No Doubt, he was hired to be a color man and he was doing his job. He was jabbing with a co worker and his joke was funny. Fox says it's worried about being PC, give me a break.!! Fox (Dave Hill, boss of Fox sports) ought to be ashamed o himself..
2006-10-17 02:45:08 · 15 answers · asked by Bobby 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
not as much as ur momma last night,hehe,
see how would u feel if ppl made fun of u?
before he made fun of green,4 observing his holiday of yan kippur.he deserved it.
i didnt mean my 1st sentence.
2006-10-17 02:56:31 · answer #1 · answered by Compton,CA 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Fox had to do something and not just to be PC. The level of the dialogue in the booth was boring at best. Lyons added little insight of value. Lou Piniella sounded like a growly old grouch and the ballgame was getting lost in a river of insipid babble. Fox had plenty of cause to clean house. There are talented, interesting baseball commentators. It can be done.
2006-10-17 06:31:40 · answer #2 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He's there to be a baseball analyst, not to make off-color remarks. This is also not his first offense - earlier in the playoffs, he made fun of an almost-blind fan, and he made a joke about Shawn Green a couple of years ago that played on the stereotype of the greedy Jew.
He's supposed to be a color guy, not a comedian. Unfortunately, he's neither.
2006-10-17 03:44:17 · answer #3 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think he got run over by not being PC. Of course to be PC, you can have no ethnic/political/or cultural identity, because if you say anything about it or about another person, you are labled a bigot or racist. I think the idea of being PC (tolerant and aware of others), has mutated into the most hateful and intolerant culture. Instead of addressing a person's insensitivity or lack of awareness to what they said and trying to inform them to help them become better people, they are instantly called racist and are hated like they had murdered thousands. It just doesn't make sense anymore.
2006-10-17 06:33:44 · answer #4 · answered by Barry 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What he said was misconstrued.
And, coincidentally, what he said about Shawn Green was misconstrued as well. Shawn Green has since said he knows Steve Lyons didn't mean anything by it. He didn't take it offensively. And, that Steve Lyons was one of the best commentators in the sport.
I think people are hypersensitive
2006-10-17 04:54:04 · answer #5 · answered by Jeff S 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
anybody thay looses a job for something they say is SCREWED!
Bone-headed comments are a part of life! YOu know if that was a comment about white folks -it would have been laughed off!
People need to stop being so wimpy when it comes to words.
I am of German descent and really don't care if someone calls me a nazi...
best to just laugh it off and take it in the spirit it was made in!
2006-10-17 06:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by f4fanactic 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, he got screwed. The guy is not a biggot or racist.
Naive - yes.
Tries too hard to fit in or be funny - maybe.
Should have been taken off the air - that is up to his employers and the image they want to convey.
A bad person that deserved to be publicly humiliated - no.
2006-10-17 05:34:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He apparently was making fun of Lou Pinella's accent.
2016-03-28 12:52:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea man just like Harold Reynolds was screwed by ESPN. Where were you scuzz buckets then.
2006-10-17 14:28:58 · answer #9 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He should have got the boot years ago.
2006-10-17 06:01:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