comedy central-Eurosport sumo "coverage"-total nonsense and waste of time

[motid@bigfoot.com]

Hi non-Europeans!!

Well, yesterday was the final installment of the KAyushu BashU ( THAT'S
how it should be pronounced, according to the commentator..).    If it
wasn't sad, I would be laughing my head off . For those of you who
didn't have the priviledge of watching, and LISTENING, here are some
gems I jotted down:

Tack-eye-  Tachi ai- ( Oh, what a THUNDERING Tack eye that was..}
musashi- mawashi  ( He has his arm on the musashi)
emerald green--any green musashi
ocean blue- any blue musashi
Tokyonada- one of the variations on Tochinonada
Kotonishi - Kotonishiki  -with the accent on the "to"
Cow- Kaio {The locals are cheering the local boy --Cow)
Chiyotaki- well, you know who..
SekiwakA-- (nohana??)
Mitsoyuma- No, not Musoyama----, Mitoizumi--5 times
While Terao (in his ocean blue Musashi) was fighting Asahiyutaka,
Mr.Commentator was explaining that Wakanosato, on our right, in his red
musashi, was out for the duration of the BashU  with an injury, and
Kotonowaka, who can be seen on our left, is the winner by default.
(Terao won by yorikiri, and when the they actually SHOWED Kotonowaka
winning by default, there was a deadly silence accross all of Europe...)

Gorojo- ten times this variation, then he turned Gojoro and Wakanojo
into Mexicans by calling them  GoYoro and WakanoYo..
Makushi, as in-"This is  Oochari's (Oikari"s)  first BashU in Makushi.).

Tokiazuma, Tokinowaka, and the best one-- Talkeye!! As in--- ("That
Talkeye sure has a hairy back..!!}
This drivel went on for five days. OK, it's no big deal, and beggars
shouldn't be chosers, and we should thank the stars that we get a
trickle of Sumo in Europe here and there and so on and so forth..,but
hey, this isn't some local station- this is going out to all of Europe!!
I don't blame the poor "commentator' who probably doesn't know Sumo from
Judo- but who's the @@@3$#% that made him do it?? I wonder what the
repercussions would have been if this was a soccer or a Basketball
commentator screwing up the basics.( Ooooh, Mikel Yordan in  ocean blue
pants is gribbling the beskitbul, and he yumps and flunks the ball in
the beskit and draws a fool! The Chicago BAlls are leading by a
musashi!!  ( Remember, this is not an Italian commentator trying out his
Inglish--this was an English commentator...)
Sorry for the grivvel and y'all have a great holiday!!


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