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Manny Ramirez may be banned from affiliated baseball in the United States, but he's still making a little bank and putting on a show, dreadlocks and all, in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan. Speaking of performance-enhancing drugs, what are the Taiwanese play-by-play guys on?

Now, we know. Last week, we showed you video of a play-by-play announcer going nuts (as in: kicked in the...) as Chicago's Marist RedHawks won on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer... He, and they, did it again -- Marist shredding its opponent, and announcer Brian Snow shredding his vocal cords.

Maybe it's the Chicagoland legacy of Harry Caray. Possibly John Belushi. Or, maybe they're just mixing Caray's and Belushi's respective favorites, beer and cocaine. Anyway you look at it, Chicago is breeding some amazingly over-the-top play-by-play announcers, and Marist High School is where they're cutting their teeth.

These kids rocked! All five of our finalists made it to the station to show us their Monster Truck Announcer routines, and all five did a great job! For their efforts, KLAQ and the Monster Jam gang gave them $20 game programs, monster truck plush toys, checkered flags and FOUR TICKETS EACH to the big show this...well, you know the rest.