SF Giants Manager Calls Radio Host Racist for Illegal Immigrant Tweet
- Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:51pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy criticized a nationally syndicated radio host Sunday for what he said was a “racist” comment about San Francisco reliever Ramon Ramirez. SFGate.com reports on Bochy’s comments:
“Forget the remarks about me,’ Bochy said. ‘That doesn’t bother me. For a guy to make a racist comment like that and have the ear of so many people, that bothers me. I can defend myself as a coward. I don’t know if you can defend yourself making a racist comment.’
Bochy added he had no idea who Bruno was.”
Radio host Tony Bruno referred to Ramirez as an “illegal alien.“ He also called Bochy a ”coward” in a Twitter post following Friday night’s benches-clearing brawl between the Phillies and Giants.
From @TonyBrunoShow:
gutless #!@%*# Giants. Bochy is a coward for having his illegal alien pitcher hit a guy since mighty Frisco boys .
The mayhem came after Ramirez plunked Shane Victorino in the lower back in the sixth inning of the Phillies’ 9-2 victory.
Bruno’s show is broadcast on local station KNBR 1050 AM. He later deleted his tweet and apologized for his “stupid and insensitive” post.
Ramirez is from the Dominican Republic. He has declined to discuss the brawl but said Sunday he is in the U.S. legally and wouldn’t be able to work in the major leagues otherwise.
“I’m not interested in what he thinks about me,” Ramirez said in a Spanish interview with The Associated Press and a Spanish reporter before the finale of the Giants’ four-game series with Philadelphia. “I’m not interested in what he has to say. I don’t need to pay attention to what he has to say about me. A lot of people say things about me. I know who I am. How would I be able to work here if I were an illegal? He put it on the Internet? I can’t believe that.”
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel and Victorino felt Ramirez hit the center fielder on purpose. The pitcher, Victorino and Giants catcher Eli Whiteside were ejected after the fracas — and Bochy expects to hear from Major League Baseball as soon as Monday regarding any suspensions.
“It’s not like somebody went out to the mound,” Bochy said of visiting Ramirez or instructing him to plunk Victorino. “He just walked a guy. There’s no communication there. The next pitch hit Victorino. It happened so fast. We were as surprised as anybody to be honest.”
Ramirez is ready to move forward — from the brawl and Bruno’s comments.
“Everyone says what they feel in their heart,” Ramirez said. “But I feel that’s not right.”
On his Facebook page, Bruno addressed his remarks.
“My stupid and insensitive twitter post was up less than one minute before I realized it was caustic,” Bruno said. “It was removed immediately and I typed a quick apology on twitter and here. Since I was doing my live radio show, I apologized more emphatically on the air, and the podcast is available on my website (tonybrunoshow.com, hour 3) for those who choose to actually get some facts to go along with the hearsay or bloggers who spread falsehoods about my apology not being ‘sincere.’”
Facebook commenters were not too forgiving.
Liked 16 times: “hope to never have to hear you again on KNBR,” said one commenter. One of the few comments I could find to quote without swearwords.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Comments (87)
marybethelizabeth
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:15pmLet Me Tell You Something
Report Post »Here is Mr. Beck getting his keys all fired up playing the race card again.
Mr. Beck is reminding his keys that it’s us against them.
More of Mr. Beck’s training program as he leads you on to change the world.
MCGIRV
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:22pmDon’t be ridiculous!
Report Post »timej31
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:51pmWhere were you educated? You must have an IQ some where in the bottom 1/10th.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:08pm“How would I be able to work here if I were an illegal?”
Uh….Just ask the millions who do.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:31pmTo My Two Cents – it’s one thing to work in a “normal” nine to five job as an illegal alien. It’s a whole different kettle of fish to work as a high profile, well known sports figure. I’m sure the IRS knows not only his name, but the name of his bank manager, and has his immigration file handy for reference.
Report Post »Rick54
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:37pmsorry Mary, I don’t see it that way. But then that is only MY opinion.
