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The Valenti Show

HOUR 1: What Is the Biggest Tigers-Related "What-If"?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico start off the show following the Tigers' 4th straight win asking what the biggest "what-if" surrounding the team is. They go back and forth on the topic before opening it up to the people with your calls and ticket texts. Then, David joins for an "In Football Today".

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. Let's get to business. Welcome aboard and this is one of the shows you dread doing as a radio host. You hate doing shows like this.

0:11.0

Because if you play it one way, I think you're a delusional

0:16.9

shill and I think if you play it the other way, rightfully people are going

0:21.8

to go, why are you bleeping on my shoes. So I think there's one way for us to play this

0:27.3

So today the Tigers one another meaningless baseball game because their season is over.

0:33.0

Hobby!

0:34.1

They're buried, I'm ignoring you.

0:35.5

They're buried five games under 500.

0:38.6

There are eight games out in the wild card.

0:40.8

And the sweep of the Mariners could have and should have meant something.

0:44.0

But they lost the right to that because their season got off the rails.

0:49.0

So Rico and I talked about this.

0:52.0

The way to play this today is the following.

0:54.0

What is the biggest what if with this team?

0:57.0

What is the thing that if it were different, we'd be able to take the air today

1:01.0

while you guys are driving home from the

1:03.2

ballpark and talk about how meaningful a sweep of the Mariners was or maybe they

1:09.0

had moved into the wild card or further to wild card lead.

1:14.1

What is the biggest what if that would have turned this all around?

1:17.8

And I know all smarm aside there's not one.

1:21.2

This isn't gonna be a yell fest about well du, they should have signed a bat. No, I think it's more nuanced. I think there are other options. But I struggle. I've said this to Rico. The guys know it. And I think you guys have listened to this show long enough in every iteration of it I

1:37.2

Struggle with once team is bad and out of it you can kindly from a professional level not humanity I'm saying

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