The Oakland A's Have Fired Their Play-By-Play Man After 20 Years For A Slip Of The Tongue
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
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🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show. |
| 0:01.6 | Speaking of the aforementioned Oakland A's, |
| 0:06.1 | they had a broadcaster, their TV announcer. |
| 0:09.9 | For the last two decades, 20 years, |
| 0:14.3 | he had been their TV announcer. |
| 0:17.5 | And he went and visited the Negro League's baseball |
| 0:21.3 | museum in Kansas City. |
| 0:23.5 | And he's trying to explain about that experience. |
| 0:30.3 | And in so doing, the N-word slipped out. |
| 0:35.4 | And not Negro. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, the one that rappers use all day every day? |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, that one. |
| 0:44.7 | That happened to Glenn Kuiper. |
| 0:47.8 | And as a result, he was fired. |
| 0:49.8 | He immediately apologized. |
| 0:51.8 | He got tripped up on his words. |
| 0:54.3 | It wasn't like he was trying to be awful |
| 0:59.3 | or denigrate. |
| 1:00.3 | He got tripped up on his words. |
| 1:01.6 | He was obviously nervous that he uses words correctly |
| 1:05.8 | because let's get it out there. |
| 1:09.3 | White Americans are scared to death of being called a racist. |
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