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SANTA FE, N.M. — � e New Mexico Legislature adjourned � ursday without a plan on how to � nance public schools and state government in the coming year, marking the � rst time in 26 years that lawmakers � nished a regular session without reaching a budget deal.

Shortly after lawmakers wrapped up their 30-day session, Gov. Bill Richardson announced a spe-cial session to deal with the state

budget would open Wednesday. A special session will cost about $50,000 a day.

“New Mexico taxpayers want a solution. � ey don’t want to wait,” said Richardson. “We don’t need another month or two of indeci-sion. I think it’s important that we move as rapidly as we can.”

Marc Saavedra, director of gov-ernment relations at UNM, said the House and the Senate could have created a budget if they’d just had another day or so.

“� ey ran out of time. I think they were close,” he said. “With a little bit more time, they should be able to bridge that between the gov-ernor, the Senate and the House.”

Also, Saavedra said the House and Senate negotiated their

proposed tuition credit increases.He said, initially, the House

wanted to increase the tuition cred-it by 6 percent for in-state students and 15 percent of out-of-state stu-dents. Now, the House cut its rec-ommendation to 4 percent for both in- and out-of-state students.

He said the Senate decided on the same plan except for a 5 percent increase for out-of-state students.

As it stands, UNM main campus is looking at between a 2.6 percent and 2.9 percent cut, he said.

However, the House and Sen-ate could adjust these cuts and in-creases during the special session.

House Speaker Ben Lujan, D-Santa Fe, said the Senate and

by Pat LohmannDaily Lobo

UNM President David Schmidly unveiled Wednesday the list of stu-dents, faculty and administrators who will make up a new team of advisers.

Schmidly asked Faculty Senate leadership — but not GPSA and Sta� Council — for a list of possible can-didates for the team. Faculty Senate President Doug Fields said he sub-mitted a list of faculty he wanted to be on the team as well as adminis-trators he wanted o� it.

“We gave him a list of faculty that should be on it and administration that should not be on it, and he took some of the suggestions and didn’t take others,” Fields said.

Fields would not say who was on the list.

� e � rst-ever team — known as the President’s Strategic Advi-sory Team — is supposed to help Schmidly cut costs and evaluate University processes through means separate from the traditional chan-nels, like student and faculty gov-erning bodies.

President Schmidly was not avail-able for an interview on Wednesday and late � ursday. However, the President’s O� ce put a tab on its

Web site about the team with a dia-gram showing means of dialog with the UNM administration.

Also, members of the UNM com-munity are encouraged to give sug-gestions about University gover-nance and cost containment on the Web site.

� e diagram on the site indicates that the advisory team is separate from the governing bodies.

However, that didn’t stop GPSA President Lissa Knudsen and Sta� Council President Elisha Al-len from tossing their names in for consideration.

Knudsen said the team Schmid-ly created does not consist of “loyal opposition.”

“My big concern is that I don’t think he’s reaching out to the part of the community that has been feel-ing like they haven’t been heard,” Knudsen said. “If he had done that, I think that would’ve been a great way to bring those groups who have been

by Mario TrujilloDaily Lobo

Written into the ASUNM govern-ment’s constitution is a clause that automatically allots 8.5 percent of its budget to Student Publications.

� e ASUNM Steering and Rules Committee passed a resolution ask-ing for help to foot the bill.

In a resolution that will go before the full ASUNM senate next Wednes-day, the Graduate and Professional Student Association, the Faculty Sen-ate and Sta� Council are all asked to help out with funding.

“With this resolution, I am taking this from kind of a student publica-tion board perspective,” Sen. Alicia Barry said. “I was very alarmed to � nd the GPSA, the Faculty Senate and Sta� Council do not contribute the way we do, and I would like to see their par-ticipation with that.”

� e ASUNM allocation for Student Publications is an estimated $57,212.

Student Publications is an um-brella organization for the Daily Lobo, Conceptions Southwest and Best Student Essays.

ASUNM is funded by the un-dergraduate student body. Every

full-time student gives $20 in student fees to it. Part-time students pay a fraction of that.

ASUNM Sen. Sean Mallory said these organizations should support an outlet — the Daily Lobo — that they all use.

“I think that over the last couple weeks, organizations have been pret-ty active in where their student fees are going,” Mallory said. “And it seems kind of unfair that the outlet they are using to attack our organization is something we fund entirely.”

