Detroit, Michigan – Racial insensitivity has occured yet again on live TV, as LA Angels' Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani has become the subject of very poor judgment call by a member of the Detroit Tigers’ broadcast team.

The Tigers won Tuesday night’s game against the Angels, but one of their TV broadcasters lost in the court of public opinion before the game was even over.

Former MLB pitcher Jack Morris (65) is the current color commentator for Bally Sports Detroit – the local TV carrier for Tigers games.

He dropped the ball when asked by his broadcast colleague Matt Shepard, "Now what do you do with Shohei Ohtani?"

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Morris casually replied, "Be very, very careful," with a belittling Asian-type accent.

Like another recent racially charged mishap at a baseball game, this also occurred live on television, but this time, there’s been no debate over what was said.

Ohtani was up to bat again late in the game, and Morris then took a moment to address his accented remark from three innings earlier.

"Well folks, Shohei Ohtani is coming to the plate and it's been brought to my attention, and I sincerely apologize if I offended anybody, especially anybody in the Asian community, for what I said about pitching and being careful to Shohei Ohtani," he said.

Obviously, someone else had to tell the 65-year-old where he went wrong.

"I did not intend for any offensive thing and I apologize if I did," he added.

It’s one thing to have said something for the sake of damage control, but by using the word "if," he seemed even less sincere.

He did flat-out offend people. And those people weren’t buying his half-hearted attempt at an apology.

Morris played for the Tigers for 14 years and won one of his four World Series rings as part of the 1984 championship team. He became a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee in 2018.