<![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> At least I can say who killed Pedro's chicken. I can't say that about the one I got over here in a bucket.

deadlizard

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> Does the loser become chicken salad?

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @billyfabs: "Chickens are delicious." That really kind of sums up the whole thing, doesn't it?

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @IndianSlipper: Now that's funny!

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @Nately: Because they're chickens. We don't have pet chickens who we pamper and take on walks and kiss on the mouth and knit sweaters for. It's just not the same thing, sorry.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> cock fighting in the dominican republic is seriously no big deal. its legal and just as easy to find a cock fighting match in some places as it is to find a game of dominos. there is no issue here b/c what they are doing (although seen here in the US as morally wrong) is socially and legally accepted. so keep on fighting pedro... next time just don't record it.

mariestar

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> Grown men. Really. :(
BTW, someone eat that crap... www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com

sharpeiboy

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @Chaim Gnadelstein: Sun Chips are better for you anyway.

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @picardia:

**Pauses. Expression drops. Stealthily licks fingers, brushes residual orange powder desk. Eyes suspiciously dart around office.**

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @Pope John Peeps II: Awareness of this brutal sport is a small step that helps lead to change. Publicizing this video doesn't have to supplant anybody's work vis a vis factory farming.

Don't get me wrong though. I love the succulence of most fauna. We just don't have to relish (fnar) suffering in the process.

BadUncle

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> I love how after the gentlemanly handshakes, the network replays a slo-mo of the kill shot, like in Mortal Kombat. So thrilling! Put those cocks in audacious WWE style outfits and I'll sign a petition to legalize cockfighting in the Bronx.

extended_forecast

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @Pope John Peeps II: i love you.

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> A friend of mine just did his MBA at a prestigious business school. The program culminated in a field trip to China, to "learn how to conduct business across cultural boundaries" or whatever -- an intensive three-week tour of head offices, manufacturing plants and natural resource centers, during which students were taught the local customs and formalities. Anyway, one of the stops on the trip involved sharing a meal with a successful Chinese entrepreneur at restaurant that happened to serve dog -- literally listed the breed, according to price, on the menu. And, under the watchful eye of their grading supervisors, a surprisingly large number of these young Americans elected to indulge, regarding it as the implied test of the exercise.

It's kind of funny to think of dog-eating and cockfighting in the context of the US's very different relationships with China and the Dominican Republic, respectively -- in terms of the power structures that govern one country's ability to retain a moral stance against another's practices and rituals.

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> Cultural??? Legal in that country??? Didn't defenders of the Taliban use the same arguments? It's wrong to torture animals for entertainment. Self evident, if you ask me.

Also, I like chicken-fried chicken best.

erniehotwheels

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @picardia: I'm not saying people aren't committed to change. I'm saying this is a non-issue. It's another country and another culture and change generally starts locally.

And I don't waste any more than 45 minutes a day on the related gawker sites. See, i'm actually smart. So I read quickly. And write quickly. And as for the time I waste here, that's my business. Which you know nothing about. A fact which I suspect is also true of almost everything else in your world.

@BettyCrocker: Sure. You can point it out if you want. But don't argue for spending resources to change something so foreign. Spend resources to change things sensibly.

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @fortqueenmean: This faggot says that Pedro and Dreamy David Wright were the only two Mets who didn't contribute to the worst collapse in history that made me drunk for two weeks. I still would've been drunk those two weeks regardless, but having my Mets hat on gave me a decent enough reason.

Look, this is a shame and it's distasteful and appalling to do this to animals (regardless of their deliciousness factor), but if it's legal in the DR then he at least didn't break any actual laws, moral ones notwithstanding. It seems a more cultural thing than anything, perhaps, and hey maybe the rest of the world isn't as Anglo-centric as some people think/hope/want.

Also, any similarity between this and Michael Vick is hysterically overstated. Big difference between continually presiding over dogfighting rings and participating in a (legal in his country!) event the one time.

Also, chickens are delicious.

billyfabs

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: They may be a trifle crispy, Judge, but I've seen evidence of both.

@Pope John Peeps II: False dichotomy. Both are rotten, and a person can point that out without being a hypocrite.

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @Pope John Peeps II: How do you know Gibson doesn't? You don't know that.

This is gross and disgusting. The fact that it's not the world's number one priority doesn't change the fact that it's gorss and disgusting. And it's really, really rich when anybody who spends hours on end blabbing on an Internet board about ANYTHING -- much less tons of boards run by this company -- wants to deliver lectures about how other people aren't really committed to change. It's easy to imagine the Cheetoh stains on the computer mouse, clicking away.

picardia

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @The Real JR: Well said. I have a dog. If anyone tried to hurt my dog (or any dog, for that matter), I'd go fucking apeshit on him. Still, I can't say I'm completely comfortable with the fact that a lot of people (including myself) have more sympathy for dogs than a lot of their fellow human beings. But, I'm still going to lavish my pup with care and not give a red cent to The Children's Fund. And somehow, I'm okay with that.

@BettyCrocker: I don't have a heart or a soul, so nothing hurts me!

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @gibsonhamer: No offence, but why? Who gives a shit what people do with farm animals in the Dominican Republic?

