[sumo] My take- Asashoryu's brilliant performance to save the Kyokai

["Jürgen Buder"]

Dear Scott,

here is a re-interpretation of what I've got from your posts on this topic. Hmm, where to start? Maybe somewhere in the middle of your latest post.

> Datum: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:09:05 -0400
> Von: Scott Kahn <smk1 at columbia.edu>
> An: Sumo Mailing List <sumo at webtrek.com>

> But even prior to this incident, the Kyokai was handling Asashoryu as a 
> Yokozuna of Japanese expectations.  Asashoryu, being Mongolian, being 
> married to a Mongolian woman, having his family in Mongolia, an 
> international youth ambassador, a national hero in Mongolia, had other 
> responsibilities.  

It's really a shame that the Kyokai, the ruling organiziation of the Japanese national sport handles Asashoryu as a high-order representative of that national sport, with Japanese expectations and such. How could they dare to do this, knowing fully well that he is a youth ambassador first and foremost? Could it be that the horrible T-word applies to them, well, I venture to speak it out loudly, that they are traditionalists?

Nah, no way, it is proven once and for all by Mark West that the Kyokai officials do not intend to preserve tradition because they are money-churning string puppeteers who are in total control of what leaks out to the press. Come to think of it, there must also be some Kyokai scheming involved in the fact that we know there was abuse and hazing involved in Tokitaizan's death when the Kyokai could so easily have hid that from the public. Moreover, the Kyokai officials must have also orchestrated the yaocho allegations published in the Shukan Gendai for some cunning reason. 

What an interesting tension - the Kyokai plays the media like Stevie Wonder plays the piano although at the same time it is so evident that they are slaves to the rags and their media frenzy! Hmm, but then again, they cannot ride the wave of the public opinion too much because they fear nothing on earth more than the tsunami of xenophobic accusations raised on some mailing lists. Tricky situation. How to get out of that?

They ask the yokozuna to fake a mental disorder in order to help them out of their self-afflicted misery. The yokozuna, ever the gentlemen, suddenly forgets that he was deliberately mocking the Kyokai for years by taking the kensho with his left hand, and he agrees willingly to take part in the clever ploy.

That makes sense - not. In fact, a counter theory indicating that you'll bend all evidence in order to keep your original view that Asashoryu is a thoroughly nice person (after all he had dinner with you and called you "sensei") makes much more sense to me.
IMO, of course.

Randomitsuki
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