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One of baseball's greatest announcers ever, Ralph Kiner , has passed today 91.  Kiner is apart of the "Mt. Rushmore of Great Baseball Announcers and Broadcasters," with fellow long time partner, the late Bob Murphy, along with Vin Scully and Bob Uecker.  More on him and his remarkable career as a player (he hit 369 home runs in his career) and an announcer in a bit.  Enjoy from The Daily News from the terrific Bill Madden.  Original Version Fresh off the most embarrassing loss in a season that has just turned downright ugly, the Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has fired general manager Chris Grant. Grant takes the fall for one of the most disappointing teams in the league, as the Cavs look out of playoff contention even in the woeful Eastern Conference. The lack of anything from first round pick Anthony Bennett, the dismissal of Andrew Bynum from the team, the dysfunction and anger that both Kyrie Irving and Dion Waters have displaye...

Photo from Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images It should have happened before Game 6 with how they played so pathetically in Game 5 . It's unfortunate, but it wasn't surprising, not after the Cavs got run out by the Celtics in the second round, two rounds before they were supposed to be in the Finals. With everything at stake this summer with LeBron James, such an implosion couldn't occur without someone paying the price, and because there's no one left to trade, and no cap room to sign a big-time free agent, this was the last card the Cavaliers had left to play. There is only one question Dan Gilbert, who gave Brown the news Sunday in Detroit -- where Brown was watching his son play in an AAU tournament and where Gilbert lives -- can ask James Monday: Who do you want? Phil Jackson? Larry Brown? Pat Riley? Give me a name and I will try to get them. If Larry Brown comes to the Cavs (because I think Jackson will either stay with the Lakers or retire while Ril...

From the legend that is your other "in the moment" celebrity of the city, Mr. Mike Polk: Part 2 weirdly enough has the embed code off of it on Youtube, so maybe I'll get it up through some other video source.

Give the Cavaliers the title now : Amid reports of a three-way trade between Washington, Cleveland and the Los Angeles Clippers, Wizards forward Antawn Jamison has left the arena right before Washington's game with Minnesota. Washington would reportedly receive Cavs center Zyundras Ilgauskas and a first-round draft choice from Cleveland, along with forward Al Thornton and forward/center Brian Skinner from the Clippers. Jamison left the arena as the game was starting and declined to comment to reporters. After how nutty the Caron Butler for Josh Howard deal was for them, it made perfect sense for the Wizards to just blow up the team instead of insulting Jamison by letting him stay on a sorry team and deny him his first legitimate chance at a ring. But for Cleveland, this was the deal that everyone pointed to that they needed to make after Stephen Jackson was traded to the Warriors to the Bobcats. Jamison is more versatile than Amare Stoudamire and compliments LeBron James b...

At least you're not Detroit.....(though the Red Wings are trying to make it better, thankfully): Off to do somethings. The next post won't be until the early evening. Until then, enjoy the stuff from earlier here at TWD: How I still can't believe the idiot that is Politico's Roger Simon (and that whole site in general) Where are those Hispanic GOP strategists now? And, yes, if you need to read again that Rafael Nadal actually lost at the French Open . And on The Rational Online Network of Networks (just look below).

LeBron, take a back seat. You have nothing on Mike Polk and his genius: That TNT version didn't come up yet as of post time, sadly. I'll end it on that note. Have a great night and/or morning everyone. Update: HAHAHAHA, thanks to greendem at the Kos , I didn't know or even see that Polk did a second one. And it is even better! Who is this guy? Well, let him explain a little bit (it has a lot of weird, VERY weird moments, but hey, this guy is funny):