Ronan Tynan Jewish Joke: Yankees Pull Irish Tenor For Antisemetic Joke

NBC New York:

Irish tenor Ronan Tynan is belting out red-faced apologies today for alleged anti-Semitic remarks he made to a Jewish doctor looking at an apartment in his East Side building -- comments, he said, that were merely a joke.

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Comments

[hallowellboy]

The Yankees stink anyway.

[imworking4me]

They smell really sweet when they wipe the field with the Red Sox!

[JhNyc]

Its time for someone new anyway. His rendition never changed one whit. If its going to sound like a recording, might as well just play Kate Smith.

[David Vines - Huffpost Blogger]

Well, now how am I going to find time to take my traditional 15 minute bathroom break during the game?

[edwarvir]

Why is he making jokes with someone he
doesn't know in the first place. He was out of
order.

[ImissBush]

a rabbi a priest & a crack head walk in2 a bar

[ImissBush]

some of his best friends r jewish

how was he supposed 2 know tht she was a doctor??

jewish doctor in ny?? what r the odds

[w0rld0fw0rcraft]

thats despicable he was let go for such a tiny small thing. despicable.

[dct1999]

He's not entitled to sing for the Yankees.

The team is not going to ignore his big oted remarks. How stupid does a NYer have to be, to make these types of "jokes"? His out due to his own amazing level of stupidity.

[Deborah Paley]

That kind of comment is never a joke.

[susumar]

You're obviously not Jewish - it's depressing that anti-semitism is so alive and well. And how did the tenor know that the "scary" ladies were Jewish? Hmmmm? Sounds like the Yankees made a smart decision here.

[JhNyc]

Or maybe you're just clueless. Clueless.

[Rand]

Why do I suspect that, had the comment been aimed at whatever group of which YOU are a member, it wouldn't have been "a small tiny thing"

There's no such thing as acceptable bigotry!

[KarateKid]

I guess I saw his last performance. The lady who replaced her was very good. But, man, it was freezing in Yankee Stadium.

[Deborah Paley]

GO YANKEES!! Pettite on Monday!!