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There is a theory going around that the well-known TV personality Hiroshi Sekiguchi has reached his limits.
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Recently, news articles have been reporting on the TBS program &#8220;Sunday Morning,&#8221; in which Sekiguchi serves as MC, pointing out his mistakes and gaffes in the program. The show has been known as &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; since the end of last year.
At the end of last year, Isao Choumoto, a major baseball critic who appeared in the famous &#8220;Shukan Gyoichiban&#8221; corner of the program, graduated from the program. It is said that the repeated tongue lashings are behind this, and it is true that the program is easily watched by the sports press and other media.
Even discounting this, however, Sekiguchi seems to be somewhat unsteady these days.
In the May 8 broadcast, his conversation with baseball critic Mitsuo Tatsukawa, who appeared in the sports section, was awkward. When Tatsukawa mentioned the name of Mike Trout, a hard-hitting hitter and colleague of Shohei Ohtani of the Angels, Sekiguchi asked
 What is Mike Trout?
Sekiguchi asked.
 Tatsukawa replied, &#8220;He is a great hitter.
Tatsukawa replied.
 Tatsukawa replied, &#8220;So, what&#8217;s so great about him?&#8221;
Tatsukawa again asked, &#8220;So what&#8217;s so great about Mike Trout? Again, Tatsukawa replied.
 He can hit home runs and is a mainstay hitter for the Angels.
When Tatsukawa again said, &#8220;He can hit home runs and is a major hitter for the Angels,&#8221; Sekiguchi responded.
 So what?&#8221;
He simply said, &#8220;So what? Tatsukawa also commented on Chunichi&#8217;s Yudai Ohno, who attempted a &#8220;perfect game&#8221; against Hanshin on August 6, saying, &#8220;Today is Mother&#8217;s Day.
 I think his mother did a good job raising him,&#8221; Tatsukawa said with a smile.
When Tatsukawa said with a smile, &#8220;Today is Mother&#8217;s Day.
 &#8220;Why?&#8221; Why?
Sekiguchi asked him questions like, &#8220;Why? The conversation was not engaged until the very end, and the term &#8220;broadcast accident&#8221; was even used on social networking sites. It may be an important role of the MC to ask in-depth questions about things that the viewers do not understand, but it would have been disconcerting to ask questions to the extent that the viewers could not find their rhythm.
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Furthermore, a progress error occurred in the April 24 broadcast. At the beginning of the program, the sinking of a sightseeing boat in Shiretoko, Hokkaido, was discussed, and Sekiguchi replied, &#8220;If we get any more information, we will tell you.
 I will report back to you as new information comes in,&#8221; Sekiguchi said.
I&#8217;ll let you know as new information comes in,&#8221; Sekiguchi said.
 Now, as for the past week&#8230;.
Mizuki Sugiura, the subcaster of the program, hurriedly said, &#8220;There will be a VTR after this.
 We have a VTR coming up in a moment. We are talking to an expert.
A TBS official asked, &#8220;Did Ms. Sekiguchi simply forget about it?
 A TBS official said, &#8220;I think Mr. Sekiguchi simply forgot or was not aware of the progress of the program.
A TBS official then revealed a behind-the-scenes look at the show.
 Mr. Sekiguchi is treated as a &#8220;special&#8221; person within TBS. The program has a meeting called &#8216;Gozen-kai,&#8217; in which the progress of projects and work sites are reported, and even there, Mr. Sekiguchi&#8217;s influence is immense. For example, last week, plan &#8220;A&#8221; was supposed to be the plan, but it was changed to plan &#8220;B&#8221; depending on Mr. Sekiguchi&#8217;s intention during the meeting.
Other &#8220;oddities&#8221; with Mr. Sekiguchi include the remote appearance of Tomomi Okazaki, a women&#8217;s speed skating medalist, in February, where she explained the greatness of Miho Takagi, who won the gold medal in speed skating at the Beijing Olympics.
 She said, &#8220;Her overall balance is wonderful, her joints are soft, and her skating technique is amazing. Her out-flat-in technique is amazing.
He praised her &#8220;out-flat-in technique is amazing,&#8221; but Sekiguchi said.
 What? I don&#8217;t know what it is.
but Sekiguchi was a little confused. Mr. Okazaki replied.
 Mr. Okazaki said, &#8220;Listen to me, please!
Mr. Okazaki was chastising him.
During the January 16 broadcast, a tsunami warning was issued for the Amami Islands, the Tokara Islands, and Iwate Prefecture, and tsunami advisories were issued for various areas along the Pacific coast due to the eruption of an undersea volcano off the coast of Tonga. Sekiguchi commented on this.
 I wonder if we have to put a map of Japan there (on the screen) in order to issue a tsunami warning. It may be a little difficult to see. Please forgive me for today.
He complained. As for the JMA&#8217;s issuance of the order, he said
 I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on, this time,&#8221; he said.
I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; he said.
 The recent trend of Sekiguchi-san is &#8216;I don&#8217;t know,&#8217; &#8216;I don&#8217;t understand,&#8217; and &#8216;I&#8217;m not interested&#8217; (laughs). She has always had this tendency, but now she no longer hides it.
In just over four months since the beginning of this year, we have seen so much ragging. Similar happenings are still likely to occur, but it is also true that he is the one and only in the entertainment industry. If they can sublimate this to the point where viewers can call it &#8220;taste,&#8221; the program may still be in safe hands&#8230;.

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