Re: [sumo] The Great Switcharoo

[Alex Ferguson <abf@cs.ucc.ie>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:09:21PM +0200, ShiroiKuma wrote:
> Thanks Jay for doing that. Actually, I thought this was exactly the case, i.e. that Asashouryuu switched.

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> I see exactly what Kitanoumi meant when he urged Asashouryuu to improve after his zenshou. And this thing is exactly opposite to that.

If you must throw all the mud there is (or isn't) to throw at the
yokozuna, then I suppose we must, but is there any danger of a bit of
internal logic here?  The 'switcheroo' it's being suggested happened two
or three _years_ ago.  No-one commented on it, at least that I'm aware
of, in all that time.  And now this is "exactly what Kitanoumi meant" by
his mind-bogglingly hand-wavey comments of a couple of months ago, and
Asa has in some mystical sense done the 'opposite' in the meantime?  (By
which you seem to imply he's in some of-course-entirely-unstated sense
wilfully 'worsened'.) Seems a lot more to me like someone's rather
arbitrarily taken a pop at him, and you're deciding to jump on the
bandwagon", quite frankly.

And the imputation of some specifically hubristic motivation seems
_extremely_ baseless.  He was what, high maegashira or somewhere in the
low sanyakus at the time?  You don't think being, as someone else put
it, naturally an 'extreme southpaw' seems the more reasonable
explanation, not to say less gratuitously offensive?
[EndPost by Alex Ferguson <abf@cs.ucc.ie>]