Talk-show host refers to "brain-dead" Caribbeans; suspended from station

[Bluebear]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A talk-show host for the San Francisco Giants' longtime flagship radio station was suspended for a week without pay Friday for racial remarks he made about the team's Latino players -- though a high-ranking station executive said he would not be fired.

On the air late Wednesday after the Giants lost 3-2 to the Colorado Rockies, Larry Krueger of KNBR went off about the struggling club and its ``brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly.''

Later, he said, "You have a manager in Felipe (Alou) whose mind has turned to Cream of Wheat."...

"It really made me sad to know that 40, almost 50 years later I could hear comments like that," said Alou, who faced racism as a black Dominican minor leaguer in the South nearly five decades ago. "Especially in San Francisco ... I never heard anything like that here. I heard it in the South and in some other cities, but not here. A man like me and the Latin guys out there, we have to be aware now that it's not over yet. It is coming back.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-giants-racialremarks&prov=ap&type=lgns

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Sad... Thanks to Bush, a lot of this shit is coming back.

[pinniped]

2. That pig showed his true colors and should be reassigned...

to somewhere other than radio duty.

I watched the G-men almost get swept by the mighty Rockies but the team still has my support.

F-him.

[applegrove]

3. Good.