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VOLUME 59 ISSUE 16 APRIL 15, 2013

Last Friday the President’s cabinet met in the BIC to discuss the proposed 2013-2014 budget.

Many topics for discussion came up during the presentation by CCC Treasurer Diane Hutchinson, including many that are of great interest to the college’s students.

The President’s cabinet will review the

proposed budget and give it thumbs up or thumbs down in May.

If it’s thumbs up, Hutchinson will bring the budget to the finance committee of the CCC’s Board of Trustees and continue to work on it with them. The budget would be finalized in June pending full approval of the board, followed by Cayuga County in

July, and finally the State of New York in Au-gust.

The fitness center came up during the meeting when Hutchinson announced a brand new $15 fee for senior citizens who were previously using the fitness center for free.

“We do charge $15 for the course which al-lows you into the fitness center, we have a lot of people auditing that and we’re deciding whether we’ll be charging everyone $15. It could mean $5,000-$7,000 more in revenue,” Hutchinson said.

When Hutchinson was asked if this meant that students would finally be able to use the fitness center on demand, she responded with an emphatic “no”.

Another fee was discussed, this time com-ing from the classroom.

“The Science faculty asked if we could im-plement a $25 fee on Science courses that have a lab,” Hutchinson said. “Equipment has become very expensive, it can help sup-port keeping that up, so I’m going to ask for that.”

A popular idea that came up was a univer-sal college I.D. card. A loadable card where you could put your financial aid refund or your work study pay to spend it anyplace on campus.

The idea came in conjunction with an ear-lier wish of increasing color printing, with the thought being that students could swipe their cards and print off as many color pages as they’d like.

“We’re moving in the direction, with the new dorms, we’re looking at bringing in a new card system that we can load with finan-cial aid that would do things up to and in-cluding drying your clothes. You would scan your card, and it will text you when your clothes are dry,” John Taylor, Dean of Infor-mation Technology at Auburn said.

Taylor says some of these new technology systems will restrict students to only using their refunds on campus, preventing stu-dents from spending their college dollars on non-campus related items.

Another cabinet member worried about how much information would be stored on the card that could potentially be stolen.

On the Oswego County side of things, the old Broadway Street location for the Fulton campus is still operational, housing Com-munity Education, BOCES, and for about another month, Oswego County Social Ser-vices. BOCES will remain at Broadway for two years. In 2016, when the Broadway lease expires, the college will lose $350,000 in rev-enue but will gain an extraordinary $800,000 in lost expenses.

In coming years, the chargeback revenue from Oswego County may eclipse the direct allocation from Cayuga County to CCC.

Cayuga County gives CCC about 9% of the college’s operating budget, nearly $3 million.

In recent years Oswego County charge-back revenue has been creeping up, this year it will be at $2.6 million.

“That’s a real interesting dynamic when the chargeback revenue from a single county for the branch campus becomes larger than the direct allocation from the local sponsor,” said CCC President Dan Larson.

The popular complaint has been that New York State hasn’t contributed to education as much as they should be. Others believe it may be time to put a little more pressure on Cayuga County, because as was mentioned in the meeting, Oswego County doesn’t have a community college.

President Larson mentioned to the cabi-net that there was a combined $4.7 million in special funding for community colleges just floating around.

Campus leaders discuss budgetBy Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

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In 2011, the College created the SUNY Educational Network to Grow Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ENGINE), a consortium of educational partners,

economic development groups, and venture capitalists committed to sharing best practices,

pooling resources, and supporting entrepreneurship.

On Friday, April 19, the College is co-sponsoring a day-long conference SUNY Engine Out Front and Pulling Away: Bypassing Roadblocks at the Hilton Garden Inn, Auburn. The conference will feature speakers from several SUNY two- and four-year institutions, as well as a few private universities. For more information, visit www.cayuga-cc.edu/engine.

Day-long conference planned for April 19thBy Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

EntrepreneurConference Hilton Garden Inn74 State StreetAuburn04-19-20138 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Magician Wows StudentsBy Abigail Young, assistant editor

Auburn Campus hosted a magic and comedian show by Lindsay Benner on March 25th. Lindsay has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and entertained people at The Magic Castle in Hollywood.

