The Oakland Athletics said they are «working to address the situation» after play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper apologized on the air for appearing to use a racial slur during a pregame segment before Friday's game at the Kansas City Royals.
Kuiper appeared to say the slur on NBC Sports California when he referred to a visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
Before the start of the sixth inning, Kuiper apologized. «Welcome back to Kauffman Stadium. I just want to...a little earlier in the show, I said something, didn't come out quite the way I wanted it to,» Kuiper said. «And I just wanted to apologize if it sounded different than I meant it to be said.
And like I said, I just wanted to apologize for that.» In a statement, the A's called Kuiper's pregame language «unacceptable.» «The Oakland Athletics do not condone such language.