Yet, not all of the government bud-gets can fund Student Publications.

Elisha Allen, president of the Sta� Council, said that the council’s bud-get is miniscule. � at takes into ac-count one sta� member, some sup-plies and a sta� picnic. All the other members are volunteers. He said helping to fund Student Publications would entail a layo� .

“We couldn’t fund a lot with-out killing our whole operation,” said Richard Wood, Faculty Senate president.

� e Faculty Senate budget is “pret-ty tiny,” Wood said.

Vivian Valencia, University secretary, said the Faculty Senate’s budget is estimated at $55,122 for � s-cal year of 2010.

Schmidly’s advisory team shuns Staff Council, GPSA

ASUNM wants help funding publications

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critical and who are feeling not heard. Having them at the table would have sent a very strong message.”

Of the 20 people on Schmid-ly’s team, there is one graduate and undergraduate student and three professors. The rest of the team con-sists of deans and administrators. None are Staff Council members.

Allen said he’s concerned about there not being staff representation on the team.

“I volunteered myself, but I didn’t have any response to that,” he said. “I feel like over the last nine months I’ve really worked hard to try and bridge the gap between staff and administra-tion, and it doesn’t really feel like that bridge has been crossed yet.”

Allen said without staff, it’d be dif-ficult for the president and his team to feel the impact of scenarios they may recommend.

“I think the most obvious (perspec-tive) is the one of somebody who’s not working in Scholes Hall or in a high administrative level, kind of the per-spective of the impacts of the vari-ous changes that are being discussed might have on somebody just work-ing on their desk at the University,” he said.

He also said governance groups on campus — even though they’ve al-ready got established channels when speaking with the administration — can help campus populations be bet-ter represented.

“If you’ve got already representa-tive groups on campus that are tasked with representing the needs and in-terests of their constituents, then you have the ability to get those people to reach out to their constituents and bring those thoughts and opinions to the table,” Allen said.

While Fields said it’s ultimately the president’s decision to appoint whom-ever he deems fit, the ultimate goal of the team might suffer without better faculty and staff representation.

“This is an advisory team, so the president should have whatever peo-ple he wants on there as his advis-ers,” he said. “I think that the staff and the administration bring important knowledge to the table. The question is how you balance the administrative and other nonacademic missions of the University with the academic mis-sions, so in that sense I’d always like to see more faculty and staff on there.”

When Schmidly first announced the team, Fields suggested the team report, both to Schmidly and him-self, include more faculty and fewer administrators.

He said Schmidly refused a team comprised of more faculty.

House were unable to bridge their differences over increasing taxes to balance the budget. Legislative leaders tried to negotiate a deal to plug a hole in the budget with rev-enues from gross receipts, income and cigarette taxes.

House Republican Whip Keith

Gardner of Roswell summed up the feelings of his GOP colleagues: “We’re frustrated.”

“We were sitting here for a pur-pose, which was the budget, and everything else should have taken a back seat,” he said.

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Democrats said they were able to make some progress in the waning hours and believe they will have a good place to start when the special session resumes next week.

Pat Lohmann contributed to this report.

The only other organization with a budget comparable to ASUNM, of $763,983, is the GPSA council, which has an estimated 2009-10 budget of $341,116.

President of GPSA Lissa Knud-sen said she isn’t against the idea of helping split the funding. The under-graduate population makes up about 19,000 students. The graduate popu-lation is about 6,600 students.

“I’m not completely opposed to funding the Daily Lobo, because obviously graduate students read the Daily Lobo,” Knudsen said. “It’s just a

matter of how much.”The Student Publications Board

does not only fund the Daily Lobo.According to the 2009-10 Student

Publications Board budget, Concep-tions Southwest and Best Student Es-says are funded almost solely from ASUNM and GPSA. GPSA contrib-utes $1,350 to each magazine. The Student Publications Board allocates approximately $5,800 to each maga-zine from the ASUNM allotment.

The other approximately $40,000 from ASUNM government goes to the Daily Lobo. That comes out to about

5.3 percent of the total $749,500 Dai-ly Lobo budget for 2009-10.

