I have a lot of thoughts on the Mitchell report which I’m going to write about later, but for now there is a letter in today’s New York Times which is so funny it bares repeating in its entirety.

To the Editor:

When I was growing up in the 1970s, parents encouraged their kids to participate in sports to help keep them away from drugs. Now the most prominent drug abusers are professional athletes.

From the cyclist Floyd Landis to the sprinter Marion Jones to the scores of baseball players named in former Senator George J. Mitchell’s report, the list of confessed or alleged drug users goes on and on. And if so many pros are using, one has to suspect that thousands of aspiring high school athletes are dabbling in performance-enhancing drugs, too.

I cannot in good conscience encourage my kids to participate in organized sports and chance getting mixed up in such unsavory and self-destructive activities. To keep them straight and clean, I might better urge them to grow their hair long and start a rock band.

Adrian Cho
Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., Dec. 14, 2007

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