Radio sports personality fired over racist tweets.

Former major league pitcher Mike Bacsik was fired from his job as a Dallas sports radio producer/personality Tuesday, two days after he made a racially insensitive remark about "Mexicans in San Antonio" on Twitter.

Bacsik, a left-hander made famous by giving up Barry Bonds' 756th career home run, was fired by the station after his Twitter outburst, which came after Game 5 of the Dallas Mavericks-San Antonio Spurs series. Bacsik went on Twitter after the Mavericks' Eduardo Najera tackled Manu Ginobili and was ejected, saying "Congrats to all the dirty mexicans in San Antonio."

"It's been a rough couple of days," Bacsik told ESPNDallas.com Tuesday. "Obviously, I made a terrible mistake. It was very bad and stupid on my part. The last few days, I've been getting positive e-mails. But the station changed their mind and decided to go in a different direction."

Bacsik had been appearing on radio station KTCK.

"When you tweet like I did, you can't see the sarcasm," he said. "It's not a good joke. You can't tell if it was pure hate or sarcasm. I never got to say anything. My tweets were talking for me. When you tweet like that, it's not a playful, harmless thing. It's not what it was meant to be."

Bacsik, who originally was suspended indefinitely by the station, said that when the tweet went on national television, including CNN, the station decided to let him go.

"If you want to do a job like this, your guard always has to be up," he said. "It's tough because my guard was down. I learned my lesson. I'm owning up to what I did. I did a horrible thing. I'm very sorry and will try my best for my actions to speak louder than my tweets."

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Good ridance. Wassup with the brown people hate lately?

Yet another person falls prey to text's inability to show sarcasm

Learn your :P - faces, man!

Example:

I hate babies --- people would take this serious

I hate babies :P--- "Hey how can you- ooooh haha, he is joking" see? People get it

These things always amaze me, when the person who did it says "oops" and it was a mistake. When have you ever said something completely racist by mistake? Like it just slipped out of the ether and there was no thought process behind it. If someone can think it, then take the time to write it and share it publicly, it's not a mistake, it's just things someone says to manage the public damage afterward because they are afraid it will impact on them negatively.albatrossdrums

Sports radio is total garbage. Plain and simple.clubsammich91

I agree for the most part, but there's this Boers & Bernstein show in Chicago that I tune into almost every day because it's hilarious.

Sports radio is total garbage. Plain and simple.clubsammich91

Sweeping generalizations based on a single incident FTW.

That wasn't racist, it was a bad joke

Dirty didn't mean unclean, he meant it as unsportsmanlike

This is just like the flak that Matt Millen got over calling Jaws an "ol' Pollock" when they were talking about fried baloney sandwiches during the NFL draft. It was playing around. Still, he had to go back on camera later and apologize to everyone for saying it and then explain his relationship with Jaws

When someone means something racist it should be taken care of instantly, when someone reads things out of context it should be ignored.

I lived in San Antonio for three years...he pretty much hit the nail on the head, though it probably was not wise to tweet it.

[QUOTE="clubsammich91"]Sports radio is total garbage. Plain and simple.TaCoDuDe

Sweeping generalizations based on a single incident FTW.

Closet racists are coming out since Obama's president.

[QUOTE="clubsammich91"]Sports radio is total garbage. Plain and simple.TaCoDuDe

Sweeping generalizations based on a single incident FTW.

No aaaaallll of it is really overdone and there way too much nitpicking. Listening to the callers usually makes me want to kick something. Every ESPN radio show is so pointless. General radio talk is sometimes good.

Oh and the tweet. Stupid on his part but these things always make me giggle a little.

I lived in San Antonio for three years...he pretty much hit the nail on the head, though it probably was not wise to tweet it.

Elephant_Couple

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I lived in San Antonio for three years...he pretty much hit the nail on the head, though it probably was not wise to tweet it.

the_new_guy_92

I have plenty of friends who are Mexican, and yes I'm generalizing to a certain extent...but move to San Antonio and then tell me I'm wrong. You won't be able to.

I think if he didn't use the word "dirty", he would've been fine. But WTF was he thinking :|JML897

wow he called them dirty. that is sad. :|

That wasn't racist, it was a bad joke

Dirty didn't mean unclean, he meant it as unsportsmanlike

Jaysonguy

Are you sure that's not your interpretation of it, the words "Dirty Mexican(s)" have been used as a racial slur in the past.

tweeting: it's serious business.

That wasn't racist, it was a bad joke

Dirty didn't mean unclean, he meant it as unsportsmanlike

This is just like the flak that Matt Millen got over calling Jaws an "ol' Pollock" when they were talking about fried baloney sandwiches during the NFL draft. It was playing around. Still, he had to go back on camera later and apologize to everyone for saying it and then explain his relationship with Jaws

When someone means something racist it should be taken care of instantly, when someone reads things out of context it should be ignored.

Jaysonguy

That couldn't really be a sarcastic statement even if he did use emoticons. Anyway, good riddance.

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I lived in San Antonio for three years...he pretty much hit the nail on the head, though it probably was not wise to tweet it.

Elephant_Couple

I have plenty of friends who are Mexican, and yes I'm generalizing to a certain extent...but move to San Antonio and then tell me I'm wrong. You won't be able to.

Personally I don't agree with firing someone for something they did when not on the job.

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[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"] Wow....bobaban

I have plenty of friends who are Mexican, and yes I'm generalizing to a certain extent...but move to San Antonio and then tell me I'm wrong. You won't be able to.

[QUOTE="Elephant_Couple"]

[QUOTE="the_new_guy_92"] Wow....bobaban

I have plenty of friends who are Mexican, and yes I'm generalizing to a certain extent...but move to San Antonio and then tell me I'm wrong. You won't be able to.

Well yes. There are the drugs, crime, gangs, etc. There are also the countless Mexican families that show up at 24 hour Mexican restaraunts around 1 a.m., with their 6 or 7 children (all under the age of 10), barefoot, yelling at eachother, ordering machine margaritas while having their family dinner of...nachos.

By the way, mods, what I have just described is not in any way a stereotype or a racist exaggeration. When I was doing my post-grad legal program in San Antonio, I literally saw this happen more times than I can even remember. Not to say this is necessarily "dirty," but dirty is about the most accurate adjective you can come up with to describe it when you see it. "Trashy" might work also. I mean, seriously...come on :|

Don't get me wrong, San Antonio is also a very culture-rich, laid back city, and I enjoyed living there. There is just a certain demographic that unfortunately brings it down.