Business manager of the Daily Lobo, Jim Fisher, said that while the ASUNM funding is crucial and makes a statement that the students support the paper, it isn’t large enough to cre-ate a conflict of interest when cover-ing ASUNM.

“I think the amount makes it not a real conflict,” Fisher said. “If they were providing 70 or more percent of our budget, it might have been more of an issue, but at this point, it is not an issue.”

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Editor,In response to Kallie Red-Horse’s inter-

view of Kathleen Kelley for “Mayor thinks he can kill property crime,” I cannot believe

those words came out of Kathleen’s mouth. Honestly, how can someone believe that a student (poor or otherwise) has the propen-sity to steal?

I can assure you as a “poor” student, that even though I struggle daily, I have no wish to take from another person. The thought never even arises.

Kathleen, you obviously have very little

experience with people in general. Just be-cause someone is “poor” doesn’t mean that they are likely to steal. I am sure there are plenty of cases out there that involve a “well-to-do” individual stealing just because they can (or for the thrill).

Clifford MaddenUNM student

Editor,I am writing this letter in response to Patri-

cia Roybal-Caballero’s letter “Hispanic Educa-tion Act will close academic gap in NM.”

While there is a huge achievement gap between Hispanic students and other ethnic groups, the passing of this legislation is ignor-ing the problems faced by every other ethnic group in New Mexico.

I have the rare position of being a dual en-rollment student with UNM, and also take an algebra class at Albuquerque Evening High School. There should be blame placed on the schools, but this bill fails to properly address other issues.

The first issue is that many students in New Mexico fail to see the importance of an edu-cation, not just Hispanic students. Often times in my night class, the students are busy talking on the phone and trying to do anything other than class work. This is not the teacher’s fault, since she tries in every way to make algebra easily understandable. Placing more focus on a student’s future and the education would be of great benefit.

The second issue is that there aren’t many educational resources available to poorer stu-dents. Most of my high school teachers have tried to fit all the topics to be covered, but not all students learn at the same pace. The teach-ers end up spending more time on a specific topic, which means that a few others must be left out.

If the funding put towards closing the His-panic achievement gap were instead placed towards tutoring and other educational help, a broader group of students would be helped, instead of one specific ethnic group. A system that mirrors UNM’s CAPS could help ease the achievement gap.

The third issue is that the parents need to become more involved in their student’s ed-ucation. The legislators can funnel as much money as they would like into the schools, but without proper follow up at home, the achievement gap will stay as it is. If parents took extra steps towards making sure their student is completing their work and under-standing the material, the schools’ efforts will have a greater impact on the students.

Education should not be a matter of race or ethnicity. We as a society cannot progress towards equality while passing legislation aimed at one group.

Hispanic students can greatly empow-er themselves, not by receiving special focus only available to them, but by taking the reins of their own education and seeking out the same help everyone else deserves.

There is a Hispanic achievement gap, but by passing ethnic specific legislation, we are ignoring the greater problem.

Ashley DornedenUNM student

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by Chris QuintanaDaily Lobo columnist

Like every other sane person, I would like to burn my eyes out with hair spray ev-ery time someone updates their status with a vague combination of nouns and adjec-tives that might as well say, “Ugh! Look at me feeling emotions right now! Look at my emotion!” but with a thousand more excla-mation marks because their feelings are just that intense.

I despise Facebook as much as the next person. I agree the thousands of fan pages for inane stuff like, “I bet I can find seven people who support giving dinosaurs the right to vote,” or “Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs” are ridiculous. I literally want to strangle myself with the mouse. Don’t forget similar groups for support of odd quirks such as, “I spend time in the show-er getting the right temperature I want,” which only serves to validate a person’s need for knowing he or she is not a com-plete freak. And no, none of these groups are made up.

Facebook sucks, and the general popu-lace has accepted this fact.

However, there are a select few whose entire lives are lived in on Facebook. They rise early to harvest their virtual crops, clean out their imaginary poo in fish tanks or find out which Twilight character they are bound to fall in love with.

The Facebook leeches attach them-selves to the unfortunate victim. They send them a whole barrage of comments, vam-pire bites and mafia hits. There’s nothing wrong with these people. They are just in-herently awful, and nothing can be done about it, just like the UNM e-mail system.

A greater threat is growing in the

Facebook community. There are the half leeches. They are the

sort of person that’s almost on Facebook as much as the full-blown leeches, but un-willing to admit their abominable nature. And these half leeches are the worst — they love to complain about Facebook.

