Marcos Breton: Alou driven by duty, memory

Published 2:15 am PDT Monday, August 8, 2005
Story appeared in Sports section, Page C5

You know it's a cursed Giants season when their best
back-to-back wins of the year are drowned out by the
racially tinged rantings of radio talk-show host Larry
Krueger, who raved on KNBR he had tired of "brain-dead
Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly."

Wow. It seems Giants manager Felipe Alou, who is
Dominican-born and proud of it, dislikes pointed
critiques of his players when they suggest stupidity
from a single region - the Caribbean. In this case,
Caribbean means Dominican, Venezuelan,
Spanish-speaking, foreigner and Latin.

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