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The Valenti Show

Discussing Tony Garcia's Sit Down Interview With Warde Manuel

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Rico and Riger switch topics to break down the Detroit Free Press' Tony Garcia's exclusive interview with Michigan AD Warde Manuel.

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0:00.0

97 won the ticket that was fun little who said it I also enjoyed by the numbers here's the deal

0:06.9

We spent a lot of the show talking about the unnamed rival GM front office person that called Brad Holmes

0:15.2

arrogant. But in the free press there was also another big story. We got to bring this up.

0:20.3

Yeah. And we'll do it little Tiger Baseball in the five o'clock hour. I want to say this. Yeah. It's not often that you

0:28.0

give props to a writer. Yeah. Because a lot of writers just won't do what this person did.

0:34.0

Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press.

0:35.0

Great job.

0:36.0

Okay?

0:37.0

He's doing a three-part interview, sit down with Michigan Athletic Director Ward Manual.

0:42.0

He's actually asking questions that I want to hear.

0:48.0

It's not softball city, it's not, hey Ward, you're a great guy. He's asking questions that we've been wondering for years and

0:56.9

Ward is uncomfortable with the questions which leads me to believe that's a good

1:01.4

reporter right there. I mean it did seem just reading the back and forth you could catch it in the free but it's not even behind the paywall.

1:07.3

It did seem like at times it seemed contentious which is good considering both sides might have got fired up but I mean the

1:14.4

fact that hold on I'm sorry rigor the fact that he finally was the only guy

1:21.9

that I know who actually asked him what the heck was going on with Xavier Simpson and your wife's car.

1:28.0

And Warren didn't like this and he's going on.

1:31.0

It was my son and I told him him but you've borrowed a buddy's car

1:34.6

before and I told him my son never to do this. Gep Ward you still didn't.

1:38.6

Wort didn't answer a lot of questions. He kind of skated it to me if I was worried man. I don't even know why you did this interview.

1:45.8

Kudos for Tony for asking the tough questions that nobody for some reason Ann Arbor wants to ask.

1:52.0

Tony did. He asked him about, dude, your program, I'm paraphrasing, your program's a mess right now. You got a whole bunch, a long list of

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