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Glen Kuiper's firing over a racial slur divided baseball. Will he get a second chance? [View all]
By Susan Slusser,
Senior Baseball Reporter
Aug 15, 2024
More than a year after Glen Kuiper lost his job broadcasting Oakland Athletics games for NBC Sports California for using a racial slur on the air — not for the first time — he remains out of work.
“I hope and pray that somebody gives me a second chance because I think my track record is pretty good,” he said. “I think I’m a pretty good announcer, and I’ve got a lot left in me.”
On May 5, 2023, during the A’s pregame show, Kuiper was enthusiastically discussing a trip he and analyst Dallas Braden had made to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum earlier in the day when he uttered the slur.
It was the second time Kuiper used the term on the air. He also did so in June 2020, while discussing depictions of Negro League players among the cardboard cutouts filling the stands during the pandemic. That factored into NBC Sports California’s decision to let him go.
Senior Baseball Reporter
Aug 15, 2024
More than a year after Glen Kuiper lost his job broadcasting Oakland Athletics games for NBC Sports California for using a racial slur on the air — not for the first time — he remains out of work.
“I hope and pray that somebody gives me a second chance because I think my track record is pretty good,” he said. “I think I’m a pretty good announcer, and I’ve got a lot left in me.”
On May 5, 2023, during the A’s pregame show, Kuiper was enthusiastically discussing a trip he and analyst Dallas Braden had made to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum earlier in the day when he uttered the slur.
It was the second time Kuiper used the term on the air. He also did so in June 2020, while discussing depictions of Negro League players among the cardboard cutouts filling the stands during the pandemic. That factored into NBC Sports California’s decision to let him go.
Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/athletics/article/glen-kuiper-s-firing-racial-slur-divided-mlb-19568003.php?utm_content=cta&sid=5452ceca3b35d010308db67f&ss=P&st_rid=6fcd140e-65d0-44bd-b37a-ae6a16e6a4e5&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=briefing_nons&utm_campaign=sfcn%20%7C%20bay%20briefing
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