Look, I don’t get this whole fascination over cock fighting (just typing the words cock fighting makes me shudder as that term gives me an awful image in my mind ) and I guess as Petey says it his “culture” but then again at some point don’t you realize that your “culture” needs to be a bit refined?  But what can the Mets or MLB do to Petey? Not a damn thing that’s what. As long as Brett Myers gets to pitch every fifth day for the Phillies after smacking his wife in the face, it kind of tough to get worked up over a couple of rooster’s dukeing it out.

Ryan Church avoided arbitration and signed up for 2008 for $2 mil. That leaves Ollie Perez as the lone hold out. The Mets have not gone to an arbitration hearing in sixteen years so it seems that if the Mets break that streak it will be more about Perez and Scott Boras than Omar and Mets management. In fact after watching Alex Rodriguez dump Boras like a bad habit maybe Perez should think about that before he does something he regrets.  Boras has asked for $6.5 mil and the Mets have countered with $4.75mil Ollie take the middle at $5.5 mil and be happy.