Baseball Player Discusses Citizenship Test

Hey, Maggie. The, the, um, the person or the people administering the

citizenship

test, did they... Do they know who you are and what you do for work?

Do they watch the World Series?

No.

You know? No.

Uh, well, uh, we, we started the conversation talking about

obviously my back- my background and all that.

She asked me w- who I work for, and I say Los Angeles Dodgers.

And, and she, she looked up and kinda, like, look at me and say, "Oh, my husband

is a, is a big baseball fan, and he's, he's following." And

I think at that time that, that was when she figured out that I was a, a

baseball player. But, uh, I don't, I don't really know if she knew who I was

or, or what happened last year or, or anything like that.

Um,

I, I actually want it to be that way because I didn't wanna have any

kinda, like,

preference or anything, um, because this process have nothing to do

with

baseball. I feel like as a citizen, as a, as a human

being, I always wanted to be a good person off

the field and

not let my performance inf- influence anything because we all

know, uh, how hard this game can be and how high you can be and h-

how low you can be one day. So I don't wanna be kinda, like,

judged by my

performance on the field. I wanna be judged by the person who I am

and then my

preparation. So, um, I feel like I did good

because I, I got the 100% on all the eight questions

that they

asked me. So I'm proud of myself because of that,

not, not, not

too much about the home run or the World Series that I have

or the rings that I

have. So, um, there's, there's thing in life that

are bigger than just

baseball.