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asked you a second ago you were 18 years old in 1981. Yeah.

What do you remember about Fernando when he popped on the scene?

Because I was 10, and I remember it, and I remember it incredibly fondly, but as somebody that's a little bit older, what do you remember?

It's almost impossible to describe Fernando mania to people who didn't live it.

Like, like, Mason, DeMarcoco both were not in California at that point.

No, I was. You were in California in 81.

Oh, okay. No, I was in Toledo, Ohio. It was in every way a cultural phenomenon. Here's one way to

explain it. For now, go back and look this up. It's, I'm not embellishing here.

The Dodgers would play a game on a Tuesday and draw 17,000 people.

Fernando would pitch on a Wednesday and they would draw 54,000 people.

Oh my God.

He was absolute lightning in a bottle. As a 20-year-old, he won both

the Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year, and I think he's the only one to ever do it.

Wow. And he had this crazy wind-up, and he would point towards the sky with his eyes.

And you had Jaime Harine describing it.

You had Vin Scully describing it.

And you had every Mexican baseball fan in the city get caught up in the fever.

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