Because what? Seriously you think he's a son of a bitch because he loves cockfighting or whatever. Are you a meat eater? Do you eat chicken? If you are do, do you make sure to eat meat that is free range and not locked up in coops 6 to a chicken? I mean give me a break. Unless you are coming out saying, hey the way most americans eat chicken is horrendous and let's look at that, then you have NO case.

Why don't you let it go? Why not let go that something that is very common in the Domincan Republic and just a thing that kids grow up with....as we grow up with chicken just coming from the grocery store.

Locking chickens up in a cage for their entire lifetime is just as abusive as fighting them against each other.

I'm not some kind of vegan whatever, as I eat meat and don't look at where it comes from. But can we please judge Ramirez as a baseball player and not hate him only because something he grew up with disgusts you personally!?!?!?!

In fact. You, disgust me. Drop it already. Let's talk baseball! Go Cubs!

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Cockfighting and Bullfighting have been around for hundreds of years and political correctness has only been in vogue for the last twenty of so. Get over it. Get offended if you must but move on. Different strokes for different folks.

This sad little comment of yours was worth an entire new post? You couldn't just comment in the article Jason wrote? Are you kidding me?

The worst part about you Mark... the thing that has already turned off so many readers and probably half the writers if I know them at ALL is that you're a thick headed hack. You're the worst of what America is ... arrogant "my way or the highway" assholes who won't even acknowledge contrary points. Somebody here could say a million times "you almost certainly eat the meat of animals treated in cruel ways" and you'd respond by saying "I don't like Aramis Ramirez, he's a son of a bitch."

Give me a fricking break, Mark. Tell you this, though, I'm never going to read another post you write. I've had enough. I'll still come to this website like I have for YEARS but your content is something I will never read or enjoy. Thanks, buddy.

Because you don't approve of Ramirez' offseason practice of cockfighting--which is legal and socially acceptable in the Dominican--you're counting down the days until this in-his-prime slugger, who plays one of the most important defensive positions in the field--and plays it rather well, IMO--is out of here? Geez, man get a grip. This criticism reeks of cultural elitism. Get over it.

Like Leah says, unless you're a vegan, you're operating under an enormous double standard.

If you don't like Ramirez because he doesn't hustle, or sometimes plays lackadaisically, that's fine, I suppose. But bringing into this what he does in his own time in the offseason in a milieu where is it not only legal but socially acceptable is an unneccesary obfuscation of baseball analysis, as evidenced by the fact that most readers were distratced by your myopic and unneccesary first paragraph, and subsequently ignored the rest of the entry.

If we didn't breed them for slaughter, they'd all probably be extinct by now anyway.

Have you ever seen how chickens (or any other livestock, for that matter) are processed? In your world, it could only be described as "inhumane."

At least when they're in the ring, they have a couple razor blades and a fighting chance at survival.

My advice to you: Try putting a lump of coal up there and see if you can produce a diamond.

dude

What, were you the San Diego chicken in another life?
Or was my first premise correct, that you're bitter about salaries and bitter because cause you couldn't play the game worth a crap? You certainly have an odd air about you, to say it as nicely as I can. Dude, it's a freaking game. It's entertainment.
One more point, ain't none of us perfect, not ballplayers, not me, and probably not you, either.

This is a message of Big Brother.

You are absolutely right !!!