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The Valenti Show

HOUR 3: More Pistons Calls, CFB Blitz, CFP Expansion Hypothetical

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A few more of the people got in on the Pistons conversation to begin the third hour. Then, the guys did a CFB Blitz and dished on what a CFP expansion would look like for 7 and 8-win teams.

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0:00.0

We're going to get right to these Piston calls.

0:01.9

But one brief note, I'll say it again with the precursor. It's April. I'm not going to go crazy. But yeah, that Tiger Bullpen kind of stinks. Not good. I mean, you're talking about an ERA near five. You're talking about a whip of one five. They don't strike anybody out. No. It's early. They don't cover first base either. I know, I know.

0:23.0

I know.

0:23.3

Look, last night was game one for the Pistons. You draw a line through that. You're going to have four or five games like that. If you're a really good ball club, you're going to have what you just draw a line through it. Last night was a debacle. But they got to figure some things out. The bullpen's been disappointing.

0:38.4

But it's, I'm just, I try to just take it easy.

0:40.6

Oh, line through the game for the Tigers.

0:42.2

Okay.

0:42.5

Yeah.

0:42.8

Like, I was like, wait, what? Well, no, I mean, I just, I don't have a choice now. You know, it's game two. I mean, whatever happened in game one, what didn't happen, I draw a line through it.

0:52.1

I respect the Pistons enough to just say, okay.

0:55.5

They bleeped around and found out.

0:57.7

All right.

0:58.1

Show me. one, what didn't happen, I draw a line through it. I respect the pistons enough to just say, okay.

0:55.5

They bleeped around and found out.

0:57.7

All right, show me tonight.

0:58.9

Because if they don't, if you just, Rico, maybe some people think it's a crack-headed opinion.

1:05.7

But that's fine.

1:07.7

If you don't go out and play really well tonight, yeah, my opinion of the series changes.

1:12.5

You could still win, and I'd still be nervous.

1:14.9

It makes me feel like everything that you did in the regular season was Fugasey.

1:19.0

It wasn't real.

1:20.7

That's the quiet part out loud what people really don't want to say.

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