[sumo] And the snowball starts rollin'..

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>From: Moti <kintamayama at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Oct 4, 2007 1:46 PM
>To: Sumo Mailing List <sumo at webtrek.com>
>Subject: Re: [sumo] And the snowball starts rollin'..
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>Beau wrote:
><<I have always held that if the only reason something
>exists is tradition it can probably be done away with.
> I suspect very much that some attitudes within the
>Sumo community are going to need changing as this is
>2007 and not 1824.>>
>I sincerely hope you are not holding your breath.. Nothing significant will change. Breaking beer bottles on young rikishi is not a rarity, I have just learned. Perhaps they will become even more private now, these keiko sessions.
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>And I disagree that the tradition of jungyo is mythical. It's financial. 
>Asa could have caused the Kyokai financial losses. The fact that he didn't in the end means that he's not such a card after all.. 
>He caused his employers a lot of redness in the face.That is inexcusable, especially in Japan. Forget the other aspects.
>This is part of his job description, as I keep repeating. This is what it boils down to.
>It's like saying "I don't do windows".
>You get fired, or not hired.
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