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Looks like another huge overreaction. Since nothing negative can be said about Carribbean ball players than nothing positive should be said about them either. I think they were more angry that he basically called them stupid then the reference to Carribbeans. Is Carribbean an entire race? Perhaps Krueger was just pointing out the lack of college training or the style of ball they play in the carribbean. International NBA players (mostly white) are constantly single out and often in a negative light. - i.e. the "international players are soft". No outcry is ever heard on this common phrase.
I don't know anything about Larry Krueger but if he had anyaspirations ofrisng higher in his profession... he can forget about it. He has a job for now, and has apologiized but I wouldn't be surprised if he is ash-canned.
"I just cannot watch this brand of baseball any longer," Krueger said. "A truly awful, pathetic, old team that only promises to be worse two years from now. It's just awful. It really is bad to watch. Brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly."
Said Salvadore: "The Caribbean ballplayer thing was clearly out of line," though he noted Krueger will not lose his job.
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"I just cannot watch this brand of baseball any longer," Krueger said. "A truly awful, pathetic, old team that only promises to be worse two years from now. It's just awful. It really is bad to watch. Brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly."
Said Salvadore: "The Caribbean ballplayer thing was clearly out of line," though he noted Krueger will not lose his job.
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I think it is a well known fact that Latin players swing at everything. Sorry! I ment Carribbean ball players. Oh, wait that isn't acceptable either! Do I lose my job posting on Caste Football?
Poor Felipe Alou, who has to hear an "insensitive" remark every 40 to 50 years. What a horribly racist country. Maybe he should go back to the Utopia (Dominican Republic) he came from.
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The Dominican's have a saying, "You don't walk your way off the island, you hit your way off it." Any baseball fan knows they are hackers. This radio guy accidently opened the white hating immigrant loving media door and the tremendous push has bowled him over. He will be lucky to keep his career.
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Alright -- The Ingrate, Chip-on-ShoulderAlou Brothers
This one jumps off the page at me. I'm right there with Don W's post, Alou is one of the many magnificently fortunate Islanders who got all sorts of admiration from White Males during the 1960s 70s 80s and 90s. Now in return we get hate and bitter, Honqui-drop-dead. I have baseball cards of all three Alou brothers from 1960s. Jesus Alou was the most photogenic, Felipe the strongest hitter, Matty a stalwart Pittsburgh Pirate. The years have gone by and their presumptuousness is shocking. If it weren't for the White male baseball fan, each of the three would indeed be hacking -- Sugar Cane, for the Domino corporation
Boo Hiss Alou!Edited by: Realgeorge
This one jumps off the page at me. I'm right there with Don W's post, Alou is one of the many magnificently fortunate Islanders who got all sorts of admiration from White Males during the 1960s 70s 80s and 90s. Now in return we get hate and bitter, Honqui-drop-dead. I have baseball cards of all three Alou brothers from 1960s. Jesus Alou was the most photogenic, Felipe the strongest hitter, Matty a stalwart Pittsburgh Pirate. The years have gone by and their presumptuousness is shocking. If it weren't for the White male baseball fan, each of the three would indeed be hacking -- Sugar Cane, for the Domino corporation
Boo Hiss Alou!Edited by: Realgeorge
This is likely to be a precursor of things to come, as the Hispanic player/manager/coach is now nearly asplentiful in MLB as white players, and at the rate they are coming into the league, perhaps in the not-too distant future, they will be in the majority.
The other day, I counted 250 names in MLB boxscores. Over 30% had Hispanic surnames, and I'm sure there were several others, like Mike Lowell, who are Hispanic, but don't have a surname of that origin.
I play in several computer baseball leagues, and often use scouting handbooks to track prospects. In the one I use most often, nearly 50% of the up-and-coming big league prospects are Hispanic.
So, those who dare criticize, do so with care. It matters not thatyou may be stating a true fact, only that you are PC.
The other day, I counted 250 names in MLB boxscores. Over 30% had Hispanic surnames, and I'm sure there were several others, like Mike Lowell, who are Hispanic, but don't have a surname of that origin.
I play in several computer baseball leagues, and often use scouting handbooks to track prospects. In the one I use most often, nearly 50% of the up-and-coming big league prospects are Hispanic.
So, those who dare criticize, do so with care. It matters not thatyou may be stating a true fact, only that you are PC.
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This is truly a page out of the text book of the Soviet Union. If you say something that Stalin didn't like you are thrown off to a concentration camp. The world is getting more and more anti - white. Even something that is supposed to be recreation is being corrupted. What is being done to Mr. Krueger is a tragedy. Felipe Alou said the comments were offensive. What offends me is that if he were a White Manager with his statistical results he would be out of Baseball. He had great teams in the mid 90's with the Expos and they never went anywhere. He has what is supposed be going into the season a solid veteran team to make a run at the division, what are they in 4th place. McGowan and Saeban should do the right thing and fire Alou before the Giants go further down the tube.
Felipe Alou is going to make hay out of Krueger's remarks. Oh, he is sooo offended that he will not accept an apology, saying ``There's no way to apologize for such a sin.'' Truly a revealing statement from the man widely honored for his -Born Again- religious views. Seems as though Krueger has committed the Unpardonable Sin. Race trumps religion again.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Giants manager Felipe Alou called a one-week suspension given to a radio host for making racial remarks about the team's Latino players ``a slap on the hand'' and said he wouldn't accept an apology from Larry Krueger.
``He came to apologize to me? You have to be kidding me,'' Alou said Saturday, one day after the suspension. ``There's no way to apologize for such a sin.''
Alou said he wasn't in position to accept an apology on behalf of the ``hundreds of millions'' of people offended earlier this week when Krueger went on the Giants' flagship station, KNBR, and went off about the struggling club and its ``brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly.''
`All of these people have been offended by this idiot,'' Alou said. ``I can't speak for hundreds of millions of people. This guy offended hundreds of millions of people.''
Moises Alou,the son of the manager and an outfielder for the Giants, called it an ``ugly incident'' and said unfair treatment of Latino players by the media was not new.
``It's been going on a long time,'' he said. ``They blame steroids on Mexico and the Dominican Republic. I guarantee you can get steroids in the United States, too.''
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Giants manager Felipe Alou called a one-week suspension given to a radio host for making racial remarks about the team's Latino players ``a slap on the hand'' and said he wouldn't accept an apology from Larry Krueger.
``He came to apologize to me? You have to be kidding me,'' Alou said Saturday, one day after the suspension. ``There's no way to apologize for such a sin.''
Alou said he wasn't in position to accept an apology on behalf of the ``hundreds of millions'' of people offended earlier this week when Krueger went on the Giants' flagship station, KNBR, and went off about the struggling club and its ``brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly.''
`All of these people have been offended by this idiot,'' Alou said. ``I can't speak for hundreds of millions of people. This guy offended hundreds of millions of people.''
Moises Alou,the son of the manager and an outfielder for the Giants, called it an ``ugly incident'' and said unfair treatment of Latino players by the media was not new.
``It's been going on a long time,'' he said. ``They blame steroids on Mexico and the Dominican Republic. I guarantee you can get steroids in the United States, too.''
Krueger has been Fired! Anyone surprised?
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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. </TD></TR></T></T></TABLE>Edited by: Bart
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No, however, his words stuck with me & everytime a Latin player strikesout I say, "brain-dead Caribbean hitter!"