[sumo] What's Next?

[Harold E. Shaver]

Additionally Homasho had surgery on his left wrist after, IIRC, the Nagoya
'08 basho which forced him to sit out then entire following basho.  This
caused him to drop form M2 to M14.  He did rather poorly that 1st basho back
in Kyushu but seemed to get it together and went 10-5 in Hatsu and now 11-4
in Haru.  Considering the records of the people above him I would expect to
see him ranked at Komosubi West for Natsu or at the very worst M1W but I
don't believe with his overall performance Tochiozan will get the Sanyaku
nod with only 8-7 from M2W over the stellar 11-4 performance by Homasho,
IMHO, of course.

Hal "Chisaiyama" Shaver

小さな山

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On
-> Behalf Of Doreen Simmons
-> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:44 AM
-> To: Sumo Mailing List
-> Subject: Re: [sumo] What's Next?
-> 
-> 
-> On 2009/03/31, at 23:19, Attila Sali wrote:
-> 
-> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM, <jdouglas at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
-> >
-> >> What do folks think about Homasho?  Although not a pup, I think he has
-> >> great potential and focus.
-> >>
-> >> Huzayomama
-> >>
-> > I thought for a while that he was the new hope, but then he went way
-> > down on
-> > the banzuke, and I do not know why. So right now I just wish that he is
-> > consistent enough to stay up in sanyaku level.
-> >
-> > Sharinoumi
-> 
-> He had some internal problem that I never heard a clear explanation of.
-> My best informant, an old friend of his stablemaster and a regular
-> visitor to Shikoroyama-beya, who had been tipping Homasho for three or
-> four years as a really good prospect, simply shrugged and said "Naizou
-> ga warui"  which means "his internal organs were bad" -- this doesn't
-> help much, I agree! But he came out of the problem and is  looking much
-> better these days. Is he really back on track?
-> 
-> Thanks to everybody for this interesting burst of Q&A -- I'm debating
-> whether to steal it all for my overdue column -- just got back from the
-> tech rehearsal for Richard III which doesn't leave me a lot of time and
-> energy for sumo. (No, just kidding on the 'steal' part'!)
-> 
-> ;-}
-> 
-> Doreen Simmons
->   jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp
-> 
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