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(video via Cleveland Scene)

Kevin Kiley appeared with Tony Zarrella last night to discuss his comments about the Bills promoting a woman to a special teams coaching job. After he defended his comments, Kiley then revealed that he put in his resignation to 92.3 back in November and will be done at the station at the end of this month.

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As for Kiley- Did I ever think he should be fired for his comments about a woman having no place in football? Nope.

Did I disagree with it? Yep.

I’ll never ever ever ever call for someone’s job just because they said something I disagree with. I think that’s lame and the people on social media who make petitions that demand someone to be fired are the biggest losers on the planet. Is Kiley an idiot for saying that? Yep. It’s 2016 and he should have known what the blowback would be. Just because you disagree with something (no matter how dumb the person is that you disagree with is) doesn’t mean that they should lose their job and their livelihood.

That said, good riddance.

Let’s hope now that Ken Carman can do his own thing and make mornings bearable again.

As you can see- we’ve never been big Kiley fans around here:

"Shit I only watched 10 minutes of the ECF last night, what can I talk about?? Oh I know, let's talk about firing the coach"

-Kevin Kiley

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) May 27, 2015

Pssst Kiley, Bryan Shaw doesn't throw a curveball

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) September 2, 2015

Kevin Kiley just asked if pretty women know less about football than ugly troll-like women. This guy is the best

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) September 2, 2015

Kevin Kiley just asked a caller if Francisco Lindor was a positive or a negative for the Cleveland Indians

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) October 1, 2015

Kiley joking about not knowing the Indians season is done is actually funny because it's completely believable

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) October 5, 2015

Macedonia = "Mack-a-doan-i"

Kevin Kiley, ladies and gentlemen.

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) January 14, 2016

Via Cleveland Scene

It wasn’t long before the Twitter rumors were confirmed by a source to Scene this morning.

Chuck Booms, who did his show on 92.3 The Fan this morning, was indeed fired by the station.

That’s all we got for now. When we hear more, we’ll update here. We reached out to Booms and 92.3 management but haven’t received a response yet.

.@923TheFan program director Andy Roth confirms that Chuck Booms is out. The station hopes to announce his replacement soon. Kiley staying.

— Kevin Kleps (@KevinKleps) May 7, 2015

This is a sad day for Cleveland sports radio. I know a lot of people in town don’t like Booms but I always got a kick out of him. Sure sometimes he’d make me want to slam my head against the wall or force me to change the station every now and then. But he always kept things interesting. He wasn’t one of the boring cookie cutter radio hosts like Mike & Mike or Baskin & Phelps. He told you what was on his mind no matter if it was politically correct or not. You have to respect that. He was a Clevelander through and through and you could feel that in his voice every morning from 6-10.

Exhibit A: His recent interview with Dan Shaughnessy

Today was a big loss for the anti-PC crowd.

Goodnight, Sweet Prince.

Update: Here’s what Booms had to say

Booms: "I'm shocked, and I'm sad, extremely sad. And most of all I'm sad for the fans of the show." (cont)

— Vince Grzegorek (@vincethepolack) May 7, 2015

Booms: "Because when you're a standup, the reason you get into it is because of the people that go and enjoy what you do." (cont)

— Vince Grzegorek (@vincethepolack) May 7, 2015

Booms: "To have this happen, it's rough. I'm grateful for the four years we had, but this came way out of left field."

— Vince Grzegorek (@vincethepolack) May 7, 2015

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