Re: "hapless yokozuna"

[Charles Beauchamp <beauking1@yahoo.com>]

Let's see, Maru has what...11 yusho?  He is generally
either the winner or jun yusho every basho.  He has
had one basho where he withdrew.  Taka on the other
hand has a yusho in the last 2 years and 7 absences in
a row.  Taka should have already been asked to retire.
 Maru is definitely head and shoulders above the crowd
and has already put together a resume that makes him a
great Yokozuna in my view one of the top 10 since
WWII.  

If anyone thinks Musashimaru doesn't deserve to be a
Yokozuna then NO ONE deserves to be a Yokozuna.  I
mean that exactly as it is written.

Hapless Yokozuna Musashimaru?  A great Yokozuna.  

--- Jim Bitgood <jimbit1@starpower.net> wrote:
> This description of Musashimaru was printed in the
> Japan Times online 
> edition on July 21, 2002 following his third
> straight loss on day 14 of the 
> Nagoya Basho.
> Now to my mind, "hapless" and "yokozuna" are two
> words that should not be 
> in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence
> or phrase. With all the 
> discussion about what kind of shape Takanohana is
> in, I think somebody 
> should by talking to Musashimaru about "Yokozuna
> Pride." If he were in 
> Kokonoe Beya, I suspect he would have received a
> lecture or two about "YP."
> Granted he still maintains his record of kachikoshi
> tournaments. A fine 
> Ozeki record, but not a Yokozuna record. I still
> maintain that KK for a 
> Yokozuna is at least 12 wins.
> If he is going to lose his concentration, or
> whatever it is he loses, once 
> he has either clinched a yuushou or fallen out of
> contention, he does not 
> deserve to be a Yokozuna. Perhaps we, OR better yet,
> the kyokai should be 
> discussing his retirement instead of Takanohana's.
> 
> 
>       Jim
>     "Chitose Taikai"
>          ^Ðç^ÍÎ^Ñå^Éï
> 


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