NEW YORK (AP) -- Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez was reprimanded by the team's television network for "inappropriate" remarks during a broadcast about a female member of San Diego's training staff.
The former MVP first baseman said women "don't belong in the dugout" when he spotted 33-year-old Kelly Calabrese, the Padres' full-time massage therapist, high-fiving Mike Piazza in the dugout after he hit a home run during New York's 8-1 victory Saturday in San Diego.
After Hernandez found out later in the broadcast that Calabrese was with the Padres training staff, he repeated that she shouldn't have been there. "I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout," he said.
"Keith Hernandez made inappropriate comments regarding the presence of a female massage
therapist of the San Diego Padres who was in the dugout," SportsNet New York said in a statement Monday. "We immediately addressed the issue with Keith and reprimanded him, and he publicly apologized during Sunday's game."Hernandez said Sunday that he was sorry if he offended anyone.
Calabrese said Sunday that she was flabbergasted by Hernandez's comments.
"It's a little shocking but you know what -- it happens," she said. "He not only discredited me as a person, but he discredited women."
Padres chief executive officer Sandy Alderson also criticized Hernandez.
"Her competence and professionalism, not gender, are the important factors in her role with the club," he said Monday in a statement.
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In a related story, Hernandez has been accepted into the 'He-Man Women Haters Club' says HMWHC president George "Spanky" McFarland.
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