One-time Mets pitching prospect and incipient “D-minus” actor Joseph Petcka (allegedly) recently manifested his professional angst in a most dramatic fashion, Michael Vicking his girlfriend’s cat in a fit of rage. Petka is now on trial for the crime and is being correspondingly savaged by prosecutor Leila Kermani, who told jurors that the “washed-up, never-made-it-to-the-big-leagues athlete” has “zero income and no prospects.”

Clearly, Kermani never saw Petka’s inspired work on “Sex and the City,” on “Early Edition,” or in a paper towel commercial. She probably hasn’t seen the Mets bullpen lately, either.