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

[Matt Waggoner <mael1@ucla.edu>]

All these broadcasts sound like a blast -- all I get here in LA is Sumo
Digest every night for two weeks.  Which is fine, don't get me wrong; I
love seeing Chiyonofuji doing his commentary (I can't understand what he
says, but I imagine it's things like "I could beat this guy if I was in a
coma... and this guy cleans my toilet.  This guy here, he's not fit to lick
the bottom of my shoes.")  Of course the entire thing is in Japanese
(including all the captions, subtitles, and whatnot) though I have become
slightly adept at reading the rankings displayed in gigantic hand-drawn
kanji on the screen before each bout.  Eventually I'll learn enough
Japanese to hear the goods!

>Man--and to think I cringe/get annoyed when some of the NHK announcers
>pronounce Japanese words with a strong english accent, or occasionally
>confuse rikishi names!  I guess this account from Moti will really make me
>appreciate all the NHK commentators!  (Even Dave Wiggins! ;)  Oh well, not
>everybody can be a Doreen Simmons/David Shapiro/etc... :)

-Kyojin Saru


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