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Gardener Pedro?

There's a pretty fluffy interview in today's NY Times on everybody's favorite ace.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/sports/baseball/09pedro.html?pagewanted=all

Read more to find out he's got a hot wife, a real nice house, three dogs, and a Hummer. He also prepares on game days by gardening?

For those two hours, Martínez, the Mets star known for his intensity and cleverness on the mound and his quirkiness off it, is in the yard outside his six-bedroom Tudor revival home in Greenwich, Conn. He is planting. He is pruning. He is talking to his tulips. "What about you, beauty?" he will ask in language rarely, if ever, heard on a baseball field. "Aren't you going to grow up to be so pretty?"

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