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As noted this morning, according to the Associated Press, a video of Pedro Martinez and Hall of Famer Juan Marichal taking part in a cockfight in the Dominican Republic was posted and then quickly taken off of YouTube last night.
The report writes, “Cockfighting is both legal and popular in the Dominican Republic.”
Naturally, PETA has issued a letter to Martinez, c/o Shea Stadium.
To download the letter, go to TMZ.com.
…the word from Shea Stadium is that the video is actually from three years ago…the thing is, i’m not so sure about that…i mean, wasn’t pedro rocking the jerk curl back then…in the video, from what i recall seeing, his hair is really short…anyway…yesterday it was celebrating Johan Santana…today it’s PETA, cockfights and jeri curls…unreal…only at shea…
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what the hell do you mean by ‘taking part in a cockfight’……sounds different than ‘attending a cockfight’…
I really like Petas. They taste great and are many times less calories than regular bread,
They are especially good when they are made with many different kinds of meat… mmmmmm.
the pic in the post shows him throwing out the cock. I’d call that “taking part in”.
Oh man… not PETA. They are the looney tunes…
However, I would welcome any hot PETA member to come to Shea and protest Pedro by taking off their clothes. I don’t agree with their message, but I’m totally ok with their methods.
I guess peta did not mention that since 1998 they have received 17,806 animals and killed 14,419 of them.
what exactly do you mean by that?
Man i love this ny media bias, just after evey1 is feeling so high and giddy bout santana they finally talk about it, even though its been on youtube for about a week
he was swordfighting? oh well, its not like hes mike vick.
At least he wasn’t crossing swords with Johnny Drama. Oh, wait…roosters?
The worst part of this entire story is that Petey appears to be starting the year 0-1. I knew we should have led off with Johan.
he took part in this to get to meet pam anderson
Supposedly, the video shows them releasing the roosters as honorary “soltadores;” the rooster Pedro releases fights to its apparent death.
As to its being legal, well… so is consensual sexual activity between adults involving voluntary strangulation; that said, having sex with someone who’s got a plastic bag over your head while in public/in front of cameras when you’ve got “Professional baseball player” at the top of your resume is probably a bad idea.
It occurs to me that this is a very strange thing to have come into your mind…. paging Phil….. paging Dr. Phil…..
dr. phil got divorced and he should never EVER say anything to anyone regarding anything! what a tool he is!
I fan a friend at work who is Puerto Rican, (and no I don’t work at home Depot) and in many parts Latin America Cock Fighting is Legal and considered a Noble Sport.
We run into this funny gray area, who has more rights or politically correct. Protecting Animals doomed for dinner or the traditions of peoples heritage???
Pete Should know that this sort of thing would = Bad Press, I don’t really approve of any animal fighting, but we slaughter animals every day for food and sport, so who are we to judge…
I am all for animal rights, and as I said in a previous post:
In the Dominican Republic, cockfighting is huge. These animals are treated quite well as they can be huge money makers and the people are very prideful when it comes to this. These roosters are not living in conditions like the chickens we eat on a daily basis. In my eyes, it’s all inhumane and I can’t really see a difference.
Are you kidding me “OhJay” with the Puerto Rican racism? Matt, I think these are the comments you spoke about banning before…I’m not sure we need this type of blatant stereotyping anywhere; especially not from fans of a culturally diverse team like the Mets.
Don’t worry fellas, the only cockfighting I’ll be doing is .. well, ya know..
I was waiting for someone to make that joke…
I’m frankly surprised there haven’t been a thousand more.
this will probably get more play on espn and espn.com that the santana press conference did…it does suck that we cant have a period to enjoy getting johann because of something that has nothing to do with baseball like this….
Personally, I think cockfighting is effed up, but I also acknowledge that Pedro’s culture accepts it as legal and as a sport. Its kind of hard to reconcile both viewpoints, but for now I really don’t care. If he pulled some nasty Vick stunt then I would be calling for his head…plus, I hate chickens.
wouldn’t the chickens just be hung and dropped into electric water in a few weeks anyways?
Its hard to argue against animal cruelty when most us eat meat or poultry when you take into consideration that the meat industry is one the filthiest and cruel around…which is kind of why I don’t care. But at the same time Pedro just went down a notch…its a classless activity to partake in when you are one of the faces of a pro sport irregardless of whether it was legal or not….
I’m just going to stay confused on this one until more information comes out and I’m forced to deal with it.
I like my chicken fried. I really like Chik-fil-A. Great sandwiches, fries, and sweet tea. How come the world has stopped at cock fighting? Why not cow fighting or swine fighting? I think if you get these animals in the ring and tell them that the loser becomes a big steak or bacon, it would make for some good entertainment. And the winner gets to go free. I think Peta would be up for this. these animal are becoming my dinner anyway. If the winner has the opportunity to go free, why not. I’ve never seen a cock fight or raised chickens to fight but if I did, I’d just show them a picture of Frank Perdue and tell them to win or else. Man, I can’t wait until the games (baseball, not cock fighting) actually begin …
think about it, these chickens are basically “manufactured” and live in entirely overcrowded cages and they stay in some factory for about 6 months. then they are brutally murdered and sold off somewhere. I can see how dogfighting is bad since it is usually a stolen dog from someones family, and they could be a major part of someones family, but being a cockfighting chicken is probably much better than their lives to be meat poultry. they are usually loved much by their owner (think Kramer jk) and are fed well. They also go down fighting and have a chance to survive its not like the chicken in the meat industry who are sent to get hung then electrocuted. this will be an absolute abomination if Peta comes to the mets games and stalks Pedro like they stalked Mike Vick
In dog fighting, the dog’s are very seldom stolen dogs from happy families. They are usually dogs from certain breeds that are bred and trained to fight, and then they are destroyed when they outlive their profitability.
You can’t just say it’s OK for one species to be treated this way and not the other just because you like dogs more than chickens.
How do you think the animals are treated when being trained for a cockfight? You think their owners are asking them nicely to rip their opponents apart?
cocks are roosters guys. i never ate rooster
U HAVE EATEN COCK THO! OH DAMN
dude
I have a pet rooster. In fact, just yesterday he ran from Newman’s apartment to my apartment in under 30 seconds.
I don’t care who Marcelo flies in from South America, my rooster will prevail.
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