Lindsay’s act consisted of five sections that followed her prop book, The Book of Love. She opened the show by making tiny balls appear in her mouth. Then she searched in the audience for a Mr. Right. Taking a student onto the stage, she asked him to help her make music. While she played a kazoo, he hit bells to complete her melody.

Next up was their first date, where she invited him to have

tea with her. Lindsay took the tea set and balanced it on her head. Following that she juggled glow in the dark balls to impress him.

After this she made dinner or at least attempted to. She ended up burning the eggs she was making. Then she pulled out some Chinese takeout, which was actual paper hearts, which she and the student ate.

For her finale, Lindsay pulled two more students, a boy and girl, from the crowd and asked them to help her with the finale. Balancing on the crossed arms of the two boys, Lindsay was handed three sharp knives, by the girl volunteer, to juggle. All went well and Lindsay ended the show with a bow with her volunteers.

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The Cayuga Collegianwelcomes letters from its readers. Submissions must be emailed to cayugacollegian @gmail.com. Submissions may be edited for content or length. Submissions must include your name, address and daytime phone number.All letters to the editor are copied exactly and do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of the Collegian office, its staff or advisors. All letters are simply the opinions of the writers themselves.

As a writer for a newspaper, albeit a student newspaper, I like to think that I check my bias at the door, except when I write opinions, then I absolutely have the right to tell you exactly how I feel about a certain subject.

On straight news stories I like to think that I look at all sides equally and never suppress a story that I think the students at this school deserve to know about.

What about the national news media? They’re often called the mainstream media or in Sarah Palin’s case “the lamestream media”.

NBC, CBS, ABC, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Thomson Reuters, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are members of the MSM just to name a few. They’re all a part of the Associated Press.

These newspapers and news aggregators arguably are the gatekeepers of the news and what is considered viable to be news. But what happens when something that is obviously newsworthy slips through their fingers? What if it didn’t slip through their fingers, but was purposely ignored to fit their agenda yes, our biggest members of the press have an agenda and if you refuse to believe that, you’re misinformed or willfully ignorant.

The biggest news stories of the past few months have been stories like the Jodi Arias trial, and Manti Te’o and his imaginary girlfriend. It’s hard to think that these two stories really deserve as much attention as they are receiving.

But have you heard of Kermit Gosnell? He’s a millionaire private abortion provider in West Philadelphia who is currently on trial for the worst medical murder case seen in this country in a good long while.

Sure, low-key blogs on both sides of the abortion issue covered it heavily. But what of the mainstream media? Nadda. Not on television, and relegated to A-17 of the New York Times.

Gosnell, 72, stands accused of the deaths of seven infants at the abortion clinic he ran by inducing the mothers with dangerous anesthetics to give birth prematurely to live

The ‘Lamestream’ Media exposed babies who were shortly killed thereafter by having their spinal cords cut at the neck, effectively decapitating them as well as the death of a pregnant woman awaiting an abortion there. Most of the abortions were performed on women more than 24 weeks pregnant, over the legal limit in the State of Pennsylvania.

His lawyers’ defense is that the seven murder victims weren’t viable outside the womb because of the lethal drugs used to induce their delivery. HOW MESSED UP IS THAT?

This is what a 40 year road from Roe v. Wade has led us to. An absolute callous and cold attitude towards the right for life. The current gun control battle in this country has gripped us since Newtown, but does it matter whether those children were shot in the head or if they had been decapitated?

Why should the manner of their death matter more than the deaths themselves?

The mainstream media ignored this trial because of the implications that it might bring, that being the increased push for limits to abortion in this country.

And hell why not? I’m sick of living in a country where we afford more privileges and second chances to murderers and rapists than to unborn children. It’s despicable and it makes us look less like human beings and more like monsters.

This country has all of its social values screwed up.

Liberals are anti-death penalty but pro-abortion, Conservatives are pro-life, but are anti-gay marriage and gay adoption which would provide safe and stable homes and represent a large reprieve on a very large and struggling foster care and adoption system.

