Fox fires Lyons after making racial remarks
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Ray Finkle
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MikeO said:
I guess you missed the part where I said "in the future". He might not need them now but what about 3 years from now if things don't work out with the Cubs. Bottom line is you never want to burn bridges with potential employers.
Because like you say it's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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MikeO said:
So that's what prevents Torry Holt from covering the draft for ESPN, right? Or Al Leiter, while he was still playing, announcing the NLCS every year? If Piniella already has the Cubs job, why is it still important for him to be doing the ALCS? Why would he even do it to begin with? He's got the money.
You, of all people, Mr. Money Talks and Is the Only Thing That Matters, should understand why Piniella would not undercut Fox. And maybe, just maybe, it's respect for Ed Goren and the rest of the folks who have employed him?
Lyons should have been fired. Since when is it right to generalize a whole race of people? If he would have said something about African Americans or about Whites the world would be up in arms. What because he gerealized hispanic people it's OK? He had to be fired. I bet you a lot of hispanics in baseball were upset about this, not just Lou Pinella. He generalized the hispanic population in a negative way and baseball has the most hispanic people of any of the four major sports. I don't say this often but Fox did the right thing!
"Piniella said that expecting similar production (from A's shortstop Marco Scutaro, who hit well in the divisional series against Minnesosta) would be "like finding a wallet on a Friday night and looking for one on Sunday and Monday, too."
Four minutes later, they had moved to different subjects and Piniella said something in Spanish. "The bilingual Lou Piniella," Brennaman said.
Lyons said: "Lou's habla'ing some Español there, and I'm still looking for my wallet. I don't understand him and I don't want to sit close to him now." The three laughed and continued calling the game."
what is racist about that? the wallet comment was just a play on what Lou said about finding wallets.
Four minutes later, they had moved to different subjects and Piniella said something in Spanish. "The bilingual Lou Piniella," Brennaman said.
Lyons said: "Lou's habla'ing some Español there, and I'm still looking for my wallet. I don't understand him and I don't want to sit close to him now." The three laughed and continued calling the game."
what is racist about that? the wallet comment was just a play on what Lou said about finding wallets.
What a pansy society we live in, as nobody can have hurt feelings. That's assuming this statement even hurt anyone's feelings, and if it did, he or she needs to toughen up. What a hypocritical bunch of meaningless crap. Political correctness is a plague upon the land. The only people you can make fun of in this country and get away with it is the white male.
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MoFinz
So, Lyons makes a joke and gets fired because someone gets offended.
Someone wants to make English the official language of the US and someone gets offended, so the English language supporter is told to quiet down and dont antagonize immigrants who dont want to learn English
Yeah, theres no problem here.......
Someone wants to make English the official language of the US and someone gets offended, so the English language supporter is told to quiet down and dont antagonize immigrants who dont want to learn English
Yeah, theres no problem here.......
RWhitney014
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MikeO said:
No, you're missing the point. FOX covers the majority of MLB. You know how virtually every single team's main carrier is FSN, as in Fox Sports Network?
But that's not even the point. The point is, Piniella, no matter what his personal feelings are, is not going to undercut someone who has employed him in the past and will in the future if he wants to be employed. It's not a matter of "need", it's a matter of keeping opportunities open.
UCFinfan86
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i don't get the big deal.
I am half polish, wouldn't it be the same thing as people saying things about polish people being polacks and being stupid? I think its funny when people do that. People need to lighten up, and how come if Steve Lyons was hispanic and he said it, then it would be alright?
Ray Finkle
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Motion said:
Join the club no one else did either.
Ray Finkle
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RWhitney014 said:
100% correct.
Plain and simple, Pinella has to "be a good soldier".
If Pinella backs Lyons, he makes FOX look like idiots for firing the guy as soon as the game was over. If he kills Lyons then he looks bad because he apparently laughed after the "joke" was made. Lou's best bet was to just shut up, which he did.
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LightsOut said:
this is exactly how I feel...I thought of it more as a play towards Lou, then a racist comment about hispanics.