PGA Tour Radio Host Gets Fired For Saying He’d Rather Shoot Himself Than Watch WNBA

You just can’t say anything you feel like on Sirius XM.

Mark Lye, a former PGA Tour winner turned golf commentator, said Sunday he was fired from his role as a SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio host over comments he made a day earlier about the WNBA.

Lye’s comments came on Saturday’s episode of The Scorecard, during a discussion of the LPGA. A Twitter user captured and shared 59 seconds of the conversation:

“You know, the LPGA Tour to me is a completely different tour than it was 10 years ago,” Lye said. “… You couldn’t pay me to watch. You really couldn’t. Because I just, I couldn’t relate at all. It’s kind of like, you know, if you’re a basketball player — and I’m not trashing anybody; please, don’t take it the wrong way — but I saw some highlights of ladies’ basketball. Man, is there a gun in the house? I’ll shoot myself than watch that.

https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1490454226509737984

On Monday, Lye told a Twitter user that his comments went too far but were not fireable.

“I was terminated about comments made about the WNBA, which I apologized for starting the next segment,” Lye concludes.

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The fact that I can’t relate to WNBA does not make me sexist in any way. All you haters should listen to the whole segment, where I completely glorified womens golf, which I love to cover. Thanks for listening.

— mark lye (@letitflye) February 6, 2022

With cancel culture coming for anyone and everyone, you better think twice before you offend someone.

Apparently the WNBA is not to be tangled with.

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