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Yeah, it looks like he's playing with others emotions and mental states than truly and honestly caring about them. Considering he kept saying how he was going to destroy the Mariners, I think that's the true aim anyway.
And even a hard-nut realist that he is, I guess he realizes that emotions are simply a part of the sport, gambling and confrontations like in sports or otherwise. I guess in his utmost realist sense, emotions are reality.
Also, I guess especially in Japan where higher ups constantly go for the vanilla bowing-head apologies, that kind of line struck a nerve in the Mariners' manager more so than it probably would to westerners.
It's also funny that the way he goaded the manager was sorta like saying to a better 'pay up, it's your fault you lost this bet'. That's basically what it was all about. It was a game and a responsibility. I can see how it would relate to normal codes of morality and honesty as well, but in this case, it's like binding someone to a bet that happens to be a baseball game.
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