Report Post »StrongWesternbabeluvinherWesternMAN
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:18amall right maryeliz……..‘sir’ addressing you because we all know who you are. Will you admit that this ‘multi-culturalism’ BS has ruined Europe and we are NOT going put up with it IN AMERICA!!!!!! America is a great country ONLY because we allow the individual to adhere to his or her cultures BUT when it interferes with the basic American morality and laws of this nation THEN it becomes an offense. When the laws aren’t obeyed in this nation….uhh …can you say the TEN COMMANDMENTS…..the basic tenants of this nation then the rest of us have the right to interfere and make sure our laws are obeyed. When we put into law: one shall not murder another…we didn’t mean unless your culture allows it…….and when our law says, “YOU MUST BE A CITIZEN to enjoy the rights of this country…..that is what it means……you obey the laws to reap the benefits of this country………now you may say why would I include (in relevance to this story) ‘not commit murder’?…..well when we allow SOME to enjoy the rights of this society without being a citizen….then those who commit heinous crimes will eventually be allowed to do whatever they want (killing your own family because it violates your culture and you are off scott free because you don’t want to adhere to American laws). Once this all infiltrates this last free land of the world then it is OVER.
Report Post »Ira WIlson
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:47amI’d like to see things from your point of view but, thankfully, I can’t fit my head up my a**!
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:18amWow. What public school did you go to? Oh, I’m sorry, Obama is probably your hero. Heres to your so called “hope and change!”
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:20amThis comment is exactly backwards of the actuality in my opinion.
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:42amKeys??!!
Secret language?
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 3:36amWhat on earth does this story have to do with Glenn Beck? Do you think he writes these articles? If anyone plays the race card – again and again and again – it’s the Liberals. Actually, other than responding to Liberals and their hypocrisies, I don’t hear Conservatives talk about race hardly at all.
Democrats use the race card to create voting blocs.
1- KKK was created to oppose Republicans turned racist because blacks were voting Republican
2- Racist Internment camps (Woodrow Wilson and FDR – Democrats)
3- Segregation (Woodrow Wilson – Democrat)
4- Jim Crow Laws – Democrats
4- Civil Rights Act of 1957 introduced by Republican Eisenhower (blocked by mostly Democrats)
5- Lyndon Johnson (racist) convinces Democrats to pass Civil Rights Act of 1964 to create a black voting bloc. LBJ quote: “I’ll have them n*g**s voting Democrat for 200 years.”
6- Jesse Jackson gets rich demonizing whites.
I’m not saying all Democrats are racist nor that all Republicans are not, but at least Republicans don’t have a history of it.
Report Post »freedomisvital
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 3:52amPlease,PLEASE take your meds!
Report Post »proudpatriot77
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:31amDid I miss the part of the story involving Glenn Beck?….hmmm someone sounds paranoid.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:10amWhat?
Report Post »LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:02am@proudpatriot77
I thought I saw Glenn in the brawl but I could be wrong. Oh, I get it. Glenn was disguised as the pitcher who threw at Victorino hoping to start the fight.
@marybethelizabeth, you’re an idiot. Get out of here troll! >.<
Report Post »StargazerInSavannah
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 4:01pmI can’t imagine that you have enough knowledge that you would be able to tell anyone anything! Before one can impart information or knowledge to another they must in fact know something.
Report Post »Your ignorance identifies you as someone incapable of imparting knowledge or information to anyone.
Ohello
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:13pmThis is far to important an allegation to let slip by without an investigation. Appoint an independent investigator and make certain they report their findings to the DOHS and the congressional investigatory committee.
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:59pmWe can’t do that. No room in the budget for independent investigators. Do you know any that will work pro bono?
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:21amIf Ramon Ramirez says he‘s legal and couldn’t play MLB if he weren’t, then that is good enough for me.
Report Post »Ohello
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:09pmIf he is illegal alien, collect all his pay as a tax on the wealthy, and deport his butt.
Report Post »Libby Tarian
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:59pm” How would I be able to work here if I were an illegal?”