They are tittering with excitement on the inside because more than they love spending time on Facebook, which is pret-ty huge, they love having something to complain about more.

These people love complaining, and worst of all they don’t leave Facebook on the Internet. They drag it into the real world and bother unsuspecting individu-als who are trying to do normal things like eat or read.

I am not one to point out problems without offering solutions. Some answers for the people complaining about Face-book are:

1) Fly to Africa, and take up the an-cient craft of ostrich riding with an ancient tribe that never dismounts their ostriches and continuously wanders the Savannah fiercely guarding the craft. The would-be ostrich rider not only have to track down the riders, but also gain their trust. This process will probably take 10 or 15 years, so the Facebook complainer would be oc-cupied for a good while. The best part of this scenario? The Facebook complainer, and now ostrich rider, cannot make a Face-book fan group because all of its members don’t have technology.

2) Fly to the Himalayas, become a Bud-dhist and achieve a degree of inner peace. In doing so, the Facebook complainer will transcend the need to complain and worry about Facebook. The only thing you have to worry about at this point now is another

Buddhist talking about how awesome in-ner peace is.

3) Join PETA, and spend all your free time throwing blood on fur coats. Fright-en children with violent images of dis-membered chickens in unhappy meals. Also make demands Punxsutawney Phil be freed from his weatherman servitude. The Facebook complainer will be so busy flying off to Alaska to stop the clubbing of baby seals that they wouldn’t have time to com-plain about Facebook. The only issue with this solution might involve the complainer talking about animal cruelty all the time, which is maybe on par with complaining about Facebook.

Notice all of these solutions involve the Facebook complainers flying somewhere, and that’s the most important thing. Re-moving them from your personal sphere and then occupying their time with mean-ingful adventure — everyone wins. Except for the people who complain about people who complain about Facebook — they’ll probably never be happy anyway.

“I’ll keep talking and maybe you’ll just get it.”

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It seems like just yesterday Hon-eycutt was at Las Cruces High School, then Central Arizona College, un-refined and on edge, chasing balls down in the dirt — something Cava-zos-Galvez would do.

Birmingham said Honeycutt is reminiscent of Cavazos-Galvez.

“He wants to hit homers too much sometimes, and he’s not a home run hitter,” Birmingham said. “He can hit them, but he’s a great line-drive hitter. He can hit for a high average. That guy was leading the country in hitting for three quarters of the year last year — stupid numbers.”

They’re on parallel tracks, which frequently crisscross, Honeycutt, a shade of Cavazos-Galvez.

Birmingham sees — as if preor-dained — what Honeycutt can be, be-cause he’s seen what Cavazos-Galvez is.

So what does he do?“You gotta ride them like a rid-

den mule,” Birmingham said. “I don’t know how many times I made (Cava-zos-Galvez) run to the airport and back. During practice, ‘Drop your crap. Head to the airport.’”

Honeycutt, too? Honeycutt, too, Birmingham said.

Airport jaunts, blistering batting sessions later, Cavazos-Galvez is now —

“MVP and can be on the Dodg-ers in one or two years,” Birmingham

said. “And Honeycutt’s the same type of kid. He’s going to get drafted, be-cause he’s a great hitter. He’s built like a brick.”

But bricks can be brazen.Like Cavazos-Galvez, Honeycutt

acknowledges he routinely bristles with bouts of rage — though it nev-er reared its head last year, at least at home.

“You weren’t at New Mexico State last year,” Honeycutt said, grinning. “Hometown people saying things from the other team. I’ve never been one to back down from anybody. Last year, it got out of hand and the begin-ning of this year. I just realize there’ll be another pitch, another day. It’s ei-ther one extreme or another for me. Either I get really mad, and I play re-ally well after that, or get mad and I can’t do anything.”

Birmingham couldn’t care less. He broke Cavazos-Galvez; he can break Honeycutt.

“You gotta stay on him like a dad,” Birmingham said. “If he doesn’t take the trash out when I tell him, “Take the trash out,’ then he’s got hell to pay.”

Those hellish sessions, nothing but bludgeoned, balky balls humming to-ward batters, paid off for Cavazos-Galvez.

And, if he does them right, Honey-cutt will benefit from them, too.

