“Everyone around me is so concerned about me and that, in turn, makes me concerned about everything,” he said.
Kuroda shook his head and laughed.
“I always thought I wouldn’t mind dying on a baseball field,” he said.
“But as I was being carried away, I thought, ‘I don’t want to die.’ I thought that there would be nothing sadder than for me to die in my uniform, without my family there to see me off.”
Kuroda laughed again, this time more loudly.
Told that he had a surprisingly good sense of humor when reflecting on the potentially life-changing event, he smiled and replied, “Don’t you think so?”
You’re nuts, Hiroki. And therefore, you are awesome.
