PEDRO MARTINEZ CAUGHT AT COCKFIGHT

NY Post ^ | Feb. 7, 2008

[SolidWood]

Cockfighting

Is that some sort of SanFransicko pervert debauchery?

[cripplecreek]

I’ve got mixed feelings about this. I’m disgusted by this type of “sport” but it seems to be culturally acceptable in that part of the world. (not to mention legal)

In any case, I suspect Pedro is going to feel some pain over this.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Great. Let’s just keep letting individuals from such civilized cultures into our country.

[NonValueAdded]

Who are we to question their cultural norms? /semisarc - let the equivocating of the multiculti set begin.

[PeteB570]

It was in Dom Rep

Legal there.

[reagan_fanatic]

I wonder if Barney Frank had season tickets?

[ClearCase_guy]

Excuse me while I whip this out.

[Wolfie]

True. It’s an interesting question. Lots of stuff is legal in a lot of places.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Pistolshot]

Cockfighting is a cultural thing. Here in NM we have had knock-down, drag-out fights in the legislature to ban it.

Louisiana is the only state, I believe, where it is still legal.

[vetvetdoug]

The bird Martinez released into the fight was killed...loser..
I wonder if they baked the loser after the fight?

[JoanVarga]

I suppose I shouldn't admit to admiring bullfighting, something I saw often while living in Mexico.

Meanwhile, my whole Napoleon Dynamite, "Vote for Pedro" campaign for president is gonna have to try and extricate itself from this Pedro. Sigh.

-Joan

[wideawake]

Let’s just keep letting individuals from such civilized cultures into our country.

Cockfighting is legal in Louisiana, racist guy.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Cockfighting is both legal and popular in the Dominican Republic.

End of story.

[Dante3]

Demented sociopaths.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

From Wikipedia, for what it’s worth:

“On June 27, 2007, the Louisiana legislature voted to ban cockfighting in the state. A spokeswoman for Governor Kathleen Blanco says, pending a thorough review of the bill, the governor intends to sign it into law. The ban will take effect in August 2008.”

(No idea if Blanco signed it or not.)

[Pistolshot]

Ah.....I knew that was moving through the legislature, didn't know if it had been passed or signed into law.

thanks!!!

[Wolfie]

I guess it depends on his contract and other MLB rules. I’m sure if he was filmed nailing an underage prostitute in the Far East , or smoking dope in the Netherlands, the “it’s legal there” argument might not hold much water.

[knittnmom]

I take a trip with a short term mission team to the DR once a year. The camp we stay in has about 20 roosters in cages. They’re so incredibly noise - ALL NIGHT LONG, not just at dawn - that I’d gladly kill them some nights. Some of them are very colorful though. The roosters for fighting are pampered and fussed over between fights. It’s also a viable source of income for the owners of the roosters. Wouldn’t want to see a fight, though.