{"id":232465,"date":"2021-08-18T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=232465"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:31:42","slug":"former-twin-tigers-broadcaster-jack-morris-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=232465","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Broadcaster Jack Morris, Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MorrisJack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-232475\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MorrisJack-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MorrisJack-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MorrisJack-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MorrisJack-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MorrisJack.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Detroit Tigers broadcaster Jack Morris has been suspended indefinitely for racist comments made about Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani during Tuesday\u2019s game. When asked by play-by-play announcer Matt Shepard how the Tigers should pitch to Ohtani in the sixth inning, Morris adopted an exaggerated East Asian accent while saying \u201cbe very, very careful.\u201d When Ohtani came back up in the ninth, Morris issued a lengthy apology. Bally Sports Detroit announced the suspension Wednesday and said the 66-year-old Morris would undergo bias training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Detroit Tigers broadcaster Jack Morris has been suspended indefinitely for racist comments made about Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani during Tuesday\u2019s game. When asked by play-by-play announcer Matt Shepard how the Tigers should pitch to Ohtani in the sixth inning, Morris adopted an exaggerated East Asian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232476,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232465\/revisions\/232476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}