(SPOILER) Re: [sumo] Day 6 spoiled!

[Lon Howard]

On Jul 14, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Kaiopectate! wrote:

> You would?  Okay -- I'm with Jezz on this:
>
> Neither a nomination nor a vote of a few gaijin, at SFM, a henka  
> makes. And, the subjective opinions of a smattering do not conflict  
> at all with Jezz's insight that we may have seen things differently  
> on Kotooshu's travel up the banzuke, compared with post-arrival.
>
> And no one -- Osh least of all -- can figure out what he thinks.   
> I'm having a hard time recalling a recent sanyaku rikishi who was  
> more clearly his own worst adversary...pre-retirement Akebono,  
> maybe?  (Anybody got other nominations?)  But it was pretty obvious  
> why Chad couldn't stay on his feet.
>
> So, maybe we should be more tolerant, given the condition of  
> Kotooshu's knee.  And aren't we being a little too dogmatic about  
> successful henka, anyway?  The best way to sneer at a henka is from  
> above, after the offender is lying on the dohyo.
>
> And frankly, although I admire Ama's head-on losses to any and all  
> comers far more than Osh's successful feints, I think that henka  
> voting is kind of silly, too.

Whew, Kaiopectate, that was close!  Anything short of totally silly,  
I can live with.  But your voter registration card still works.  Cheers,

LH