Satou Hikaru, the transfer student from the United States, is actually the son of Satou Takuya, the eternal friend and Major League teammate of Daigo's father, Goro!
Right away, Hikaru asks Daigo about advice for joining a local baseball team, but being Daigo, being completely off-put by baseball, gives Hikaru a rude answer.
That evening, Daigo's mother, Kaoru, receives a request for help from the Dolphins' manager, Fujii: "We don't have enough players for the practice match this weekend, can we borrow Daigo?"
That's why I've been wanting to ask you
why you quit baseball for a long time now.
...لهذا كنت أريد أن أسألك
Darum wollte ich dich
das schon lange fragen.
Por eso quería preguntarte
desde hace tiempo.
Por eso quería preguntarte
algo desde hace tiempo.
Du coup, j’ai toujours voulu
te poser la question.
Perciò è da un bel pezzo 
che vorrei farti questa domanda.
Por isso quero te perguntar
algo há muito tempo.
Поэтому я давно хотела тебя спросить...