Report Post »That was a very inane comment Ramirez…what is it 14,000,000 illegals here sucking up all the money and causing a huge debt crisis. They get free educations, free food stamps, free medical, and they have places here that they sell plates of food out of their front doors. Forget lemonade stands these people are selling home cooked food and putting it in styrofoam containers and selling them.
He should know better than to say that. He may be legal who knows?
SUPPLY_SIDE
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:02amNot saying he is an illegal, but it raises suspicion and doubt when someone answers a question with another question.
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:43amHe said in MLB.
Report Post »JohnnyGalt
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:53pmhttp://footofatlas.blogspot.com/
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:33pmYawn …
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:02pmDon’t worry. I was talking to God and he told me the big one is coming soon. No more SF.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:08pmThe architecture and landscape is there. Would be a shame to lose that. Otherwise it’s a wasteland. Fall into the sea old city by the bay.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:12pmsorry… “is beautiful there….”
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:49amPlease stop talking about my city that way! most of the real San Franciscans (conservative in our bent) live around the Bay but not in the city. Just so you know.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:58pmReferring to someone as an illegal alien is racist? No. Thinking that only people with a Spanish last name, is racist (whatever the fart that means). Just stick to sports, you moron.
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:50amYou got it!! I agree.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:55pmIs he here illegally? Ramirez is foreign-born, but what is his residency status?
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:02pmWhether he’s an illegal alien or a legal US citizen, Bochy needs to let this kind of jibber jabber roll off his back like water on a duck. Geez man…. get over it! People are hyper sensitive these days!!
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:05pmAlso, if you see Bruno’s comment, he was obvously spewing off a rant and probably used the term “illegal alien” not necessarily in a literal term, but in a way ALL of us use phrases hyperbolically.
Report Post »Berealalready
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:06pmWith all of the big money MLB teams have for lawyers it is safe to assume if you are playing in any MLB sanctioned game, including minor league farm clubs, you are here legally. There are real immigration issues to discuss, this is a joke and a distraction.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:11pmThat’s not necessarily true.
Report Post »Jose Contreras was a Cuban defector. I don’t think he became a US citizen just as immediately as he defected, but I could be wrong.
decendentof56
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:27pmJJ Coolay….
Report Post »The hypersensitivity you speak of is a result of the Dem-Progressive politically-correct tactics of the last 50 years. Defacto silencing of freedom of speach thru false accusations of racism has been the MO of the left for how long now?
John Kerry is a prime example of this through his trashing of the Tea Party. Notice how the left accuses TP’ers of being terrorists, but yet hesitate to call radical Muslim’s terrorists. It’s classic Sol Alinsky. Just deamonize without any proof. If you hear it enough, you may actually believe it. Kerry should be tried as a traitor. I suppose Ma. will re-elect him. What idiots!
101
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:36pmThere’re so many in San Francisco illegally that when you use the words “illegal alien” you’re correct 90% of the time, guess he was one of the 10% here legal….Ooops take back the tweet.
Report Post »ConstitunalAmerican
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:47pmWell, Is He?? Everyone and their brothers are said to be racist by the isms so much that it has little value anymore, like d_m. All this person is doing is to deflect from his own ineptitude or gain attention.
Report Post »Stewie
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:43pmWhat race are Dominicans? Surprised anyone is coming to his defense since his race is also Republican.
Report Post »PelositheGreat
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:42pmguest pitcher, kind of like a guest worker….?
Report Post »Seabee79
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:34pmHey Bochy. one simple question is Ramon Ramirez an illegal immigrant or not??? pretty cut and dry to me are the SF Giants employing illegal immigrants or not.
Just because someone ask the question does not mean it’s racist.
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:53amI think it’s ignorant of a sports announcer if indeed MLB requires people to be legal. Ignorant and inflammatory.
Report Post »StargazerInSavannah
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 3:56pmHe isn‘t a ’illegal immigrant’! If he is illegal, he is not a immigrant, he is a illegal alien. Most if not all professional ball players are here as ‘legal aliens’ and are not generally immigrants. Many baseball players from Cuba and Venezuela have entered seeking political asylum and become ‘legal’ aliens as soon as asylum is granted.
