SAN FRANCISCO -- A talk-show host for the San Francisco Giants' longtime flagship radio station apologized for racial remarks he made about the team's Latino players -- and 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."
Krueger apologized, but that meant little to the Giants.
"I haven't heard anything like that since John Rocker," Venezuelan shortstop Omar Vizquel said Friday, referring to the former Atlanta Braves pitcher's remarks in a 1999 interview with Sports Illustrated in which he bashed gays, minorities and foreigners. "I think an apology is not going to be enough for that type of comment. I've said things I've regretted, too, and I wish I could take them back. I would give a guy a second chance if I knew him better, but I don't know him."
The 70-year-old Alou, shocked and saddened to hear about the comments in a city as diverse as San Francisco, called a meeting with all of the Latin players before the Giants opened a three-game series against the Houston Astros.
Alou vowed to make everyone aware in his native Dominican Republic -- taking it as high as the country's president, Leonel Fernandez, who attended a statue tribute for Hall of Famer Juan Marichal here in May.
"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.
"I don't have harsh feelings. I'm sad to hear that. I'm really shocked to hear that in San Francisco, California -- I can't believe that. I've been coming to this city for 50 years, when I was either managing or playing for the other team. I cannot believe that here I could read or hear something like that. It's not my problem. It's some other people's problem to address."
Tony Salvadore, KNBR's senior vice president, said the station went back and reviewed the transcript. KNBR owns approximately 1.5 percent of the team.
"Larry was wrong," Salvadore said. "It was clearly inappropriate."
Krueger's self-described rant also criticized Giants' management.
"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."
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