The media section in that West Philadelphia courtroom sits empty for the last time, as the mainstream media has been shamed into covering a story that they should have been all over in the first place.

Google “Kermit Gosnell” to get the full story and many more harrowing details of the mad doctor’s “House of Horrors” — Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

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Remembering the ‘Iron Lady’By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

She was Prime Minister of Great Britain for 11 years, the first female Prime Minister of Britain and female leader of a major Western nation. She weathered a nearly dead economy, a war with Argentina, union strikes, and an

attempted assassination only to have her political career killed by those she once considered allies.

David Cameron, the current Prime Minister of Great Britain said “Today is a truly sad day for our country. We’ve lost a great Prime Minister, a great leader, a great Briton. As our first woman Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher succeeded against all the odds, and the real thing about Margaret Thatcher is that she didn’t just lead our country, she saved our country. I believe she’ll go down as the greatest British peacetime Prime Minister.”

The Iron Lady has passed away, she was 87 years old.

“It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning,” Lord Timothy Bell said in a statement.

The Baroness Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, grew up Margaret Roberts the grocer’s daughter. But it was clear that she was bound for bigger and better things.

Thatcher attended Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. There she would become the president of the Oxford University Conservative Association. This led to her becoming a Conservative candidate for Dartsford, meeting her future husband self-made millionaire businessman Denis Thatcher in the process. She became a research chemist for J. Lyons and Co. and is widely considered influential in the invention of soft serve ice cream. She was also admitted to the bar and came to specialize in patent and tax law.

Thatcher served as a member of the British Parliament from 1959-1992, serving as the Secretary of State for Education and Science from ’70-‘74, and the Leader of the Opposition from ’75-’79.

In 1979, the Labour Party (the UK’s Democratic Party equivalent) was at a new low, and the Conservative Party was happy to take full advantage. They put Margaret Thatcher up as candidate for Prime Minister, and she won, becoming the first woman Prime Minister in the history of Europe.

Her triumph would be short lived, as the then six decade stand-off between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland would come right to her doorstep when her close friend and confidant, celebrated British soldier Airey Neave was murdered when an offshoot of the Provisional Irish Republican Army placed a car bomb in his Vauxhall and blew him up outside the House of Commons.

This wouldn’t be the last time that Thatcher and the Provisional IRA came to blows.

But first came a threat to the sovereignty of the British, self-governed, Falkland Islands from the ruling Argentinian military junta. The Argentine military invaded the islands that they claim is theirs, calling them Las Malvinas, and kidnapped the governor of the islands.

Thatcher rebuked the United States and other allied attempts to draw a ceasefire and authorized a naval task force to re-take the islands, which they did in two months in a solid show of force. But the war didn’t come without controversy.

The HMS Conqueror nuclear submarine sank the ARA Belgrano cruiser on the open waters, 36 miles outside of the 200 mile radius British “exclusion zone” forbidding any foreign vessel military or otherwise at the chance of being sunk. Argentina cried “war crime” and Britain cried “justified”. The sinking is controversial in both countries today but cemented the legacy of Margaret Thatcher as a formidable leader to be reckoned with.

After the success of the Falklands War combined with an ever leftist Labour Party, Thatcher was elected to a second term, which would start off with a bang, literally and figuratively.

When the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike in 1984, Thatcher was prepared because she had organized the raw material that the union produced in droves, knowing that they would strike sooner or later. This was a crowning achievement for Thatcher. As the Marxist union boss Arthur Scargill openly supported some of his union’s violence, it alienated moderates, and the strike ended nearly a year later with no settlement. Cartoons depicted Thatcher wailing on Scargill with her signature handbag.

October 12, 1984 was a night that Margaret Thatcher would never forget.

While she worked on a speech in her first floor room at the Hotel Brighton, a bomb detonated by the IRA ripped through five floors at 2:54 am, killing 4 and wounding more than 30. The wife of the Tories’ chief whip, John Wakeham was dead and a cabinet minister, Norman Tebbit, and his wife were wounded. Mrs. Tebbit has been confined to a wheelchair since. Thatcher had seconds before walked out of the bathroom in her hotel room and sat down at her desk, working on her speech. She could have been injured and at worst dead.

