There’s a lot happening in the sports world right now.

Wade Phillips is out as the Cowboys’ coach. The Yankees are already talking with free agent pitcher Cliff Lee. The BCS is doing its thing. The Lakers are hot and the Heat are heating up.

But the biggest news won’t make the headlines. It won’t spark debate. In fact, people might not even become aware of it until next year.

The greatest duo in the history of announcing is retiring.

Scratch that. They’re being ripped apart.

Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, the hosts of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball for the past 21 years, will not be returning together next season. Both men have expiring contracts and ESPN decided not to renew Morgan’s. The network hasn’t reached a decision on what to do with Miller’s, yet.

What’s going on? Why would ESPN disband an announcing team that knows exactly what they’re talking about? I consider myself pretty baseball savvy and Morgan has brought things to light I would have never thought of – explained things to me like I was a preschooler. Which, compared to his knowledge, I am.

And I’m not the only one who thinks Jon Miller is spectacular. Earlier this year, he received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in recognition of broadcasting excellence. Others who have received this honor: Vin Scully, Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Bob Uecker and Curt Gowdy. Kind of a big deal.

So there it is. Two Hall of Famer’s (Morgan was inducted as a player in 1990) are gone. The two voices that brought me baseball growing up are gone.

Announcing baseball is an art, and these two men are modern-day Michelangelo’s. Miller lifts you up with his eloquent description and magnificent voice, while Morgan brings you back down with his excellent insights and wonderful analysis. A perfect combination.

Instead of watching a game on television, I preferred to listen to these voices on the radio. If I watched TV, the action was already there, laid out before me. No mystery, no suspense, no wonderment. But if I listened, Miller and Morgan brought me to a place where I developed the scene. I imagined what the players looked like. I saw the stadium, the fans and the field through my own eyes. And they brought that to me.

Now they’re gone. And according to nytimes.com, the legends are set to be replaced by Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser, who was brought into the Sunday Night Baseball booth last season, apparently for job training.

If I had known last year was Miller and Morgan’s last go-around, I would have recorded games. I would have recorded radio broadcasts. These men are baseball greatness. They deserve more than the 66-word statement of their release on espn.com.

They brought baseball into homes for 20-plus years; they deserve much more. I hope they get it.

I’m going to miss them.

Danny Meyer is the assistant sports editor for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Wednesday.