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The Valenti Show

HOUR 2: Tigers' Confounding Thought Process When It Pertains To Skubal

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico spent the second hour discussing their concerns after hearing a report from The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal that highlighted the Tigers' approach depending on the outcome of their arbitration hearing with Tarik Skubal.

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0:00.0

hour number two, good to have you with us. If you have something to say about Michigan, Michigan State, we will happily take your call. We want to mix in some tiger conversation. Here's where we were with Michigan, Michigan State. It's very simple. Michigan's national championship, good, and state isn't. You get the game on your home floor. You can't play that way in the first half. And then you tie the game and then you

0:21.5

hurl yourselves down a flight of stairs. As far as two coaches go, Bulte has put a sock in it. I don't want to hear Dusty doing this all shucks victim routine again. Well, no, there were a lot of dangerous plays with the game. Dusty stop it. And for Tom, Tom, you can't cry about officiating when your team can't throw it in the ocean.

0:39.2

Just stop.

0:40.4

There doesn't always have to be more.

0:43.1

The game was what it was.

0:44.8

Michigan is better, like unequivocally better.

0:48.6

And they have the best player on the floor.

0:51.5

Yeah, because if you keep going like this, when you play again in March,

0:54.6

you're going to end up seeing basically the bottom of the benches in the game because everybody's

0:59.5

going to file out. If you're going to keep jockeying, the refs are going to call every little

1:02.9

tiki-tack there. Correct. And guess what? Sure. Are there a couple of weird things both ways? Yeah,

1:08.2

welcome to a rivalry game. Like, can we stop, please? Yes. Yeah.

1:12.9

So, again, nothing overly provocative for, yes, did we have the portal conversation about

1:19.1

state? Yeah, it's more relevant is once again, they are light on shooting and light on NBA talent.

1:26.6

And you're not going to win a national championship without NBA talent.

1:31.0

Or now in the portal era, a couple of 23, 24-year-old hitters.

1:36.0

I was about to say not necessarily NBA talent.

1:39.8

How can you say this nicely, almost NBA reject talent?

1:42.9

Not good enough for the NBA.

1:44.9

NBA light.

1:46.2

NBA light, G-League talent.

1:48.5

How about that?

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