ok so my biases are obvious by the avatar to the left of this post, but Vladdy's game tonight reminded me for whatever reason very much of another spring game in New York City nearly 35 years ago, when Raines in front of a national audience (Vin Scully with the call) went off with one of the best games I'll ever remember
https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/may-...turn-to-expos/
anyways I had that thought in my head as I was driving around listening to the bottom of the 9th and then the postgame through the MLB network radio feed. the guys on MLB postgame (so not the Jays guys) were just gushing about Vlad and made the exact point that if that was the 80s and that game was the MLB game of the week the whole nation would have been watching and talking about Vlad for a long time- they went on to compare to like a Mark Fidrych start in the 70s (or I suppose Fernando in the 80s) just a performance that would have captured a whole nation (continent I guess) in a different era. high praise and really hard to argue