Glen Kuiper has been fired from his position as Oakland A’s broadcaster … after he used the n-word whereas on-air earlier this month.
NBC Sports California mentioned in a press release Monday it got here to the choice to half methods with the longtime play-by-play man following a weekslong investigation into the incident.
“We thank Glen for his dedication to Bay Area baseball through the years,” the community mentioned in asserting the information.
Kuiper had initially been suspended on May 6 for utilizing the racial slur whereas speaking with Dallas Braden simply earlier than the A’s vs. Royals sport on May 5.
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During their dialog, Kuiper had been attempting to clarify to viewers what they did throughout the leadup to Oakland’s contest in Kansas City … however in an try and say they’d gone to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, he muttered the n-word as an alternative.
Later within the sport, the 60-year-old apologized for all of it … saying he had mentioned one thing that did not come out the way in which he supposed.
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“I couldn’t be extra sorry and horrified by what I mentioned,” he added in one other apology later within the week. “I hope you’ll settle for my sincerest apologies.”
Kuiper had been calling A’s video games and different sporting occasions within the Bay Area for twenty years.