[sumo] 'Seven Sam' for Sam

[cfinberg at gmail.com]

Not that it's provocative, but that  in the U.S., as opposed to Japan,
it would be criticized as inappropriate.  It is naively xenophobic and
yet it seems not to have rubbed anyone the wrong way.

What's really intriguing about the analogy is that several of the
samurai in the film died  -- i.e., fell before completing the mission.
 Who would survive, according to Mainoumi, do you think? Who, among
the seven, is Toshiro Mifune?

On 1/17/08, Lon Howard <itsulon at wavecable.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:56 AM, cfinberg at gmail.com wrote:
>
> >  What if John Kruk similarly announced the most promising U.S.-born
> > rookies, to the exclusion of foreign players, as The Magnificent
> > Seven?
>
> Actually, if - for five years or so running - all the Cy Young
> winners, batting champs and home run kings were Cubans, Venezuelans
> and Japanese, etc., I don't find that so far-fetched.  In such a
> scenario, discussions over how the U.S. has lost dominance over its
> national pastime would already have become rampant anyway.  I don't
> see it as provocative to discuss what 99% of the population is
> already talking about openly.
>
> LH
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sumo mailing list
> Sumo at webtrek.com
> http://www.webtrek.com/mailman/listinfo/sumo
>