The Iron Lady was nearly murdered, assassinated at the hands of a terrorist group that had murdered her close friend 5 years earlier. The IRA wouldn’t stop.

“Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once – you will have to be lucky always,” the group said in a statement.

Thatcher on the other hand was unfazed; she gathered her speech and demanded that the Conservative Party conference go on as scheduled. She delivered a rousing speech in the face of terrorism, and declared their defeat.

“…the fact we are gathered here, now, shocked but composed and determined, is a sign not only that this attack has failed, but that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail,” Thatcher said.

But Britons saw a lighter side of the calculated leader on the Sunday after the bombing.

She spoke softly of the experience of going to church for a Sunday service and seeing sunlight streaming through the window on to a floral display.

“This is a day I was not meant to see,” she said emotionally.

Thatcher’s relationship with Ireland was a contentious one from the start. It started with the battle over a descriptor for IRA prisoners imprisoned in Northern Ireland. The Labour Party had stripped away their political prisoner status before she became Prime Minister, and Thatcher certainly wasn’t in the mood to lend terrorists any accommodations.

“Crime is crime is crime,” she said. “It is not political.”

Those prisoners would go on a hunger strike and die in prison. Thatcher was viewed as cold and heartless on one hand, and justified on the other.

Thatcher became hard and emboldened by the attempt on her life and her victories over her political and social opponents. She was ready to take Great Britain to the forefront on the international s t a g e , standing next to the United States in our effort to end the Cold War and Communism.

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were described as political soul mates, by everyone including Ronald’s wife Nancy. They were Conservative, for limited government, a strong national defense etc. But they had their moments, like any good friendship. Thatcher blew off Reagan’s proposal for a ceasefire in the Falklands, and Reagan didn’t even tip off Thatcher to the fact that he was invading Grenada, a British Commonwealth member state that had fallen victim to a Communist coup.

But their relationship was none the more known when Libya was deemed directly responsible for the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque in West Germany that was known to be frequented by US soldiers. When France refused to let the United States through their airspace to launch air strikes on Tripoli, Thatcher gladly let us.

W h e n R o n a l d R e a g a n died in 2004, the w o r l d beckoned for the thoughts

of his greatest political ally. But the sickly Thatcher had given up public speaking the year or two before. She was present at the funeral but opted to tape a eulogy. She didn’t disappoint.

By 1990, she had been elected three times, but her vastly unpopular poll tax and her vehement disagreement with joining the Eurozone and the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, and ditching England’s Pound sterling for what would become the Euro.

This led the Conservative Party to betray

their long-time leader and call for a vote to replace her as party leader, effectively replacing her as Prime Minister. Thatcher won the first ballot, but the second ballot was contested. Her cabinet persuaded her to resign and she left 10 Downing St. in tears.

23 years later we have seen the Eurozone fall into complete and utter disarray. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Cyprus have all seen major bailouts. The Iron Lady’s prophecy that co-dependence on financial affairs would ultimately lead to doom came to pass. Low and behold Great Britain is the healthiest nation in Europe simply because they didn’t join the Eurozone and still use the Pound sterling.

Margaret Thatcher will be remembered as the savior of Great Britain for her economic liberalization. But she will forever be remembered as the Iron Lady for her no-

nonsense, no-compromising way of leading. She always led from the front, never behind. She consistent ly stood on top in a man’s world and they fell in line because deep down, they knew what

leadership looked like. You will not hear another name mentioned right after Winston Churchill other than Margaret Thatcher when it comes to the greatest of British Prime Ministers.

Rest in Peace Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady.

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“The 2013-2014 state budget for Community colleges has $3 million allocated for performance based funding for A.A.S., A.O.S., and Certificate programs that will have direct linkages to employers. Although there’s a lot of work to be done with it, the Governor’s idea is that we need to track our graduates as they leave the college and go to work and demonstrate that we actually are supplying workers for companies and businesses in the counties we serve,” President Larson said.

