{"id":434935,"date":"2023-05-06T05:28:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434935"},"modified":"2023-05-06T03:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T07:19:56","slug":"athletics-announcer-kuiper-sorry-for-using-a-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/athletics-announcer-kuiper-sorry-for-using-a-racial-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics announcer Kuiper sorry for using a racial slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics shared that they would probe the situation as broadcaster Glen Kuiper offers his remorse on air for using a racial slur during a prematch live before the clash against the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For those asking why Glen Kuiper just made an on-air apology, here&#8217;s why. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k1we7gf3GT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/k1we7gf3GT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bubbaprog\/status\/1654679569117372416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Glen did the slur on NBC Sports California when he talked about a trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Before the beginning of the 6<sup>th<\/sup> inning, Kuiper shared that he was sorry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome back to the game. I want to&#8230;a little earlier in the broadcast, I said something that didn&#8217;t come out quite the way I wanted it to,&#8221; the announcer said. &#8220;And I just wanted to say that I&#8217;m sorry if I offended someone. And like I shared, I just want to apologize for this accident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise told the media that the broadcaster&#8217;s language is &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics shared that they would probe the situation as broadcaster Glen Kuiper offers his remorse on air for using a racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":434936,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,18592],"news_category":[16708,14084],"gn_keywords":[19167,18666,12402],"acf":{"announce":"The commentator apologized for his actions.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434935"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434935"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}