their asses

everytime someone gets outed in public for using a racial slur while drunk, or someone has a slip of the tongue on air. I think to myself I can count on no hands how many times I've accidentally or intentionally used these words. It's never slipped out when im angry or drunk. I've been both so many fucking times. It doesn't happen because I don't use it in my private or public life. But I do remember letting a shit slip out in front of my mom when I was in 4th grade, because I was using shit at school all the time.

a lot of these guys get caught trying to make off-color jokes or hot mic shit

but he just straight up incorporated it into normal vocabulary like nothing was wrong

Either very professional to be able to keep it moving or used to it.

Partner to be the one to say it.

fucking racist Leprechaun looking ass..

was shocked when it was the other guy.

I'm leaning more towards homeboy than proud boy

:(

only controversy is which kind of kc sauce you prefer

my KC BBQ rankings from my visits last year

1. Q39 (sidenote: they had the best wings i have ever had in my life)
2. Jack Stack
3. Gates
4. ABs

there were a few more spots i wanted to check out this year but I dont have KC in my work territory anymore

q39
gates
joe's kc
jack stack
abs
and tons of others

none are bad
depends on what you like
my family grew up on gates

he got racks from a few different places for his super bowl shindig and consensus was that they were the best

but uh... where's LCs??? thats the best sandwich in town imo

I'm impartial to burnt ends and for that reason, LCs is my JOINT. The best burnt ends in K.C., IMO.

BUT we didnt get them anywhere else in town

they were good enough that i absolutely
believe you, but i dont have any points of comparison

Ol girl handed me a box the size of a deluxe Monopoly set. I got about 3 or 4 meals out of it

which means he is fired or he has to hit up rehab

..any HINT of an allegation while Black and your career is in serious jeopardy (if not over).

White racist says some racists shit ON AIR (with absolutely NO REACTION by their on-air counterpart) and they get "suspended indefinitely."

Bottom line: you get the benefit of the doubt (even when its blatant) when you're white.

Fuck anyone making excuses for this shit.

BRING 'EM OUT! © Hov


*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

and try to wait for the dust to settle

Is that not a thing anymore, or did the producer miss it? Or did he just say screw it and let it through?

>Is that not a thing anymore, or did the producer miss it? Or
>did he just say screw it and let it through?

Knowing how live TV works and how much of a circus the control room can be, where everything is about hitting marks and staying on schedule, it likely went over everyone's head. That's also likely why Braden didn't react at all while standing next to him: he had someone chattering in his earpiece the entire time. Kuiper could have been talking about engaging in a cocaine-fueled orgy the previous evening (which would have been preferable to what he actually said), and as long as he said in a measured tone with a regular cadence and didn't go over-time, nobody there would have reacted.

The producers probably found out about it when everyone else did: When someone posted a clip on Twitter.

And Braden did say that was the case, a couple days later, that he wasn't even paying attention when it happened.

Wasn't going to and couldn't go any other way.

*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...