He continued saying, “…that one’s going to be interesting, to see how it plays out , but there’s $3 million of new funding there. There’s also $1.7 million in funding for what is called the “GAP” program. It’s for community college students to complete their programs on time , to address the concern for remedial education before they come to the college, and to ensure that they will be more successful. No one knows what those details will look like because it’s only in the legislative language right now.”

Budgeting for travel among college departments was also discussed. All travel

expenses were put in the President’s office travel line, and from there are distributed to those who request those funds in their budget.

“The rationale for doing this is that when travel is dispersed across the entire budget, people were not expending all of their travel funds, and we found out at the end of the budget year that travel funds that someone else could have used were not available,” President Larson said. “That was the sense behind moving it under one budget.”

“The desire was to make certain travel funds are accessible to people who will use them rather than it’s in someone else’s budget area, and they’ve not spent it and of course no one else would have access to it,” Larson said.

Larson says the yearly budget is a large undertaking but the feeling of accomplishment is a good one and it takes a team of people to get the work done.

“Everyone did a wonderful job, I really have to thank all of you… it will make decision making much easier and much quicker,” Hutchinson said.

When comedian Ryan Reiss visited the Auburn Campus for a show, students were entertained by the comedian’s antics and jokes. But not everyone was laughing.

One particular person was Larraine Mahoney, who works in the Center for Academic Success. On the day that Reiss visited, Mahoney had a rare chance to go to the cafeteria to get some lunch. While standing in line at Subway, she heard some of the jokes that Reiss made.

One in particular she recalled was Reiss saying, “I used to date a girl that was a cutter. Do you know what that is? When she gets depressed and upset, she cuts herself. White girls do this but black girls don’t. When black girls get upset, they cut you.”

Mahoney thought this joke was racist and offensive. Later while talking to some

By Abigail Young, assistant editorcolleagues, she found that her opinion was shared.

Mahoney’s point was that people come to college to mature and elevate themselves up from their high school behavior. It seemed to her that this was a step backward and that the college seemed to validate this behavior and was okay with it.

Another professor, Susan Wolstenholme, from the English Department, also had some input about the show.

Wolstenholme, like Mahoney, only caught a few minutes of the show while standing in line at Subway and did note that students were laughing at what Reiss was saying.

“Just because you have a group that finds these things funny, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re good,” said Wolstenholme. “Jokes can be serious and jokes can be offensive.”

Wolstenholme suggests there should be a discussion about what was presented and that the students and professors should sit down to look at and voice their opinion on it.

“These are serious issues and should be treated as serious issues,” said Wolstenholme.

Student Activities Board (SAB) advisor, Norman Lee says he is sorry that the professors felt this way and does not dismiss what they felt. He says he had invited Mahoney to an Student Activities Board (SAB) meeting to talk with the students about her feelings. He also said that he would bring this up to students in the future when they choose who would visit.

In his opinion, the comedian wasn’t bad.“This was stuff you see on Late Night and

it wasn’t horrible,” Lee said.Lee says he didn’t think Reiss was

insulting anyone and pointed out that there were BOCES students sitting in front of the stage. They would call out “Hello my name is...” and Reiss would respond, “That’s nice.”

Lee says the comedian didn’t heckle the students at all and Lee feels if the comedian was bad, he would have.

Lee’s main point was that this was a student-run event and it was the students’ decision to invite the comedian to campus.

“We (SAB) saw him at a conference and the SAB liked him,” Lee said.Comedian Ryan Reiss

10. “I love argument. I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me - that’s not their job.”

9. “I am not a consensus politician. I’m a conviction politician.”

8. “No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well.”

7. “Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”

6. “My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.”

5. “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

4. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”

3. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

2. “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

1. “To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the ‘U-turn’, I have only one thing to say: “You turn [U-turn] if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.”

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Former CCC Childhood Education student, Marshall Merritt who now works as a youth counselor for Carnival Cruise Lines in Australia, recently won a Carnival ‘Oscar’ for being the ‘Funniest Team Member’ on The Carnival Spirit. Merritt joined Carnival in May 2011.

