Racial Remarks Controversy
In 2003, he was terminated from his position as special assistant to General Manager Jim Duquette of the New York Mets following racially insensitive remarks made to Dodgers assistant general manager Kim Ng in which he mocked Ng's Chinese heritage. As widely reported by ESPN and the Los Angeles Times the exchange went as follows:
Singer: What are you doing here?
Ng: I'm working.
Singer: What are you doing here?
Ng: I'm working. I'm the Dodger assistant general manager.
Singer: Where are you from?
Ng: I was born in Indiana and grew up in New York.
Singer: Where are you from?
Ng: My family's from China.
Singer: Nonsensically mock Chinese, then "What country in China?"
He later apologized and blamed the Atkins diet and being drunk as the reasons for his remarks.
He was later hired by the Arizona Diamondbacks as a Major League scout in February 2005, with the Diamondbacks GM Joe Garagiola Jr stating "We satisfied ourselves by talking to him, to other people about him and doing a thorough background check." In November 2006, he was added to the Washington Nationals' scouting roster where he coordinates scouting operations in Asia.
Read more about this topic: Bill Singer, Post-playing Career
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