They’re good,” Honeycutt said. “Coach B always humbles you.”

senior third-baseman, Adam Courcha, found New Mexico all the way from Australia.

He has bought into Birming-ham’s system and said the whole MWC is starting to do the same.

“Over the last couple years, un-der Coach Birmingham, he has earned a lot of respect in the con-ference just because of what he has done,” Courcha said. “And that has shown in this preseason poll.”

But Courcha said the team still has room to improve.

“At the end of the day, we are still

not the front-runner,” Courcha said. “TCU has got the tiger on their back, and we have been chasing them for years now. We need to make that change and get up there.”

Courcha, who has played near-ly every position in the infield, said he’ll put trust in his coach to take them there.

“I know my role,” Courcha said. “I am not the (Ryan) Honey-cutt, the (Rafael) Neda or the big guys. Whatever Coach Birming-ham needs me to do, I’m there for him.”

down there and finally play some-one different,” Willett said. “What better way to do that than to go into No. 1 and go down there (to Austin) and test where we are as a team right away?”

Now that the telling has been told, we’ll see if the Lobos show what needs to be shown.

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Daniel Gonzalez puts full-force power in the batting cage during practice on Wednesday at Isotopes Park.

Head coach wants NM to be known for baseballby Mario Trujillo

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Head UNM baseball coach Ray Birmingham said he will chew the ears o� the competition on the � eld.

And in interviews, he will talk the ears o� reporters about two things — New Mexico and baseball.

“I have been coaching a long time in this state, the greatest state in the union,” Birmingham said. “And I want to make this program bring pride to the whole state of New Mexico.”

So far, he has kept his word. Birmingham led the last two

Lobo teams to two second-place � nishes in the Mountain West Con-ference, tallying 71 combined wins over the past two seasons.

Not bad considering those two teams were picked to � nish in � fth

and fourth, respectively, in the MWC preseason polls.

� e Lobos’ over-performance isn’t di� cult to explain, Birming-ham said.

“We have a feisty attitude,” he said. “We are going to get beat. It is going to happen. But you know what? We are still going to come back and try to whip your tail the next day. We don’t care. You can knock us down. You can kick us, and we are going to come back and chew your ear o� the next day.”

� at feistiness has paid well in wins, and now if only it would pay in dollars, Birmingham said.

“Look at that,” he said, point-ing around the Lobos baseball � eld. “Look at that right there. � at is where we are at. Are there high schools with better stu� than that? A guy asked me on the radio today, ‘Is it hard to get pitchers here because

of the altitude?’ No! It is because of that.”

But Birmingham knew the facil-ities were less than stellar when he took the job, and his goal has always been to restore New Mexico base-ball and put it back where it belongs, he said.

“I’m not going to B.S.,” Birming-ham said. “I have got plenty of pas-sion for the state of New Mexico, and I took this job and took what would have been a major pay cut, because I had a great job out of baseball making � ve times more than I make here. I came here for one reason — and that is to make this baseball pro-gram to the level it deserves to be.”

Consider this a step in the right direction: In the preseason poll, the Lobos found themselves in a famil-iar position — No. 2 in the MWC. But this time it didn’t take a sea-son to work their way up, a sign to

Birmingham that the Lobos garner well-deserved respect.

But how can the Lobos make that leap to the front, surpassing jugger-naut TCU, which sits atop the MWC? More feistiness? Sure. A positive at-titude? Done.

Oh, and one more thing, Bir-mingham said.

“I need a nice ball park here, be-cause, one, I can have a place for the Lobos to play. Two, I can have a place for (Albuquerque Public Schools) to play their games with-out having to beg (Isotopes Park) and pay them $5,000 a day,” he said. “� en, I got to get it where I can play tournaments here every weekend. � e players will come here to play. Once you see Albuquerque, you fall in love with it in the summer.”

Even without a new park, one

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“Whenever and wherever” seems to be UNM head baseball coach Ray Birmingham’s unoffi-cial motto.

Anytime, anyplace, Birming-ham said he and his boys will play the best teams that college base-ball has to offer.

“I am proud to be a New Mexi-can, and I am going to go to Texas and tell them,” Birmingham said.