On March 27th, the main foyer of the Auburn Campus was taken over by police officers. No there wasn’t a problem, it was the annual Criminal Justice Fair.

Some of the organizations represented were the Cayuga and Seneca Community Action Agency, the Cayuga County Sheriff Department, the Cayuga County Probation, the Monroe County Sheriff Office, Correctional Services, the Auburn Police Department, and the New York State Department of Conservation.

CCC’s Criminal Justice Club was present as well, hosting a DWI stimulation in the Student Lounge. Students could put on a pair of goggles that stimulated different levels of intoxication. While wearing the goggles students were challenged to walk on a straight line or throw a basketball to a specific point.

Some of the organizations were offering information about upcoming tests. The Monroe County Sheriff office will hold a civil service test in the fall, and in the month of November will hold a road patrol test. The New York State Conservation office will also hold a fall civil service test.

The Cayuga and Seneca Community Service Action Agency talked about an event being held on April 24th in downtown Auburn. Take Back the Night will be an event focusing on stopping domestic violence. The Agency also has received a new grant for family visitation. This grant will allow a smooth transition for kids between parents

Auburn Campus Hosts Criminal Justice FairBy Abigail Young, assistant editor

who have separated and have a history of domestic violence issues. The Cayuga Mental Health Building will become a designated area where these exchanges can be made.

Talking to the Cayuga County Probation officers, they were impressed by the fair. Both were CCC alumni and commented on the fact when they went to school here they did not have such an event. They could only recall a former FBI agent visiting once. They said that this was a great opportunity for the students and the different organizations as well.

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This week’s sports rant is titled “much ado about nothing”, quite frankly because we had a lot of over reactors in the past couple weeks in the sports world

Let’s start with Mike Rice, the former coach of Rutgers University. This guy was a foul mouthed idiot for using gay slurs to “pump up” his players. No one is likely to get on their game after they’ve been treated like trash. But his gay slurs weren’t what got him fired.

What got him fired was stuff that Bob Knight used to do in his Indiana days when he was in a GOOD mood; throwing basketballs at players, shoving them around, grabbing collars and such. The big guns at Rutgers knew of this tape for upwards of a year and they didn’t move to fire Rice because they had a nice money-making deal with the Big 10 and they didn’t want to mess it up. That’s where the story begins and ends.

Another offender is Joey Logano. This guy, I tell ya. He and Denny Hamlin used to be teammates. But word has it they sort of hated each other’s guts which led to Logano leaving and joining another team. They have a war of words on Twitter after Hamlin got into Logano at Bristol Motor Speedway and Logano says that he’s coming for Hamlin. Well came he did.

In the final lap at California Speedway, Hamlin is in the lead and Logano 2nd. Logano absolutely wipes Hamlin out as well as himself, letting 3rd place Kyle Busch win the race. Just from the fact

that Hamlin was in 1st and Logano was in 2nd, many in the NASCAR world believed that Logano could have easily stayed put and cruised to a good finish. But Logano couldn’t do that, he had to gain a measure of revenge. Hamlin slammed into the upper wall, went all the way down the race track and slammed into the lower wall, unprotected by a SAFER barrier, suffering a compression fracture in his lower back as a result.

Logano claimed to have not known of Hamlin’s injury when he uttered the words “he got what he deserved” in a post-race interview. Well good for him, he’s still a jerk.

Then there’s Carlos Quentin. What a jerk. He’s facing Zach Greinke Thursday night like he had done many times before. They both used to be in the American League Central, Quentin with the White Sox and Greinke with the Royals. Now they’re in the National League West, Quentin with the Padres and Greinke with the Dodgers.

Greinke drills Quentin with a pitch, a very normal pitch to hit a batter with. Normally a player will take their base and shut the hell up. But not Quentin, oh no, Quentin felt like he had been disrespected in some manner, so he charges up the mound and they both lower their shoulders. Long story short, Greinke has a broken left collarbone. Quentin is suspended for 8 games, so justice has been served. Not to mention his vandalized Wikipedia page.

Much ado about nothing

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