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The Dodgers and Royals getting said for
game two of this three game series,

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and we're joined right now by Bobby
widd Junior. Bobby, thanks a lot

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for the time, and welcome to
Los Angeles. Yes, thank you,

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thank you, and happy belated birthday. I guess that was not the greatest

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birthday. You guys did not get
the win, but it was the first

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time you played at Dodgers Stadium.
Did you have a chance to take that

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all in? Yeah, it was. It was pretty special. Just the

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weather out here, the fans,
I think there was almost fifty thousand here

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last night, and just the atmosphere
was great. Stadium is great. It's

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just kind of there's a history here. And so even with my dad playing

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playing here and I think he hit
his one and only home run here,

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so which is pretty special to be
able to kind of play here. And

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yeah, do that. Do you
know who that home run was off of?

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Pretty sure as ishmael Valdez. Oh
yeah, mister blister. He had

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a lot of blisters back in the
day. Yeah, that's awesome. Were

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you here when your dad hit that
homer? No? No, his last

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year was in two thousand and one, and I was born in two thousand,

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So I can't remember what year he
hit the homer, but it was

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before. They might have been nineteen
ninety five or something. Yeah, oh

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man, you're making us all feel
old. Yesterday was Bobby's twenty fourth birthday.

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And I guess when you come to
a stadium like this or Fenway Park

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or Yankee Stadium, there's a lot
of history on this field. Some players

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are not able to really appreciate it. What's the balance there, Yeah,

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it's something huge. You got to
enjoy every moment and just take it all

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in because once your career is done, once baseball is over with, the

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game is going to keep going.
And so really it's just to take it,

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take it all in. That's even
what kind of talk to Dave Roberts

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a little bit just now. You
just said, just take it all in,

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enjoy it, go out, venture
out, and just be where your

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feet are. And so that's pretty
much a big thing for me is just

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to enjoy everything that I do because
you never know when your last day is

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going to be playing baseball, and
once it's done, it's going to keep

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going, So enjoy every moment and
just have a lot of fun. Bobby,

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we know where your feet were last
night in the seventh inning. That

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was one of the most incredible catches
a that I've ever seen, and be

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one of the most incredible baseball IQ
plays I've ever seen. How did you

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have the presence of mind to not
try to make that play by yourself,

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but to find your second basement.
Yeah, it's just one of those reactionary

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plays you just kind of just happens
and then next thing you know, we

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get a double play. And so
yeah, I just knew that try to

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make a play on the ball first
to try to help help our pitchers out.

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And then once that happened, I
knew that if I try to make

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a play towards first, someone's gonna
be there. And I Loften was there

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and he made a great throw and
make it quick transfer and everything got the

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double play, and so it was
great. So it's another case of you

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trusting your teammates that they would be
in the right spot, no doub Yeah,

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one hundred percent. And that's kind
of what we're doing here. We

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do our work where you try to
get prepared each and every day, but

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then we got to pull for each
other. That's how we got to do

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it and just get to the next
guy. And that's our mentality, and

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that's it's it's been working a lot
and just got to keep getting better every

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day. It feels like you're a
rover. I know this is not softball,

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but it feels like the Royals have
three outfielders on the left side.

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You get to a lot of fly
balls, pop ups and shallow left field.

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Yeah, it's just kind of just
try to some of the stuff we

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do in the offseason. Just put
your body in crazy, crazy movements and

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just try to get good jumps on
that. And then I had a little

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bit of a football background. I
was a wide receiver, just going after

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the football and try to catch touchdowns
and so that's baby had something to do

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with it. Just I just want
to try to make plays on the ball.

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Yeah, we saw that it looked
like you were a wide receiver in

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the seventh inning last night. Yeah. Yeah, just those are the fun

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ones for sure. Bobby wit Junior
is our guest driving in. I was

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listening to Buster Only's podcast and he
had JJ McCullough on, and he was

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describing just the conversations you had with
the team on wanting to stay long term

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in Kansas City and it wasn't about
you, it was about the team.

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How are they going to build a
winner? It feels like you guys are

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taking that step this year. Yeah, definitely. That was something that was

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huge that JJ and the whole front
office did and the moves they made,

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the veterans we brought in with the
core group that we have here is a

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lot of fun and we got a
great team here and that is why the

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reason I call this place my home
now. And so it's just one of

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those things where it's just got to
keep getting better every day and just keep

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vibing with the team and enjoy it. We know your name, we know

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your dad, Cavin Bigio's now with
the Dodgers. There seems to be more

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players in Major League Baseball right now
than ever before that had dads that played

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before them. Can you put your
finger on why that is? I don't

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know. I just fell in love
with the game at such a young age,

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and I don't know if it's just
because of how much passion my dad

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has for the game, just because
of he growing up. That's every day

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we had baseball on, We're talking
about baseball, whatever it was, and

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so it's just it's one of those
things where I just loved it ever since

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I was growing up, and I
wanted to follow his footsteps in a way,

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and so that's definitely like a dream
of mine. But then also just

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didn't I was playing at every other
sport too, but baseball was just where

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my heart was at. Shortstop spend
your life, I assume for a very

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long time. Do you have an
appreciation for what Mookie Betts is trying to

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do? Yeah, definitely. It's
it's incredible just to see his work ethic

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that he does to put in the
work even I got a chance, I

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had the opportunity to play with him
and with the WBC whenever. Yeah,

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And so just the work he was
putting in because he knew he wasn't gonna

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be playing short for that team,
but he was just still putting in the

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work because he knew that there was
a chance he'd be playing short last year.

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And then just the work that he
puts in just to become a shortstop.

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And I know, I think he
said on a podcast something that's one

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of the most toughest things ever done. But he's I think doing a great

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job. Did you feel like you
grew a lot as a baseball player,

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being part of that team USA team. Yeah, definitely, just being around

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those guys, seeing their routine,
seeing their work ethic. There are reason

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why those guys are All Stars every
year in the way that they handle themselves,

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They take care of their body,
and just it was great to pick

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their brains and just be a part
of that team. Hey, Bobby Witt

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Junior, way to introduce yourself to
Los Angeles. It was awesome to share

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you with Dodger fans and you certainly
are a champion of a person. So

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thank you for the time. I
really appreciate it. Yes, thank you,

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thank you for having me