Has the cock crowed for Pedro?

Uh-oh.

A video of New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez and Hall of Famer Juan Marichal at a cockfight was posted this week on YouTube. Martinez and Marichal laugh before releasing the roosters. The two took part as honorary "soltadores," the word used to describe the person who puts the animal to fight.

Pedro... the Michael Vick of the barnyard?

The Don King of cluckers?

Say it ain't so.

This comes as the Amortizins are showboating their $137 million gamecock, Johan Santana. In today's Times, Willie Randolph foreshadows the carnage that lurks within the cold-hearted chicken-murderer, Pedro...

During a recent chat over dinner in the Dominican Republic, Martínez paid Santana the ultimate compliment by telling Randolph that he had tremendous respect for him. “This guy is as tough as it gets,” Randolph recalled Martínez telling him. “He’ll cut your heart out.”