Glen Kuiper is about to start calling MLB games again.
The former Athletics broadcaster, who was fired in 2023 after using a racial slur on air, will be in the radio booth for the San Francisco Giants when the team plays an exhibition game against Team USA on Tuesday, according to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Kuiper, the younger brother of longtime Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper, will also potentially fill in on regular-season radio broadcasts for the Giants, per the Chronicle.
The incident that ended Kuiper’s time with the A’s came during a pregame show on May 5, 2023, when Kuiper happily spoke about his time visiting the Negro League Museum in Kansas City. However, he seemed to trip over the word “Negro,” and the result came out as a racial slur. He has insisted it was an accident.
Kuiper, who had worked as the play-by-play broadcaster for the A’s since 2006, was suspended indefinitely the next day and fired two weeks later. Per the Chronicle, an NBC Sports Bay Area investigation also uncovered a similar instance in August 2020 when Kuiper was discussing Negro League players while speaking with cardboard cutouts in the stands.
Kuiper has apologized multiple times for the incident, including in his response to his firing. He said in the same statement, “I will always have a hard time understanding how one mistake in a 20-year broadcasting career is cause for termination, but I know something better is in my future.”
Since then, Kuiper has spent his time on the outskirts of Bay Area baseball, hosting shows at Oracle Park’s Gotham Club with his brother after Giants home games last year and covering the Giants on a YouTube channel/podcast called “The Glen Kuiper Show.”
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