"He wanted to cut himself off from the outside world. I was his window with the world of baseball in Taiwan," Chung shares. Although they had always maintained a business relationship after Tsao signed on with MLB, it was during this time that the two gradually became close friends.
「那段時間，他完全不想跟外界聯絡，所有與國內棒球界的聯絡都以我為窗口，」鐘孟文說，也就在這段時間，簽約後原本一直維持著工作上往來的兩人，逐漸成為好朋友。