Kujo

Sometimes you eat the bear, so times it bearly eats you. This time the bear chewed me up, spit me out, and then the stomped all over the pieces that were left. That must have been a fun (drunken) night in the izakaya where they drew up that mess. Either that or they wore a blindfold and threw darts at a wall (probably the same izakaya) with the shikonas on it to make the picks.

So Moti-san, are you saying that "bearly" is the new "properly".

I hope so also, but in true NHK fashion they will probably bring back Clyde Newton....

At the shikiri-sen, T. Hamster Rex proved he could physically get both hands down (I didn't think he was capable). After Takakeisho's win the camera cut to the shitaku-beya showing Ichinojo with a (small) smile, I'd never seen him smile before. Congrats Ichi!

I completely agree, but I wish the MIB would stick with a decision (if there even was one). It was my belief that before the previous basho it was stated that being out of a basho due to covid would not result in a demotion on the next banzuke.

Oh I completely agree, but why would you willingly walk into what Ura just walked into?

I think the "consideration" is because this never happened before and the MIB are fairly unpredictable when making a banzuke. I don't think he should be demoted, but ichinojo dropped a rank in the last banzuke because of covid (made no sense to me or my GTB).

Takakeisho tries to be Enho (yeah, no way he can get low like Enho) and then Ura tries to be Ichinojo (well the double inside worked for Ichi on Day 5).

What the hell did Takakeishi just do there? Was he channeling Enho?

Shodai! I think Ichi gave him a little too much respect.

I think that Mitakeumi being a relatively new ozeki might work in his favor (I agree on his recent performances not being ozeki worthy). If it was Shodai there would be no doubt about who the next "new" sekiwake would be (and I like Shodai, at least I did when he fought like an ozeki).

Demoting Mitakeumi now would be pretty harsh.

I'll start the banzuke conspiracy theories right now (I know, I know wrong thread, but I didn't see a "completely ridiculous predictions" for Aki or a Natsu promotion/demotion thread yet). We'll have a Yokozuna/Ozeki, one Ozeki (West) and four Sekiwake (Mitakeumi, Shodai) + the normal sekiwake. And my next GTB will be it's all time worse (if that's possible).

Moti-san makes one little freudian slip (or did he?) and the sujo come out of the woodwork (sorry guys)