Pranks Should Be Taken More Seriously

Cutting the arms and legs off Chan Ho Park’s suit is a stupid, juvenile tradition the Dodgers can well do without. It’s the height of cultural arrogance to pull what The Times calls a “prank” on a ballplayer from another culture who obviously doesn’t understand why someone would destroy his clothes. I don’t understand it either, and I was born here.

Let’s hope that this “tradition” doesn’t work its way into other workplaces or we could be in for lots of tantrums.

KEN WIBECAN

Lynwood

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Bob Nightengale’s “blame the victim” article on Chan Ho Park indicates that the good-old-boy system is alive and well in the sports department of the L.A. Times. Nightengale’s classification of Park as a “clubhouse goat” for being upset that players cut his suit up and not going along with the “joke” is beyond the pale.

JOHN NELSON

Long Beach

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On the TV news the day after Chan Ho Park’s “suit explosion,” Park explained the reason he reacted so strongly was because his mother in Korea had bought him that suit. Your article failed to mention this fact, which, to me, was the essence of the entire story.

SOJI KASHIWAGI

Pasadena