In addition, at the time of the breakup announcement in front of cameras when asked if he had a message for Yamamoto he said, "now the team is gone!", but when repealing the announcement he suddenly changed his tone, saying, "why you don't come out one night when there're no fans wearing a uniform with no number and hang out with us just as Yamamoto". In an interview with the show "Waido! Sukuranburu" ("Wide! Scramble") he mentioned the possibility of Yamamoto returning at first as a ball boy with the uniform number 0. However, he also made large roster changes to the team and commented other times that there was no possibility of Yamamoto's return, causing uncertainty surrounding the team. In January 2007 Yamamoto appeared at a public team workout and personally apologized to Hagimoto. However, Hagimoto made comments to the effect that he had still not forgiven Yamamoto.