It was the exclamation points to a decade and an era.

It's game one of the 88 world series, A's at Dodgers.

This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey,

and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist.

I'm your host Thomas Emmerich, and my guest is Mike Madrid.

Check out his show with Chuck Rocha, The Latino Vote Podcast, his book, The Latino

Century, and his substack, The Great Transformation.

Recently, you were in D.C. speaking at Georgetown, did a CNN spot talking about the Super Bowl halftime show.

Today, back on home turf, Dodger country in the 1980s, Ventura County born and raised, parents immigrated from Mexico.

Let's hit play at the start of that decade.

How did Fernando Valenzuela's 81 title run with Los Angeles play to your origins

and the origins of your sports fandom?

That's such a great question.

And thanks again for having me.

This is a fantastic opportunity to kind of peel back some of the layers on my own

journey with baseball and love the Dodgers in my career trajectory, life trajectory, really. So thanks.

Look, in 1981, I was 10 years old, which is sort of that magic era of sports, right,

for a young boy kind of watching his home team. And remember at this time, Los Angeles is undergoing some really significant demographic transformation.

Latino voices were starting to pop up here and there.

The population was increasing quite dramatically.

And for the first time, this 19, 20-year-old kid from Sonora Mexico you know I think his town is a village of

15 people you know comes on to the scene and Sonora is where my grandmother is from that's where my

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