[sumo] [getting off-topic] Police To Charge Tokitsukaze Oyakata

[Scott Kahn]

You completely miss, or choose to ignore the salient points of the 
original discussion.  For obscure reasons, you choose to focus on 
contrived and petty misinterpretations of my posts.  Furthermore, it is 
ludicrous and a waste of time and bandwith to disrespect the 
international constituency of this mailing list by resorting to grammar 
police actions.

As for your comments on the relative cultural heritage in Japan of Yakyu 
and sumo, you can't be serious?  This was meant as a joke for the sumo 
mailing list, right?
This is as funny as claiming that soccer has a deeper cultural heritage 
in the United States than baseball because more high school students now 
play soccer.  Of course, as you well know, soccer was introduced to the 
United States before the oldest American was born.

I will leave your irrelevent responses to the main issues alone from 
this point on, and I now cede to you the off-topic debate floor and 
personal insult forum.

Sukubidubidu

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Joe Petrow wrote:

>
>Since yakyu, like sumo, has been a part of the culture of Japan since
>before the oldest Japanese was born, their heritage is at least
>identical.  If anything, baseball has a far greater heritage in Japan
>than sumo (seen many high school sumo matches in your time?)
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>  - Peterao
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