WBC の出来事の中で、私は大試合前の大谷選手のスピーチ内容に最も胸を打たれました。大谷発言は
米国への憧れるのを止めましょう。憧れてしまった
でした。”野球の先駆者、ハイレベルの米国選手への憧れを一時ストップし
If his teammates needed any more motivation on Tuesday, Ohtani gave it in
a pregame speech.
Standing in the middle of the home clubhouse, Ohtani told the players to stopadmiring their U.S. counterparts. “If you admire them, you can’t surpass them,” he told them. “We came here to surpass them, to reach the top.”
Hours later, after the celebration and the medal ceremony and rounds of
television interviews, Ohtani explained the meaning of his message.
“We want to respect, of course, American baseball, so we do,” he said through an interpreter. “So just looking at the great lineup of great players makes us feel like – how do I say that? I mean, obviously, we have respect, but at the same time, it looks like we might be beaten down. So just forget those kinds of feelings. We’re just even. We have to just beat ‘em.”