Report Post »If one enters the country illegally, they are then illegal aliens, never ‘illegal immigrants’. If one overstays their visa they are still aliens and still illegal.
RepubliCorp
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:28pmNow this is racist
Report Post »http://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp
SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:19pmUsing their twisted logic,if you call someone from Sweden who is illegally in America an illegal alien,you would be a racist….i guess?
Report Post »HD Veteran
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:16pmCalling him an illegal alien is to put upon the pitcher in question a legal status.
Not racist. Insensitive? Maybe.
The term ‘racist’ has lost all meaning — those who make this claim more often than not are using it to control a conversation or elicit a specific response from the person they oppose.
Report Post »DEConservative
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:14pmHe’s right, Ramon Ramirez is an illegal immigrant twit…and Bochy is a thug…they threw at Victorino because the Phils were hammering their asses…what a bunch of LOSERS…they fit in well in San Francisco…with the rest of the losers.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:14pmAt least he apologized. That’s way more than the lib tards out there who call us Tbaggers.
Report Post »jimtrees
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:09pmWhat’s Victorino?
Report Post »BillyPenn
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:05pmHe is an American, born & raised in Hawaii.
Report Post »Berealalready
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:08pmVictorino is from Hawaii
Report Post »Berealalready
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:13pmHe’s a real American Hawaiin, not some Kenyan Hawaiin! LOL JUST KIDDING, really.
Report Post »DEConservative
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:54pmVictorino is from the Flyin’ Hawaian tribe ;)
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:04pmWe all put our foot in our mouth sometimes, he said sorry, unless a pulic flogging is due, get on with your lives, it might be YOUR mouth, or blog next time.
Report Post »vinnymac46
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:02pm“We were as surprised as anybody to be honest.”… Of course this guy has to say this, otherwise he would be in jail right now for ordering his pitcher to “bean” another player. As far as Bruno’s comments I think he was wrong to say them but I will die defending his right to say it.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:11pmApology accepted. Now!!! Where is that Al Sharpton? It’s your turn.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:02pmpull the racist card out of your arse coward…sf must love you…freak
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:59pmso now add Illegal immigrant to the list of racial slurs…OMFG!!! Seriously, enough already
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:02pmBruce Bochy is a fool. He made the last pick for the All Star game a 4th catcher and not the 10 time All Star ALBERT PUJOLS because He got beat by the Cardinals 2 years in a row when He was a San Diego manager. HE’S A BIG BABY!
Also, The P.C. “Political Correctness” is killing only The USA. No other counrty has this problem.
Report Post »AmericanLass
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:07pmAbsolutely right, illegal is not a race. Insensitive yes, and he did apologize which is more than others can say about their remarks.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:41pmRamirez is not an illegal immigrant. He is here legally and pays his taxes. In fact, seeing as the guy is a millionaire living in California, he probably pays more in taxes than anybody else on this site excluding Glenn Beck. He’s a hard worker and better at what he does than 99.99 % of the rest of us. He’s living the American dream.
This remark was untrue, meant to injure or demean, and was based solely on his ethnicity. That pretty much fits the definition of a racist remark.
Report Post »DEConservative
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:53pmYea, I guess he’s alot better than me at being a bean ball pitching thug loser…so that’s one good point…but he isn’t a legal immigrant, he’s a resident of the Dominican Republic who gets special status to play baseball here…Because of his residency in the Dominican Republic he actually escapes most of our taxes…so that argument is out…and he’s a below average reliever…probably why Bochy didn’t mind losing him in the bean ball episode…
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:56pmWho cares? PC is killing us and the USA.
Report Post »HD Veteran
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:17pmRight.
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:22amYou know how to defeat PC, turn off the TV.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:56pmJust because you manage a team in a PC buttmunch town doesn’t me you have to be one.
Report Post »What a loser.