Philipe Alou is a cry baby. Fire him instead.

For those of us who attended and paid attention during our geography lessons, the Caribbean is a region, not a race of people. For those of you who were absent: the Caribbean is composed of approximately 7000 islands and is divided in to twenty-five regions. Its populace does contain "Dominicans, Mexicans and Venezuelans." as his son, Moises, has pointed out. But, it also has its fair share of whites, Spaniards, African-Americans, and several other races of people. So, one could hardly construe Larry Krueger's comments about how painful it is to watch a bunch of "brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly," as a racist remark.

Nor is it a stretch to believe that Philipe does indeed have "cream of wheat in his brain." All one has to do is watch how he continually changes pitchers at the first signs of trouble. Defending this behavior as "it's just his style," is both an excuse for poor management and an insult to the pitchers that he removes. I say it's high time to remove the manager and put someone who is a little more stable in his place. Dusty Baker takes this kind of flack with his morning tea and then comes out swinging.

Just because Alou is geographically challenged and has misunderstood Krueger's comments does not make him the poster boy for anti-racism. What his comments do make him is a hypocrite: "There's no way to apologize for such a sin." Since when are sins unforgivable? So much for following what the Bible teaches the true believers.

KNBR should be held accountable in the press for allowing this witch hunt to proceed as it has. This is, plain and simple, just sloppy journalism, and it's no wonder there are those who believe theEnglish language is on a down hill slide. If you can't understand the language, you certainly shouldn't be allowed to use it to publicly crucify someone who obviously has a better grasp of it the management of KNBR.

Those of you who are outraged by Krueger's comments are a disgrace to English students everywhere. So, pretty please with sugar on top, go back to school, try to study and for God's sake: take notes!