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The Valenti Show

Best Of The Tigers on 97.1 The Ticket

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Should the Tigers be "hyper aggressive" at the trade deadline? A World Series-caliber target, if so. Javy Baez is one of the best stories in baseball. Plus, were the fans who got ejected from Comerica Park in the wrong -- or the players? And, we hear from A.J. Hinch.

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0:00.0

All righty. Welcome in on a Tuesday. We've got a lot to talk about and I have to tell you we are going to jump right in because I feel like we were dismissed. We were patronized. We were outright mistreated by Scott the Gator Anderson.

0:14.6

Kenny is my witness. I brought up our opening topic and not only was Gator just not having it, he didn't have the decency to say it to our face.

0:25.4

He said it while sauntering out the studio.

0:27.8

So I'm going to bring this up to open because I didn't think what we said was in any way inflammatory.

0:33.5

But Mr. R. L. Beard article on ESPN today.

0:38.6

Detroit Tigers. 40 and 21 Tigers, your first place Tigers.

0:43.2

Congratulations.

0:44.0

You clubbed a baby seal last night.

0:45.7

I mean, the White Sox are helpless.

0:47.6

The official tiger of this show, three home runs.

0:51.7

What did I tell you?

0:52.4

Kerry Bonds, get him on that leadoff spot.

0:54.7

He's going to be just fine.

0:55.8

I thought it was fairly.

0:57.7

No.

0:58.7

He's the face of the franchise.

1:00.3

Okay.

1:00.7

I wanted to bring this up because as fun as this is, they still have needs.

1:05.8

And when you get to this spot, you're trying to build a monolith.

1:09.6

You're trying to build a team that can win the

1:11.1

world series. Everybody, obviously, you need a high leverage reliever. Why? Because I want another

1:18.3

weapon back there. And I just, I want AJ to be able to pull whatever levers he wants and know,

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