meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Valenti Show

FULL SHOW: Thursday, February 5th

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 136 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Valenti and Rico spent the opening hour with a discussion about the Tigers' signing of Framber Valdez to a massive 3-year deal before reacting in real time to the highly anticipated news that Tarik Skubal won the arbitration battle. They rolled with these topics up until the third hour, where they got in some thoughts about the Pistons doing nothing ahead of the NBA Trade Deadline. Then, the guys wrapped up the show with their final thoughts and your final calls on the two main topics.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

People, I have to tell you, hold please.

0:05.0

I mean, my God, what a relief today is.

0:09.3

Rico, you look great.

0:11.3

I want to explain relief versus joy.

0:16.3

I mean this.

0:17.2

I am so effing relieved that Scott Harris and Chris Illich and the Tigers put their ass out the car window and took a risk.

0:28.5

And whether you don't or do love or in the middle on Framber Valdez, the whole reason its's relief is, look at what this offseason has been.

0:40.0

I mean, RICO, we sit here every day.

0:42.4

And you fight this battle where, first of all, at my current stage of doing this for 25 years,

0:48.7

21 of which has been in Detroit, I'm so tired of being tired.

0:54.3

I'm so tired of being angry at teams and ownership groups and GMs, the Coney Island,

0:59.5

which is a brilliant bit.

1:01.5

Yet I hate it because it's true.

1:04.9

We have, I have begged, please, someone, get up from the table at Coney and let's go chase

1:10.7

this damn thing. the scoble shows

1:14.4

are exhausting they're exhausting for you the listener they're exhausting for us no none of us are

1:19.5

digging ditches i'm saying you're tired of hearing about it i'm tired of talking about it and we

1:25.1

we just had the tigers from the clouds go out and I think enter themselves into

1:35.0

true World Series contention. And again, I'm not enamored with Framber Valdez. I think he's good.

1:43.6

And the point is, there's no cap.

1:45.5

Right.

1:45.9

It's not my money.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.