So tell ’em, Ray.The Lobo coach and his team

will have an opportunity to do just that when UNM opens up the season on the road against last year’s NCAA College World Se-ries runner-up, Texas. The three-game series is slated to start Fri-day at 2 p.m. and will finish up on Sunday.

The Longhorns are TheColleg-eBaseballBlog.com’s preseason favorite to win the College Base-ball World Series in June, and are, coincidentally, ranked preseason No. 1.

“I am putting them against the best teams in the country right away, and obviously Texas (is one of them),” Birmingham said. “And Texas is on the schedule because I jumped on it when an extra week got put on the schedule to start the year. I said ‘I am calling Tex-as.’ So, I called and I argued with them. But some of those guys are friends of mine and they were nice enough to put us on their schedule.”

UNM, according to the Texas’ probable pitching rotation, will have to face one of three of Texas’ stud pitchers, Taylor Jungmann.

Jungmann pitched in four games during the Longhorns run to College World Series Nation-al Championship game 2009. He posted a 3-0 record, while striking out 15 batters in only 15.1 innings pitched.

As if that wasn’t enough, Texas returns four pitchers from its 2009 pitching rotation.

Whatever you do, don’t ever doubt Birmingham’s mindset. The third year head coach has all the faith in the state of New Mexico in his own young pitching staff.

Mike Lachapelle, a new pitcher in the Lobos’ bullpen, is a junior college transfer from Pima Com-munity College in Arizona.

Lachapelle said he isn’t intimi-dated about going in front of 7,000 crazed Texas faithful fans at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

“It’s a lot different than junior college, that’s for sure,” he said. “I think we have a great team, though. I think that we are going to go in there and are definitely (going to) open up some eyes. We are going to shock Longhorn nation.”

Lobos’ left fielder Max Willett, who was named to the All-Amer-ican Preseason team alongside Rafael Neda and Ryan Honeycutt, wasn’t as deliberate in his state-ment, though the senior said he is eager to play Texas.

“Ah man, we are excited to get

Testing team strength vs. Texas

by Isaac AviluceaDaily Lobo

Behind a pitching screen, 30 feet from the plate, Lobo head coach Ray Birmingham stands protect-ed — a Kmart basket full of baseballs, all from dif-ferent walks of thread.

� ere’s the “old and beat up” ones that “run in on your hands,” said out� elder Ryan Honeycutt, the ones that “tail away from you” and the ones that “go even faster.”

And now, Honeycutt is next to step into the cage, next to be victimized.

� ere he is — straddling the left side of the plate, knees slightly bent, hands faintly choked up on the handle of the bat, the alternating zip of the ball leaving the machine, the echoic “ping” of the base-ball as Honeycutt makes contact and the ever-occa-sional thump of a ball hitting the backstop.

� e latter sound, that solid wallop, signi� es it’s time to take a seat on the pine. Honeycutt down — next batter up.

Honeycutt exits the danger zone, murmuring something to himself. He’s learned.

“You ain’t going to see anything dirtier than that,” Honeycutt said, pointing back toward the ma-chine. “Ooh, man, it’s fast — faster than any pitch I’ve ever seen. Coach doesn’t ever want us to get

beat by velocity.” When it comes to batting, Birmingham doesn’t

put up with mediocrity, Honeycutt said.“He’s particular. You gotta put it on the barrel or

you’re done. You miss it, you’re out,” he said.� is is the painstaking, and reigning, regimen

Birmingham employs, how he turns regular base-ball players into remarkable baseball players.

It’s the very process by which the UNM base-ball team led the nation in hitting. And it’s this very process which turned Brian Cavazos-Galvez into a 12th round pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers. It’s what helped him win the Most Valuable Player for the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League, an ad-vanced, MLB farm rookie league.

“I put them in a situation in there to show them, ‘You’re not that special,’” Birmingham said. “You’re only as good as you are today. Yesterday don’t mean nothing.”

And it seems like just yesterday Cavazos-Galvez was at Manzano High School, an uncooked talent, raw on emotion and impatient as hell.

“When I got him, he was 50 pounds overweight, he was a bad � rst baseman,” Birmingham said. “He struck out a lot and hit a lot of high � ys to right � eld.”

Young player mirrors former Lobo turned rookie

Junfu Han / Daily LoboRyan Honeycutt led the nation in hitting for much of the season last year. see Honeycutt page 5

see Feisty page 5

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