Pedro Martinez, known mostly for his vicious cut-fastball and adequate-at-best use of the English language, was videotaped at a cockfight today. He claims he was just watching, even though he’s videotaped physically dropping the bird into the ring. It proves, once again, that pitchers are stupid. Except Greg Maddux. He’s to pitchers what Yao Ming is to Chinese people.

Mostly, this illustrates the remarkable hypocrisy of our media. No one came to the defense of Michael Vick because dogfighting is cruel (file that one under N for “No Sh*t). However, teeming masses, including a spokesman for the New York Mets, are lining up behind Martinez and cockfighting in general since, “It’s part of the Latin culture.” That’s absolutely no excuse, because there is such thing as bad parts of cultures. 

Here’s a list of things that have been “part of their culture”:

-Blood diamond trade: part of the culture of Sierra Leone

-Apartheid: formerly part of the culture of South Africa

-Genital mutilation: part of the culture of Saudi Arabia

-Anti-Semitism: formerly part of the culture of Germany

-Not Eating: part of the culture of Somalia

Something is either good or bad, and that opinion shouldn’t be swayed for fear of offending someone. Either training animals to kill each other is beautiful and majestic or it’s barbaric. Pick a side, pussies.