[sumo] Sumo Kyokai

[jdemund at aol.com]

Perhaps you can explain to me why those of us who love sumo sometimes are the same ones who love racing - It seems a large percent of us love both sports - is it me, or is it weird?


-----Original Message-----
From: Kuramarujo <klemmerj at webtrek.com>
To: Sumo Mailing List <sumo at webtrek.com>
Sent: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 4:07 pm
Subject: Re: [sumo] Sumo Kyokai








On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 01:24 +0100, Magnus Berg wrote:

> At the risk of sticking my head in a proverbial hornet's nest, I wanted 
> to ask some of you a question that sprung to my mind the other day. I 
> get the feeling that some members of this list are a bit 
> irritated/angry/furious at the Sumo Kyokai for how they have handled 
> the long row of events this year, mainly the Asashoryu Soccer Incident 
> and the Tokitsukaze scandal.
[...]
> Looking forward to hearing different views on this.

    I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier...

    The NSK is very similar to the FIA.  My two favorite sports being Sumo
and Formula 1 and have a very small bit of understanding of both.  Both
organizations are a "good ol' boys club" having both ultimate power and
a complete inability to to use it.  Personal friction can be more
significant in these kind of situations.  Here's a story...

    You have one competitor, who is often controversial and given the title
of Bad Boy, dominating the sport like none before.  There's lots of
money coming in because of this competitor which makes everyone happy.
But it also makes the competitor more powerful.  Money is good but power
is better so everything is done to take as much power from the
competitor as possible.  Thus Michael Schumaker is forced into
retirement.

    Sound familiar?  Oh, and before this breaks out into a "discussion"
this is just my take on what is happening based on what little I know of
the situation(s).

    The point of all this is that we, the members of the sumo fandome on
this list (with some small exceptions), aren't part of the Sumo worlds
inner workings.  To try and "reason" out why anyone does anything is an
exercise in futility.  Commenting on it or even complaining about it are
human nature.  Just keep things from getting personal.

-- 
Joe "Kuramarujo" Klemmer
http://www.webtrek.com/joe/sumo

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