Re: [sumo] asashoryu and lynn matsuoka

[artist@aloha.net]

> ...and (as a BS Massashigawan) I'm reminded of the 50,000 yankee fans
> surrounding me after Game 2 of last year's ALCS, proclaiming the
> inevitability of the Yankees' World Series bid.
>
> So, yes, Lynn Matsuoka erred in 2001 by predicting her own short lifespan.


Ha!


> Here's why I think it happened, not that she needs someone else to assist
> her....One of Lynn's gifts, along with her extraordinary artistic ability,
> see, e.g., http://www.traditions.jp/MU-intai.html, is the freedom with
> which she says what she thinks.  Too many people, and particularly too
> many women in my generation, don't do so.
>
> Over the years, Lynn has expressed other disagreeable opinions, for which
> I'm grateful.




Thank you Chuck. There is always danger in attempting to  be honest and
forthright. I try to bring authentic info and and a perspective drawn from
32 years of intense observation, to the Sumo commentary . Always with the
rikishi in mind- I never want to hurt anyone.

let he without any history of error,cast the first pink sheet.

re; the asashoryu move mentioned below- I don't remember saying that, but 
 whatever the remark was, it was  most likely part of an explanation that
when a rikishi goes for Ozeki, the SK takes into consideration  not only
your numbers, but HOW you got them. That move would not normally be
acceptable. But acceptability also ebbs and flows with changing needs...

Consider the whole picture.

Lynn
Keeper of beauty and truth

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> JOHN GUNNING <gunningjohn@hotmail.com> wrote:
> i was just watching a dvd of the sept 2001 tournament day 10. lynn
> matsuoka
> was the guest commentator and they were reviewing asashoryu's win over
> wakanosato the previous day. asashoryu gave a whack to wakanosato after he
> had hit the dohyo. lynn was very scathing in her criticism of asashoryu
> and
> his style. one comment she made in reply to murray johnsons discussions of
> future ozeki was "i don't think thats ever going to be a concern for
> asashoryu......i'm sure he'll never be considered for ozeki in my
> lifetime".
> of course i'm sitting here now with hindsight so its easy to laugh at how
> off that prediction was, but what i wonder what lynns opinion of asashoryu
> is these days? do you think he has developed as a person as well as a
> rikishi or would you still think he lacks the essence of sumo compared to
> tochinonada (an example you gave in that same broadcast).
>
> by the way i remember when david beckham was a young teenager coming
> through
> the ranks of man utd. i had the chance to meet him several times. i
> thought
> he was a nice friendly guy but i do remember saying to my friend "he's not
> good enough to get a regular starting place in the first team.....he'll
> probably fade away to some smaller club" of course he went on to win
> everything with united, now plays with real madrid as a "galactico", and
> is
> captain of england. guess my prediction skills weren't so hot either
>
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