If you really wanted to help animals locally you'd try to change and invigorate the livestock and slaughter system in America. Why not busy yourself with where your food comes from and how horrible those animals are treated before you march your moral, christian armies down south to the Dominican.

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: I'd agree with you if they were clams or carrots. But higher up the food chain, there's actual pain involved.

Miss Manners suggested teaching empathy thusly to a 4 year old:

Mom: "Don't pull the cat's tail. It hurts her. How would you like it if someone pulled your tail?

Kid: "I don't have a tail."

Mom: *yanks kid's ear* "Well, that's how it feels."

This method doesn't work on people like John Fitzgerald Page or Julia Allison. But it might work on people who arrange animal torture for sport. Now, where's the number of that angry PETA lesbian I met at Meow Mix?

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: I believe that people don't have to have an opinion on everything.

And frankly, I feel people invest more emotional capital into animals than humans. Much how like people were sobbing over Katrina not because of the people drowning and trapped on their rooves but the tragedy of the stranded animals.

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> Yeah, but have you seen what the average commercial chicken farm looks like? Look -- the hard truth, people, is that a chicken's life just kind of fucking sucks. From any angle. Everybody likes to eat you, and you possess no impressive skill or bubbly personality to give them a conscience about it.

Fight or be eaten. Sooner.

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> Here is a documentary on cockfighting (or search cock fighting on youtube). It shows Carlos Delgado, another Met, at a cockfight and speaking about his foundation supported by cockfights. I guess Pedro is not the only one. Time to investigate the cockfighting subculture in MLB.
[www.youtube.com]


gibsonhamer

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Aside from the delicious kind of individual fate, of course. Where they are hacked up, battered and fried.

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @SinisterRouge: This is how I envision that whole Axl/Cobain fight really going down.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @BettyCrocker: I can see your point entirely - I don't truly think this is a noble sport, and I don't think it's that funny, either.

Still, I don't much care, either. Chickens are livestock, and I guess I'm ambivalent to their individual fate.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> WTF...And this wad of dung also brought about the greatest decline of a baseball team in history last September?

This faggot is not happy.

fortqueenmean

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> The Mets are suppressing the really shocking video: Pedro and Marichal juggling kittens.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Love you - you know I do. I just can't imagine why it's hilarious to watch two animals destroy each other. This isn't sport. It's only a tiny bit removed from the ancient Romans. Sporting events that involve the death of an animal can only properly have the animal with at least a chance of getting away. (There's a lot of foxes roaming around the North Shore, ancestors of those who escaped inept Vanderbilts and DuPonts in the 1920s.) If the human can triumph over the animal's instincts with skill, and plans on eating it (or displaying it) if he kills it - then I guess you can call it a gentleman's game.

Look - our own culture may be even worse, what with reality TV and Jerry Springer. But it can presumed that the people getting on those shows know what's in store.

The birds here don't know, don't have a chance, and probably wind up as food for more birds. Waste and needless cruelty are neither hilarious nor noble.

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @IndianSlipper:
Fan Appreciation Day.


fileunder

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Nice.

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @IndianSlipper: I would expect the Cockfighting Finals (Yes, The Cock Bowl) to be sponsored by Popeye's and held at KFC Stadium.

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @Chris Mohney: At your service. Seriously though, I couldn't believe it was still available, either.

That said, I sure hope they leave nothing to waste and eat that cock.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> And after the cockfight, Martinez went home, put on a Guayabera, slapped his girlfriend around and then went out to get drunk and play dominoes.

gawkimo

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> I'm OK with any sport that, in the end, provides me with Fried Chicken.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> Aw. Pedro. Are we shocked, though? Cuz I'm really really really not.

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: hah! can't believe it took this long for the cock-stroking joke to rightly appear.

Chris Mohney

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @Trixie from Toronto: They even have legal cockfighting in Puerto Rico.

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> Reminds me of the last time I went to the Barney's Warehouse Sale. (What do you expect? There was one stupid Prada shirt on the entire rack.)

koala325

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> For those who can't watch the video:

Pedro strokes his cock furiously, and then his cock goes to town on Juan's cock. In the face of Pedro's raging cock, Juan's cock goes lifeless and limp.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @Trixie from Toronto: But morally, there's no difference between this and dogfighting. Maybe you don't care about that either, but the point is why should the response be any different than the one Michael Vick got from the public?

Nately

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> George Washington did it, so I'm ok with it.

Thenoodieblues

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> If my husband did this I would divorce his ass. I really think people who enjoy this are cracked in the head.

LadyChatterley

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Seriously. Unless it's Foghorn Leghorn, I couldn't care less.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> I heard one time Eli Manning put two Chinese Fighting Fish in the same bowl.

dado

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> He's in another country where such things are considered a sport. This is not news.

If people want to start a fuss over fucked up shit Americans do overseas because it's not American Soil therefore it's okay, let's talk about waterboarding and how "we" supposedly don't torture.

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA[The Pedro Martinez Cockfight Video]]> Perhaps the response has been muted mainly because chickens aren't as cute as puppies? And since this happened where cockfighting is legal? And since cockfighting is awesome/hilarious/the sport of true kings?

TheHonJudgeSmails

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